A key way to avoid dementia may be learning another language. Neurologists are reporting in the largest study to date on the link between language skills and the brain-destroying disease that people ...

How do you say "protect me against dementia" in Hindi? It might be worth learning. A new study shows how bilingualism can ward off cognitive decline and dementia. Scientists in India and the United ...

The recent ability to peer into the brain of living individuals with a rare type of language dementia, primary progressive aphasia, provides important insight into the beginning stages of this disease ...

Dementia can damage the parts of the brain that control language. How and when language problems develop will depend on: the person’s personality and the ways they manage these language problems the ...

You may have heard that learning another language is one method for preventing or at least postponing the onset of dementia. Dementia refers to the loss of cognitive abilities, and one of its most ...

Dementia, a term encompassing various conditions that cause a decline in cognitive abilities, can be a frightening prospect. While there’s currently no cure, research offers encouraging possibilities.

You may have lived in Australia for most of your adult life, speaking English every day. But if you acquired the language later in life and then develop dementia – a brain condition that affects ...

Members of the Spanish-speaking group Cuidadores Unidos meet once a month to discuss the challenges of being caregivers to family members or friends with a dementia-related disease. At the Holyoke ...

Why a right-leaning news organization stopped looking for evidence of dementia in well-known politicians after they ...

You may have heard that learning another language is one method for preventing or at least postponing the onset of dementia. Dementia refers to the loss of cognitive abilities, and one of its most ...

A person with any type of dementia can have problems with language. This is because dementia can damage the parts of the brain that control language. How and when language problems develop will depend ...