Smoking could predispose people to dementia, not protect them as has been suggested in the past.
Researchers believe the number of people with dementia may quadruple by 2040, underlining the importance of better understanding the condition.
Scientists say the findings, published in the journal Molecular Neurodegeneration, suggest the ravages of dementia "might be slowed or avoided through healthy eating".
Red and orange, with warm feeling, possess the actions of making people excited and joyful. The colors are applicable to depression, depressive psychosis, lethargy, dementia, etc.
Doctors and patients' groups said they were "horrified" by the use of NHS resources for relationship advice when patients with cancer and dementia were being denied treatment they desperately needed.
More than half the inmates have some form of dementia.
That could be an early sign of dementia. You know it runs in the family.
Studies have linked larger waist sizes to higher risk for heart attack, cancer, diabetes, dementia and even incontinence.
“The cause of dementia is not vitamin D deficiency, ” said David Llewellyn, a research associate at Cambridge University and the study’s lead author.
Standard light microscopes don't allow researchers to look into the interior of the living brain, where memories are formed and diseases such as dementia and cancer can take their toll.
But the onset of dementia invites no ceremony, no grieving.
The treatment could one day help people who suffer from memory loss due to dementia, stroke or brain injury.
She was obedient and quiet in front of Mrs. Luo, who, like everybody else, believed that Teacher Fei's mother had long been lost in her own world of dementia.
Then, his mind declined into dementia. He died soon after.
Alzheimer's Disease: Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia, and the disease most people associate with memory loss.
With the specter of Alzheimer's disease or other types of dementia threatening an aging American society, researchers are urgently looking for ways to determine who is going to develop such illnesses.
Having a big head may help protect against the worst ravages of dementia, say researchers.
If we can delay the onset of dementia by five years, we can halve the number of people who will die from the disease.
So far there is not even a national estimate of the burden of dementia.
Caregiver training on dementia.
This means giving support and recognising the needs and interests of both the person with dementia and their carers, whose lives are often bound together, albeit in difficult and stressful conditions.
Of the sample, 350 had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease or vascular dementia and a further 114 had possible dementia.
That is not a message of despair, though, because the length of time someone suffers from dementia is thus reduced and their healthy life prolonged.
This checklist, the researchers reported, stratified subjects into those with low, moderate, or high risk of developing dementia.
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