Relying on clinical symptoms of memory loss to diagnose Alzheimer's disease may miss other forms of dementia caused by Alzheimer's that don't initially affect memory, reports a new Northwestern ...

Occasional forgetfulness is normal, but persistent memory loss may signal dementia or Alzheimer’s disease. With rising cases ...

Experts explain why occasional forgetfulness is common—but persistent memory loss could signal depression, mild cognitive ...

When we hear the word “dementia,” most of us think of elderly people having memory problems — they don’t remember the names of their dear ones, where they put the house keys, or whether they paid the ...

As a primary care physician, I often have older patients come to me worried about dementia. They tell me they've been forgetting names or where they put their keys, and they're concerned that such ...

At the age of 22, Andre Yarham was diagnosed with young-onset dementia (YOD) — the youngest person in the UK to receive that diagnosis. He died about a year later, in December 2025, at the age of 24.

During the quiet hours of sleep, your brain is hard at work. It sends out tiny electrical signals that ripple across networks deep in your mind. For years, scientists knew these patterns told stories ...

Problems with energy-producing cellular structures called mitochondria have previously been linked to neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's. Before now, it wasn't clear if this was a cause or ...