"What is good for the heart is good for the brain," one researcher says.

A new study finds that obesity and high blood pressure may directly cause dementia, not just increase the risk.

Some seniors may carry a protective gene that keeps their minds decades younger.

Researchers monitored the activity of around 2,000 adults for three years. A new study from the American Academy of Neurology ...

It’s never too late to start. With dementia cases expected to increase over the next 25 years, new research has found a way ...

High body mass index (BMI) could cause a higher risk of vascular-related dementia (a combination of vascular + unspecified ...

Medical News Today looks at three key studies and their key findings that highlight and further confirm the connection between how poor sleep increases dementia risk.

A study by Universitat Rovira i Virgili finds that prioritizing low glycemic index foods, including most fruits and whole grains, may lower the risk of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia.

If you are like a lot of people, you might be anxious about the risk of getting dementia as you age. The lifetime risk of ...

UVA Health’s director of hospital epidemiology points to research linking the shingles vaccine to a 20% drop in dementia risk ...

Over 7 years, hearing aid prescription did not improve cognition but was associated with a significant reduction in the risk for dementia in older adults with moderate hearing loss.

A Stanford AI model trained on nearly 600,000 hours of sleep data can assess future risk for dementia, heart disease and more ...