Frontotemporal Dementia: Everything you need to know
What is frontotemporal dementia? Are all dementias the same? This post explains everything you need to know about frontotemporal dementia. Understanding why people with this […]
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Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI): Learn how to identify it
“My mind isn’t as sharp as it once was,” mutters the elderly man in conversation. Forgetting a name or date is hardly a cause for […]
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Lewy Body Dementia: Everything you need to know
Have you heard of Lewy body dementia? Probably not. I was unaware of this neurological disorder myself until a doctor said those life-changing words to […]
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Parkinson’s Disease Dementia: Two related diseases
Parkinson’s disease dementia. Both are words that, when alone, provoke a sense of dismay. Together, they can be catastrophic without a capable medical team and […]
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Parkinson’s Treatment: How To Manage This Disease
Parkinson’s Treatment. The name usually evokes images of tremoring hands, countless medical appointments, or the doom and gloom fate of disease progression. Despite these negative […]
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Senescence: Aging Cells That Drain Youth?
What is senescence? How does it affect the cells in organisms? How does it affect health? Should humans accept senescence as a natural form of […]
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Types of exercise: Different types of exercise and their benefits
Types of exercise. Cue the groans! This blog post is all about the benefits of different types of exercise. Yes! You read that correctly! Although […]
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Rare Mental Disorders: Here is a list to the oddest mental disorders
Mental health disorders have gotten a bad reputation in the past, but as new information is being discovered, we’re able to learn more and not […]
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What Is Early Onset Dementia? Signs And Symptoms
Early onset dementia. Imagine you are at your friend’s 50th birthday gathering and you forget everyone’s name, how you got there and where you are? […]
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Vascular Dementia: Causes, Symptoms and Prevention
The term dementia is familiar to everyone, however, what is Vascular Dementia? Throughout this article will explain what is this type of dementia, its causes, […]
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What is Echolalia?: Its Purpose and What It Means
Echolalia is a natural part of language acquisition. “It’s a beautiful day!” said the mother, to which the child echoed “It’s a beautiful day!” Have […]
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Are You a Mozart or a Macklemore? : Ways Music Helps the Brain
“Without music, life would be a mistake”. Friedrich Nietzche may have been skeptical about a lot of things, but the power of music was not […]
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How To Communicate With Someone Who Has Advanced Dementia: Validation Therapy
Do you not understand why you have to continuously repeat the same thing to your family member with dementia? Does it bother you that they […]
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Dementia Home Care: What You Need To Know
Dementia Home Care: What You Need To Know So what do you do if one of your loved ones has been diagnosed with dementia or […]
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Brain changes due to poor sleep increases stroke and dementia risks in seniors
Brain changes due to poor sleep increases stroke and dementia risks in seniors Sleep disturbance in elderly persons is associated with brain changes such as […]
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Eye and smell tests may detect Alzheimer’s onset
Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia, is a progressive brain condition that damages and destroys brain cells. It is the sixth leading cause […]
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A protein, normally active in fetuses, may also protect the neurons in older people.
A protein, normally active in fetuses, may also protect the neurons in older people. Along with symptoms of cognitive decline, Alzheimer’s disease patients often have […]
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Brain scans may one day be used to predict dementia
Brain scans may one day be used to predict dementia. Using brain scans, researchers were able to monitor mental decline over a two-year period in […]
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Mysterious brain clumps behind dementia identified
Mysterious brain clumps behind dementia identified. Certain forms of dementia may be caused by a gene mutation that makes proteins in the brain clump together, […]
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Alzheimer’s patients can’t make decisions easily, so you must guide them
Alzheimer’s patients can’t make decisions easily, so you must guide them. It is very common for Alzheimer’s dementia patients to say No. There is a […]
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Senate panel: Dementia a $20 trillion threat
Senate panel: Dementia a $20 trillion threat. The United States has to continue to make funding scientific research on Alzheimer’s disease and other causes of […]
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Dementia Prevention?
Vitamin D and calcium supplements taken together in low doses offered no protection against dementia in a large U.S. study of older women
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Childhood brain injury could lead to crime later in life
Childhood brain injury could lead to crime later in life. People who suffer a traumatic brain injury as a child are more likely to commit […]
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Alzheimer’s signs show in young brain
Alzheimer’s signs show in young brain. Scientists studying Alzheimer’s disease are increasingly finding clues that the brain begins to deteriorate years before a person shows […]
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