Excess levels of a mineral responsible for healthy blood and brain function may raise the risk of Parkinson's and dementia, a ...

Women with Parkinson's disease may be more vulnerable to Alzheimer's-related changes in the brain than men, according to new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On top of living with Parkinson’s disease, receiving a diagnosis of dementia can be especially traumatic for patients and their ...

AI helped researchers develop an experimental blood test that might let doctors diagnose overlapping dementias.

About 500,000 people in the U.S. have been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease (PD), and that number is expected to double by 2040. While many of these patients have no cognitive impairment, others ...

Researchers from Denmark have uncovered strong evidence that depression often appears years before Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementia. The team, led by first author Christopher Rohde, analyzed ...

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Parkinson's disease dementia may occur less frequently than previously thought. The estimated risk of dementia increased with disease duration. Age, male sex, and lower educational level raised ...

Deep-brain stimulation of a novel brain region can be safely performed in patients with Parkinson's disease dementia, and although it may not improve cognition, it does appear to have benefits on ...

Most people think of dementia as a condition affecting memory and older people, but in 15 per cent of instances, this is not ...

NEW YORK, Aug. 7 (UPI) --People with Parkinson's disease fear developing dementia, but their risk may be less than once believed, or it could strike later than expected in the movement disorder's ...