Memory

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...