The Ageing Brain

For a doctor, the overwhelming feeling one gets when trying to talk to a patient in an acute confusional state is that he or she just is not really...

All of our organs change as we age and unfortunately the changes are usually for the worse. For example, there is a decrease in reserve capacity in...

In the Western world, people are living longer than ever before and the fastest growing subgroup is the "oldest old" (over age 85). So in recent...

So far no cure for Alzheimer's has been found, but there has been a huge amount of research on the subject over the last 15 years, which has led to...

Strokes are the third commonest cause of death in the UK and about a third of people who have a stroke are left with disabilities. Though some...

In every era there have been diseases that wreak havoc in humanity. Throughout history the causes of most such illnesses have been unknown and...

Michael J Fox, Pope John Paul II, Salvador Dali and millions of other people throughout the world have suffered from Parkinson's disease. Although...

Alzheimer's is the most common type of dementia, mainly affecting old people, causing increasing forgetfulness and inability to function in daily...