lse: Literary Festival 2014: "Who is it who can tell me who I am?" Understanding Dementia through Art and Literature
Literary Festival 2014: "Who is it who can tell me who I am?" Understanding Dementia through Art and Literature
The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association investigated lucid episodes in people living with later stages of dementia. Learn more.
Moments of clarity in the fog of dementia - Mayo Clinic News Network
Mayo Clinic researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence tool that helps clinicians identify nine types of dementia.
Mayo Clinic researchers have identified new scoring criteria allowing for the detection of treatable forms of rapidly progressive dementia.
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 abilities. People […]
Signs and symptoms of Lewy body dementia - Mayo Clinic News Network
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.
Safe driving requires attention, concentration, and the ability to follow particular steps and rules. You also need to be able to make quick and appropriate decisions. For people with Alzheimer's disease or other disorders causing dementia, these skills will decline over time. Eventually, driving will not be an option. The decision to stop driving may […]