Anxiety is a normal and often healthy emotion. However, if a person regularly experiences disproportionate anxiety, it may be a medical disorder. Anxiety disorders are a...
The food we eat has a huge impact on our brain structure and health. The brain is a powerful organ that uses 20% of the body’s...
Both Original Medicare and Medicare Advantage cover dementia costs, but the prepayment and coinsurance waivers differ between the two programs. Physical changes in the brain cause...
The hippocampus is a part of the brain located in the lower middle part of the brain, called the temporal lobe. Important functions of the hippocampus...
Brain aging is inevitable. But it’s not the same. It affects each brain or each brain differently. Slowing down or completely stopping the aging of the...
Atherosclerosis is damage to the brain due to reduced blood flow. People often develop thrombosis after a stroke, but there are many other causes and risk...
Frontotemporal disorders involve damage to the frontal and lateral or temporal regions of the brain that cause dementia. Depending on the species, they can cause changes...
Parkinson’s Disease Dementia refers to symptoms of Parkinson’s disease that affect thought processes, cognitive function and memory. Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive neurological disease that...
Lewy body dementia (LBD) is a type of dementia that affects cognitive and motor skills. LBD affects 1.4 million people and their families in the United...
Alzheimer’s disease is a brain condition in which the death of brain cells causes loss of memory and cognitive abilities. It is the most common type...