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Can a healthier lifestyle reduce your risk of dementia?

New research from an international team of dementia researchers, led by Exeter Medical School, has found that following a few simple lifestyle choices may help to prevent dementia – particularly in people who have a higher genetic risk of developing the condition. Find out what this means for you.

Healthy lifestyle may offset genetic risk of dementia – Alzheimer’s Society comment

New research has highlighted that living a healthy lifestyle may help offset a person’s genetic risk of dementia.

Mining a common food compound, Epicatechin, for a new Alzheimer’s disease treatment

Research project: Mining the (-)-epicatechin metabolome for AD therapeutics

‘Use it or lose it’: What’s the truth in dementia?

Research project: Cognitive reserve and dementia incidence

Report: Is there a link between air pollution and dementia?

Research has linked air pollution to a wide range of health problems, including dementia. Alzheimer's Society invited a panel of experts to analyse the evidence of this emerging risk factor.

Investigating mushrooms

Josie Clarkson, a Dementia Support Worker and science writer in South London, looks at research into mushrooms and brain function.

Could air pollution cause dementia?

We brought together neurologists, epidemiologists and experts on the effects of toxins in the brain to help us make sense of the research on air pollution and dementia so far.

WHO guidelines on risk reduction of cognitive decline and dementia – Alzheimer’s Society comment

The WHO is launching their first guidelines on risk reduction of cognitive decline and dementia.

Can I buy supplements to prevent or treat dementia?

We examine the truth behind the sale of supplements, vitamins, products and therapies that claim to prevent or treat dementia, or boost memory.

Five years of the PREVENT dementia programme

Katie Wells, National Research Coordinator from PREVENT, shares the latest from this ongoing project and why it's so important to take part in dementia research studies.

Drugs that lower blood pressure and cholesterol may not improve thinking and memory

While drugs that lower blood pressure and cholesterol have been shown to be beneficial for heart health, a new study from Neurology has found that two such drugs may not provide a similar benefit to the brain.

Keeping active in middle age may be tied to lower risk of dementia - Alzheimer's Society comment

Keeping physically and mentally active in middle age may be tied to a lower risk of developing dementia decades later, according to a study published today in the online journal Neurology.

Exercise may improve thinking skills in people as young as 20

A study published today in online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, suggests that regular aerobic exercise, such as walking, cycling or climbing stairs, may improve thinking skills not only in older people but in young people as well.