Dementia

Jessica Lange sparkles in newest film, ‘The Great Lillian Hall’ - review

Jessica Lange breathes life into a story about a Broadway diva who, months into rehearsals for a revival of Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, discovers she is struggling with dementia.

Jessica Lange is marvelous as an aging actress who discovers she has dementia in ‘The Great Lillian Hall.’
Even a small daily addition of these foods could cause dementia

Even a small daily addition of these foods could cause dementia

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People are talking to each other much less – and it has a dangerous effect

The bad news: Sleeping longer than eight hours increases the risk of dementia

About 50% of dementia cases are preventable: This is the main influencing factor


Most Alzheimer's patients don’t lose this area of memory

Although dementia causes widespread brain damage, many patients who suffer from memory loss are able to preserve musical memories. This miraculous power of music can also be harnessed to treat them.

Man plays guitar (illustrative)

Can eating yogurt prevent dementia in the future?

As of 2021, 6.2 million Americans and more than 100,000 Israelis are living with Alzheimer's disease.

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WHO: Number of people with dementia set to jump 40% to 78m. by 2030

Dementia affects memory, orientation, learning capacity, language, judgement, and the ability to perform everyday tasks.

 Patients with Alzheimer's and dementia are sit inside the Alzheimer foundation in Mexico City

Can we prevent astrocytes in our brain from using cholesterol to cause Alzheimer’s?

Alzheimer’s is primarily caused by a protein called “tau”, which creates “tangles” in the brain neurons, and by a substance known as amyloid-beta (Aβ), which forms extracellular plaques.

Holocaust survivor Betty Stein, 92, (L) and Eli Boyer, 91, play ping pong at a program for people with Alzheimer's and dementia at the Arthur Gilbert table tennis center in Los Angeles