A new Flinders University study has shown how a protein called tau, a critical factor in the development of Alzheimer’s disease, turns from normal to a disease state. Researchers say the discovery could help to prevent the tau transformation process ...

A world-first study has found that poor physical fitness and obesity in childhood may predict declined cognitive functioning and dementia in later life. The 30-year research from Monash University followed over 1200 people from childhood up to 2019 to track their cognitive ...

People who walk slower and experience memory problems as they age are at an increased risk of developing dementia, a major global study has found. Over seven years researchers from Australia and the US studied more than 16,800 people aged ...

Exposure to noisy traffic over a long period could cause dementia, according to new research. The study, published in the BMJ by researchers from Denmark, found that around one in eight cases of dementia in the country could be linked ...

Harmful body fat could increase your risk of dementia, Australian researchers have found.  Researchers at the University of South Australia looked at the grey brain matter of about 28,000 people, and saw that increased body fat incrementally leads to increased ...

Regulators in the US have approved the first new medication for Alzheimer's in nearly two decades. Aducanumab is the first medication intended to slow cognitive decline in people in the early stages of Alzheimer's. It includes antibodies designed to attach ...

A new study has found that people who get too little sleep in their 50s and 60s could be more likely to develop dementia when they're older, reports the New York Times. The study followed the sleep of nearly 8,000 ...

New research has found that a profound inability to feel pleasure, known as anhedonia, is a key feature of early onset dementia and the study could provide an area for future treatments of the condition. Anhedonia is technically defined as ...

The Coalition pledges to help make Australia a world leader in Alzheimer’s fight. The Coalition will provide $200 million over five years for dementia research if elected, Opposition leader Tony Abbott announced in late August. About 1700 new cases of ...

Despite the impending epidemic, annual spend on dementia research is $20 million, compared to $160 million for cancer. The release of the ‘World Alzheimer Report 2010’ in Sydney recently has reinforced the seriousness of the impending dementia epidemic, but it ...