Doctors and other health care providers use a comprehensive tool to assess the seven stages of dementia in the elderly called the Global Deterioration Scale. Also known as the GDS, this trusted method ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. According to research, vascular dementia is slightly more common in men than women Alzheimer’s disease is not the only cruel ...

Dementia before age 80 is potentially preventable through early intervention on common vascular risk factors, according to research led by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Findings ...

Researchers from the Indiana University School of Medicine have developed a highly sensitive diagnostic that predicts a person's stage of dementia based on neurovascular and metabolic changes. They ...

Vascular dementia is caused by blood flow issues in the brain: it's one of the most common types of dementia, but not as well researched or understood as others. Neuropathologist Elaine Bearer from ...

Vascular dementia is believed to affect the majority of the 6 million people in the US with dementia. It is the second most common type of dementia after Alzheimer’s disease. It also accounts for 20% ...

Many experts note that vascular dementia develops over years. Short trials may struggle to show change in cognition. The negative readout does not prove the drugs lack benefit. It suggests the ...

Medical researchers conducted the largest-ever genome-wide association study of all-cause dementia, finding substantial genetic overlap with vascular dementia. In landmark research, scientists at The ...

High body mass index (BMI) could cause a higher risk of vascular-related dementia (a combination of vascular + unspecified dementia), according to new research from the University of Bristol and ...

Even though Novo Nordisk's GLP-1 failed in Alzheimer's trial, some researchers are cautiously optimistic that obesity and diabetes drugs may have benefits for people with one of the most common forms ...