A new large-scale study scrutinizing psychiatric prescribing finds clinicians continue to give high-risk drugs to Medicare dementia patients—most of the time with no documented justification at all.

Researchers announced on Monday that a randomised controlled trial -- considered the gold standard for medical research -- ...

New Dementia Australia data shows dementia is claiming around 50 Australian lives each day, with deaths rising sharply over ...

Most of us know dementia – a broad term for several disorders involving declines in memory, language and thinking – can severely affect daily life. But dementia is now the leading cause of death for ...

HOLLY Nayler was just days away from her third birthday when she suffered her first seizure. It was the earliest sign of a rare form of childhood dementia, a disease doctors would later diagnose ...

I talk to a lot of people about dementia; that’s a natural consequence of my work. A substantial minority of those people say that if they were diagnosed with dementia, they'd consider suicide. Since ...

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy has long been discussed as a possible driver of dementia, but proving that link has been ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah man who was spared execution this fall after developing dementia during his 37 years on death row died Wednesday of apparent natural causes, according to the state’s ...