Providing a different cutoff point on the Mini-Mental State Exam, or MMSE, a 30-question questionnaire commonly used to suggest a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s, may identify more college-educated adults with early disease, a new study suggest.

Researchers have identified a gene that may raise the risk of getting late-onset Alzheimer’s...

Getting blood pressure under control appears to be an important step for reducing heart disease and stroke in the elderly...

Women over age 90 are significantly more likely to have dementia compared to men in their 90s...

Heavy drinkers and heavy smokers develop Alzheimer’s disease years earlier than people with Alzheimer’s who do not drink or smoke heavily, according to new research.v

So-called “anticholinergic” medicines for motion sickness, urinary incontinence and other conditions may cause older people to experience greater decline in their thinking skills than people not taking the drugs.

The fear and anxiety that accompanies a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease can understandably cause patients to become depressed.

An imaging agent developed by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center that attaches to brain areas damaged by Alzheimer’s disease may allow doctors to diagnose Alzheimer’s at an earlier stage.

There may be multiple benefits for those with dementia to getting a diagnosis.

If both of your parents have been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, you are at increased risk of developing the disease as well.

Alzheimer's like problems may be due to dementia from Parkinson’s disease, the second most common degenerative nerve ailment after Alzheimer’s.

Stress hormones linked to diabetes and memory problems in animal studies.

Stroke risk factors linked to cognitive problems in older Americans.

Those with less schooling were diagnosed later but with more severe disease.

Communication systems in the healthy brain break down with age.

Relatives of someone with Parkinson’s were found to be at increased risk for dementia.

Hypertension is linked to mild cognitive impairment.

Relatives of someone with Parkinson’s were found to be at increased risk for dementia.

Markers in the blood may signal dementia two to six years before debilitating memory loss.

Hormones tied to stress increased brain defects characteristic of Alzheimer’s.