These healthy habits benefit your whole body—including your brain—and may help contribute to lower dementia risk over time.

Older adults who received a single dose of the recombinant shingles vaccine known as Shingrix had a 24% lower chance of being ...

Impaired memory and thinking are the most common symptoms associated with a dementia diagnosis. But noncognitive symptoms can ...

An experimental blood test could identify those at highest risk years before they start experiencing cognitive decline.

Reproductive lifespans among women were associated with cognitive outcomes, according to a study presented at the Alzheimer’s ...

As you age, maintaining a strong social life doesn't require constant plans or having a huge friend group. Often, it comes down to small, intentional habits.

Scientists say processing of music stays intact for a long time for people suffering from Alzheimer's and other degenerative ...

Now the FDA has cleared two Alzheimer’s blood test options that could reshape how doctors approach cognitive decline, potentially catching the disease earlier and cutting the barriers that have kept ...

Nearly 7 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s disease and that number is projected to rise to nearly 13 million.

Blood-based testing sidesteps much of that. The tests measure proteins in a routine blood sample that correlate with the presence of amyloid plaques or tau tangles, the two hallmarks of Alzheimer’s ...

A p-tau217 blood test predicted a 78% chance of cognitive decline within 10 years for symptom-free adults with very high ...

Even moderate amounts of walking may help protect brain function and slow changes linked to Alzheimer’s disease.