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Google’s AI Overview did not provide a summary for the query “does Trump show signs of dementia,” despite doing so for a number of former presidents, according to a report by the Verge. Newsweek ...

Mark Strassmann is CBS News' senior national correspondent based in Atlanta. He covers a wide range of stories, including space exploration. Strassmann is also the senior national correspondent for ...

Karlawish is a professor of medicine, medical ethics, health policy, and neurology at the University of Pennsylvania. Welcome to Neurotransmissions, a new column on dementia from Jason Karlawish. This ...

Researchers in Japan discovered that Parkinson’s patients diagnosed in their 80s are far more likely to show signs of amyloid buildup, a hallmark of Alzheimer’s, even without dementia symptoms. The ...

Hong Xu receives funding from the Swedish Research Council . A simple urine test could reveal your risk of developing dementia decades before symptoms appear, a new study shows. For the study, my ...

New research suggests that drinking any amount of alcohol will raise your risk of dementia. This news challenges prior studies suggested that moderate drinking was still fine for overall health.

For the first time, a United Nations declaration is pledging to address dementia. On Thursday, world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly in New York laid out a new plan for combating mental health ...

Researchers have issued an urgent warning over a red flag sign in your wee which could indicate a higher risk of dementia. Dementia, which currently affects an estimated 982,000 people in the UK alone ...

People living with a form of Lewy body dementia potentially have access to a promising investigational drug that appears to reduce or improve symptoms. Dr. Dave Shprecher is a movement disorder ...