Moments of clarity in the fog of dementia - Mayo Clinic News …
Mar 4, 2024 · The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association investigated lucid episodes in people living with later stages of dementia. Learn more.
Researchers identify new criteria to detect rapidly progressive …
Nov 8, 2023 · Mayo Clinic researchers have identified new scoring criteria allowing for the detection of treatable forms of rapidly progressive dementia.
What is frontotemporal dementia? - Mayo Clinic News Network
Feb 23, 2024 · Frontotemporal degeneration (FTD) is a group of neurologic disorders associated with changes in personality, behavior, language or movement.
Mayo Clinic Minute: Dietary supplements don't reduce dementia …
Jun 11, 2019 · Do dietary supplements reduce your risk of dementia and improve brain health? The Global Council on Brain Health says they don't. In a new report, the organization recommends that most people not take dietary supplements for this purpose. In addition, the Global Council on Brain Health, which is a collaborative organization associated with the …
Mayo Clinic researchers to study causes of rapidly progressive …
Jan 8, 2025 · Mayo Clinic researchers will try to figure out clinical traits of rapidly progressive dementia, a rare neurodegenerative disease that causes rapid cognitive decline.
Mayo Clinic Q and A: My mom has Alzheimer’s. What does that …
Sep 16, 2024 · Increasing age is the strongest known risk factor for Alzheimer's disease, but genetics and lifestyle also influence risk and protection against disease.
Signs and symptoms of Lewy body dementia
Sep 3, 2020 · Lewy body dementia, also known as dementia with Lewy bodies, is the second most common type of progressive dementia after Alzheimer's disease dementia. Protein deposits, called Lewy bodies, develop in nerve cells in the brain regions involved in thinking, memory and movement (motor control). Lewy body dementia causes a progressive decline in mental …
Acting Out Dreams Linked to Development of Dementia, Mayo …
Mar 19, 2013 · SAN DIEGO — The strongest predictor of whether a man is developing dementia with Lewy bodies — the second most common form of dementia in the elderly — is whether he acts out his dreams while sleeping, Mayo Clinic researchers have discovered. Patients are five times more likely to have dementia with Lewy bodies if […]
Mayo Clinic expert provides tips for reducing dementia risk
Aug 25, 2022 · Ronald Petersen, M.D., a neurologist and director of Mayo Clinic’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, says you can’t prevent dementia, but you can reduce your risk.
Mayo Clinic Q and A: Lewy body dementia and Alzheimer’s …
Mar 4, 2017 · In Lewy body dementia, Lewy bodies are found in the deep structures of the brain that control movement, as well as in the middle and outer structures involved in emotion, behavior, judgment and awareness. Many patients with Lewy body dementia also have overlapping Alzheimer’s disease.