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Moments of clarity in the fog of dementia - Mayo Clinic News Network
The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association investigated lucid episodes in people living with later stages of dementia. Learn more.
Mayo Clinic's AI tool identifies 9 dementia types, including Alzheimer ...
Mayo Clinic researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence tool that helps clinicians identify nine types of dementia.
Mayo Clinic Minute: Dietary supplements don't reduce dementia risk, but ...
Do dietary supplements reduce your risk of dementia and improve brain health? The Global Council on Brain Health says they don't. In a new report, the organization recommends that most people not take dietary supplements for this purpose. In addition, the Global Council on Brain Health, which is a collaborative organization associated with the AARP, […]
Alzheimer’s and dementia: When to stop driving - Mayo Clinic News Network
Safe driving requires attention, concentration, and the ability to follow particular steps and rules. You also need to be able to make quick and appropriate decisions. For people with Alzheimer's disease or other disorders causing dementia, these skills will decline over time. Eventually, driving will not be an option. The decision to stop driving may […]
What is frontotemporal dementia? - Mayo Clinic News Network
Frontotemporal degeneration (FTD) is a group of neurologic disorders associated with changes in personality, behavior, language or movement.
Researchers identify new criteria to detect rapidly progressive dementia
Mayo Clinic researchers have identified new scoring criteria allowing for the detection of treatable forms of rapidly progressive dementia.
Signs and symptoms of Lewy body dementia - Mayo Clinic News Network
Lewy body dementia, also known as dementia with Lewy bodies, is the second most common type of progressive dementia after Alzheimer's disease dementia. Protein deposits, called Lewy bodies, develop in nerve cells in the brain regions involved in thinking, memory and movement (motor control). Lewy body dementia causes a progressive decline in mental abilities. People […]
Mayo Clinic Q and A: Lewy body dementia and Alzheimer’s disease — what ...
In Lewy body dementia, Lewy bodies are found in the deep structures of the brain that control movement, as well as in the middle and outer structures involved in emotion, behavior, judgment and awareness. Many patients with Lewy body dementia also have overlapping Alzheimer’s disease.
Mayo Clinic scientists define new type of memory loss in older adults
Scientists define new type of memory loss in older adults. It's called Limbic-predominant Amnestic Neurodegenerative Syndrome, or LANS.
Mayo Clinic Minute: The hearing loss and dementia connection
But he says hearing loss can start a cascade of health issues, including making symptoms of dementia worse. "If you have hearing loss, now you're devoting more and more of your cognitive ability to trying to understand what's being said. My brain is working overtime to sort the words out and understand the sentences.
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