Tag: dementia

The University of Rochester Medical Center has been selected to participate in a national network created to develop new ways to diagnose and treat Lewy Body Dementia. The new initiative, which is ...

An initial survey shows that oral health suffers among people who care for friends or loved ones with Alzheimer's Disease.

While a couple of glasses of red wine can help clear the mind after a busy day, new research shows that it may actually help clean the mind as well. The new study, which appears in the journal ...

New research shows that the number of people with Parkinson’s disease will soon grow to pandemic proportions. In a commentary appearing today in the journal JAMA Neurology, University of Rochester ...

John Foxe, PhD, has devoted his career to improving the lives of people with intellectual and developmental disorders. Now he is helping assemble the scientific teams and talent necessary to take on ...

New research initiative will seek to deepen our understanding of the causes and mechanisms of Alzheimer’s, what can be done to diagnose this complex disease earlier, and identify new strategies to ...

Feng Vankee Lin's new $3.67 million NIA grant will look to see if the benefits of engaging in a rigorously designed program of aerobic exercise and brain training will produce greater gains in ...

More than half of older adults suffer from delirium after surgery, a condition called postoperative cognitive dysfunction. Researchers at Duke and the University of Rochester Medical Center will test ...

New research will seek to understand why people who are HIV positive are more susceptible to a progressive cerebrovascular disease that can ultimately give rise to dementia. One of the goals of the ...

A new $3.2 million grant will bring together biomedical scientists and mechanical engineers in an effort to develop a detailed understanding of the brain’s waste removal system. The research could ...