The former talk show host, 60, was assigned a court-ordered guardian after being diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia — a degenerative disease that causes memory loss.

A 72-year-old man with a 6-month history of cognitive impairment and visual hallucination presented to an emergency room after repeated falls a few days ago. His wife felt that he had been slow in ...

A new study from Karolinska Institutet and Mayo Clinic has revealed important insights into brain degeneration in dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). This research, published in JAMA Neurology ...

A few years ago, a close cisgender male friend in a heterosexual marriage began identifying as queer. All of his romantic experiences have been with women. Through therapy, however, he concluded that ...

Globally, about 55 million people suffer from dementia, with 70% of these cases linked to Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's is a type of degenerative dementia, which means it gradually worsens over ...

Music is not just a source of entertainment. It could also improve the mood and well-being of people suffering from senile dementia.

Language dysfunction (in the absence of memory impairment) can be a presenting feature of a degenerative dementia. A brief language assessment can identify the language issues. Aphasia may be a ...

Age-related macular degeneration, or AMD, is a common eye condition and also a leading cause of ... While research has ...

The most common in the UK are age-related macular degeneration, glaucoma, and cataracts. Disease related vision loss – where another disease leads to someone developing vision loss e.g. diabetic ...