Columnist Helen Thomson investigates the neurological benefits of saunas, and how heat therapy can have anti-inflammatory effects throughout the body ...
Background:Dementia represents a major global public health challenge, affecting over 55 million people worldwide and projected to increase substantially in ...
Music therapy can help lift the spirits and ease depression in people with dementia, a new evidence review has found. Findings suggest that music-based therapy probably improves depressive symptoms ...
When J.L. Gallese’s father entered the later stages of dementia, music became a regular element of his care. There were a few LPs of old TV show theme songs that he loved, and they played on repeat ...
New research from Case Western Reserve University was recently heralded as a big step forward in the fight to not only slow but reverse the effects of ...
New RNA-targeted therapy can halt the progression of a specific type of childhood dementia in mice and holds potential to reverse some of the detrimental effects of this rare disease. Scientists from ...
These findings — from a blood test to improvements in drug delivery — may lead to better diagnosis and treatment of the ...
"Life is taken away from these children before they even have a chance to live it," says Megan Kempf of her two children, who ...
Hormone therapy in older women with breast cancer was associated with a reduced risk of subsequent dementia, a retrospective study of Medicare patients suggested. Breast cancer patients who received ...
Menopause hormone therapy does not appear to increase the risk of dementia, according to a new study. The major review of prior research has been undertaken by University College London researchers ...
Dementia is often associated with memory loss and old age. However, the disease can also present itself in other ways in ...