"Childhood" and "dementia" are two words we wish we didn't have to use together. But sadly, around 1,400 Australian children and young people live with currently untreatable childhood dementia.

The groundbreaking study reveals children with high body mass index ... noticeable in areas of the brain known to be affected by dementia in old age. While previous research has focused on ...

Vaccines, antibiotics, antiviral medications and anti-inflammatory drugs are all associated with a reduced risk of dementia, ...

A loved one’s dementia diagnosis can feel like the person you know is lost forever. When the progressive disease came to ...

Teenagers and their parents had better watch out. An unhealthy lifestyle in childhood has been linked to the onset of ...

Being overweight as a child could increase the risk of dementia in old age, a study by Oxford University suggests. The changes were seen especially in areas linked to dementia. Previous studies ...

Teenagers should be considering their dementia risk, academics have said after a new study suggests that having an unhealthy childhood could affect the brain in later life. A child’s body mass ...

New research suggests that the risk for developing dementia is significantly higher ... is the second largest in the US after their children, the Millennials, according to the US Census Bureau ...

Pauline Quirke 's son Charlie has broken his silence after the sad news that his mum, Pauline Quirke, had been diagnosed with ...