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Intensive blood pressure treatment may lower dementia risk

25 July 2018

People who receive stronger-than-normal blood pressure treatments have been found to be 19 per cent less likely to later develop signs of cognitive impairment

Can an app tell if you have dementia years before your doctor?

1 June 2018

Many games and apps claim to identify the earliest signs of dementia – if they work, we might be able to catch the condition early enough to treat it

Can a brain implant treat Alzheimer's? It might just be placebo

30 January 2018

Alzheimer’s disease may have been slowed in two people given implants that stimulate the brain with electricity, but this may just have been the placebo effect

Music and art stop dementia from stealing everything we cherish

4 January 2018

Dementia may not rob us of everything we cherish – a Wellcome project and a community choir have some great news about the role of art and music

Married people are much less likely to get dementia

29 November 2017

People who are single for life are 42 per cent more likely to get dementia, but marriage isn’t always good for your health – especially if you’re a woman

Making your brain cells longer could help ward off Alzheimer’s

22 November 2017

People who die with plaques and tangles in their brain but no signs of dementia may have changed the shape of connections between neurons to withstand the disease

Brain training game linked to lower dementia risk a decade later

16 November 2017

Could just ten sessions of brain training be enough to lower your risk of dementia by 29 per cent a decade later? A study suggests so, but some are sceptical

First results from young blood Alzheimer’s trial are criticised

1 November 2017

The results from the first trial of young blood as a treatment for Alzheimer’s have been announced, but how the study was done is coming under criticism

Alzheimer’s may be able to spread through blood transfusions

31 October 2017

A protein might be capable of spreading Alzheimer’s through blood transfusions and surgical equipment, but we don’t know yet how much of a risk this is