Memory

Have you heard the one about old Joe, who’s telling his friend Frank about the memory pills his doctor has prescribed? Unfortunately, Joe has forgotten...

Hopefully, you’re already aware that occasional lapses in short-term memory, especially as we age, are common. If you can’t remember where you put your reading...

Your trainer at the gym introduces you to a new member, and five minutes later you realize you’ve completely forgotten their name. You get behind...

At the present time, the three most common forms of dementia…Alzhei­mer’s disease, vascular dementia, and Lewy Body dementia…have no cure. But researchers are working on...

Lewy Body Dementia (LBD), sometimes called Dementia with Lewy Bod­ies, is the third most common form of dementia (after Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia), affecting...

Alzheimer’s disease is the best-known and most common type of dementia. The second most common form is called vascular dementia. Whereas Alz­heimer’s is principally marked...

Alzheimer’s is a complex disease driven by many different factors, some of them modifiable (such as diet and exercise) and others non-modifiable. Genetic makeup is...

As we learn more and more about Alzheimer’s disease, the picture that emerges becomes increasingly complex. We understand today that the dis­ease has no single...

Most people have heard of amyloid plaque and understand that it has some­thing to do with Alzheimer’s disease. But what is it exactly, and what...

If you were to think of cognition as a linear continuum, you might imagine, at one end, someone with a perfect memory and highly functional...

It’s a common experience for people of a certain age to wonder, after walk­ing into a room, just what it was they’d gone in there...

People often use the terms “Alzheimer’s disease” and “dementia” interchange­ably, as if they were the same thing. In fact, Alzheimer’s is just one form of...