dementia

As frontotemporal dementia degrades social awareness, loved ones and neuroscientists confront the heartbreaking boundary between a changing mind and the enduring self.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

For a long time, as scientists asked questions about the body’s relationship to the mind, dementia, when it came up, was seen as a natural outgrowth of getting older.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

While most people associate dementia with the memory loss and cognitive decline of Alzheimer’s disease, other dementias like FTD strike even deeper at the heart of human identity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

The grad students were learning what dementia researchers had suspected for years: With FTD, embarrassment, or shame, disappears.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

He remained kind and charming until the very end, despite his increasing confusion from the advancing dementia.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

As the population ages, more people are being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

In turn, targeted therapies will either prevent Alzheimer’s in the first place or convert it and other progressive dementias into chronically manageable or even curable conditions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026

It could also help identify people at higher risk of developing Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, even before any symptoms appear.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 22, 2026

Medical experts now believe that nearly half of all dementias can be avoided or significantly delayed by things we can do ourselves.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 11, 2026

In benign stupor purely mental stimuli may change the whole clinical picture abruptly and with this produce a change in the intellectual functioning such as we never see in organic dementias or clouded states.

From Benign Stupors A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type by John T. (John Thompson) MacCurdy