A combination of genetic and environmental factors, including high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, education, and smoking, are major risk factors for dementia.Researchers at University College London (UCL) explored how the prevalence of these risk factors changed over time.The team...
New Delhi, A new artificial intelligence-based model could predict the onset of Alzheimer's disease by analyzing an individual's speech, developers said.According to the researchers, trained with audio recordings of patients with mild cognitive impairment (early stages of memory loss), the...
Alzheimer's is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder, which constitutes a serious public health problem.It leads to memory loss, cognitive decline, and inability to perform daily tasks.Experts explained that obesity and smoking are the main risk factors for vascular dementia and can...
New Delhi, A new study has provided genetic evidence linking a common condition of the brain's blood vessels to dementia and Alzheimer's disease.Known as white matter hyperintensity (WMH), the condition characterized by lesions in the brain, is a common feature of brain small vessel disease...
Dementia usually appears as people age. Symptoms include repeatedly calling children despite already doing so, forgetting what they had for lunch by the evening, and not recognizing familiar people.Many children consider these behaviors to be stubbornness and become frustrated with their...
According to Dr. Rajeev Mehta, senior psychiatrist, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, it is a type of dementia that affects thinking, memory and day-to-day behavior due to conditions that damage blood vessels and disrupt blood flow in the brain. Does."The burden of cognitive disease impairment due to...
Sheffield, Two people suffering from Alzheimer's claim to have overcome the disease through simple lifestyle changes.Dementia and Alzheimer's have been one of the leading killers in the UK for the last ten years, accounting for 11.4% of deaths in 2022. Although new drugs can slow the...
In Queensland, dementia is the second leading cause of death for Australians over the age of 65. More than 421,000 Australians are currently living with dementia and this figure is expected to almost double over the next 30 years.There is ongoing public discussion about whether dementia should...
New Delhi: According to a new research, about one teaspoon of olive oil per day reduces the risk of death due to dementia by about 30 percent, especially in women.Replacing five grams of mayonnaise and margarine ('vegetable') with the same amount of olive oil per day was found to reduce the...
Adelaide, “Childhood” and “dementia” are two words we wish we didn’t have. But sadly, approximately 1,400 Australian children and young people currently suffer from untreated childhood dementia.Broadly speaking, childhood dementia is caused by any one of more than 100 rare genetic disorders...