Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illustration of liver in glowing outlines As the global population ages, more of us face frightening cognitive decline, personally ...

The descent into dementia can feel like traversing a minefield, coming across new symptoms without the hope of a cure. But some dementia patients, even up to 10% of people diagnosed with the condition ...

Around 13% of patients with a dementia diagnosis may instead have advanced liver disease — also called cirrhosis — which can cause reversible cognitive decline, researchers at the Virginia ...

A new study of aging U.S. veterans finds that one in every 10 who have been diagnosed with dementia might actually have brain impairments caused by liver cirrhosis. It's a condition called hepatic ...

The largest study of its kind from the Boston University CTE Center reveals that chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) should be recognized as a new cause of dementia. The research, published in ...

Stage III or IV chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) pathology was associated with increased odds of dementia in a large autopsy study. The study assessed brain donors with CTE pathology and no ...

Dementia frequently coexists with hepatic encephalopathy (HE) in patients with cirrhosis but doesn't correlate with other decompensating events, according to a new study involving US veterans. The ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Paul Hsieh, M.D., covers healthcare economics, innovation, and policy. There is no known cure for several kinds of dementia, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illustration of liver in glowing outlines As the global population ages, more of us face frightening cognitive decline, personally ...

Patients with dementia may instead have hepatic encephalopathy (HE) and should be screened with the Fibrosis-4 (FIB-4) index for cirrhosis, one of the main causes of the condition, new research ...