Improving your cardiorespiratory fitness through regular exercise may be a key strategy in preventing dementia, regardless of ...

Staying fit is one of the best ways to lower the risk of dementia — even for those with a genetic predisposition to the condition.

The following is a summary of “Prevalence of Pathogenic Variants and Eligibility Criteria for Genetic Testing in Patients Who ...

While many risk factors you can’t control come into play, such as genetics and family history, there’s one you can. And ...

Dementia with Lewy bodies is the third most common disease that causes dementia. Both risk genes and faulty genes can be involved in dementia with Lewy bodies. Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is ...

Vascular dementia is the second most common type of dementia. Most cases of vascular dementia are not caused by directly inherited faulty genes. Vascular dementia is caused by reduced blood flow to ...

Researchers used mice with nine different genetic backgrounds to identify factors influencing eye aging, paving the way for eye-based diagnostics for neurodegenerative diseases.

Genes play a role in whether someone gets Alzheimer's, but new research from Northeastern University psychology and ...

The researchers did find that the man has nine genetic variants that weren’t present in his relatives who had the PSEN2 mutation and early dementia. Six of the variants have never before been ...

People who carry a certain variation of this repeated DNA sequence have more than double the risk (2.2 times higher)of ...

In a novel theory, scientists at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute propose a unifying explanation for the ...