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A leading international neuroscientist has criticised the Australian Government’s commitment to funding research into dementia.

More than 250,000 Australians suffer dementia and that number is expected to balloon to almost 1…

The global cost of dementia will likely exceed $604 billion this year, or 1 percent of the world’s gross domestic product, a new report says.

In…

Researchers at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute (BSI) and their collaborators have shed light on the function of a little-studied amyloid peptide in promoting Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Their…

Marijuana is the most prevalent illicit drug used by teenagers and adults around the world. Nearly a third of high school students in…

The Royal College of Psychiatrists of London has published a report related primarily to problems of unrecognized alcohol misuse among the elderly. The report provides guidelines for psychiatrists and…

Alzheimer’s, the degenerative brain disorder that disrupts memory, thought and behavior, is devastating to both patients and loved ones. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, one in eight Americans over the age of…

It’s considered a rite of passage among young people – acting out their independence through heavy, episodic drinking. But a new University of Cincinnati study, the first…

Krishnan (2007), in a discussion of the concept of disease in geriatric psychiatry, made the case for uniting descriptive syndromal (nominal) diagnosis with essential diagnosis (i.e., diagnosis of the related and presumably causative biological processes).…

Dementia is an umbrella term, covering a number of conditions that manifest themselves in similar ways. The most common type of dementia is Alzheimer’s disease, which accounts for about 69 per cent of all cases.

Attempts made in the United States to develop a standardized nomenclature of diseases began in 1927 and culminated in the publication of the Standard Classified Nomenclature of Disease in 1933 (Logie 1933). Long before…

Dementia is, and always has been, a substantial social issue. Because it is a cluster of cognitive and behavioral symptoms, the dementia syndrome was technically a mental disorder and was long the purview of…

The story of Alzheimer disease began with a series of clinical observations that were linked to a type of brain pathology. These clinical and pathological…

Heavy drinkers more often end up in the hospital with pneumonia than those who go easy on the alcohol, suggests a new study from Denmark.

But it was only the…

Alzheimer’s experts urged U.S. lawmakers on Thursday to increase funding for research of the debilitating disease and to push international policymakers to pay more attention to its global impact.

They…

A new study from Cambridge University has for the first time found that autism diagnoses are more common in an IT-rich region.

The Medical Research Council (MRC) funded…

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have identified abnormal brain structures in the frontal lobe of cocaine users’ brains which are linked to their compulsive cocaine-using behaviour. Their findings…

Children as young as ten are making themselves vomit in order to lose weight and the problem is more common in boys than…

One in 10 women experience depression during pregnancy or shortly after giving birth. Although the problem has received increased attention in recent years, little is known about the…

Although a class schedule with later start times allows colleges students to get more sleep, it also gives them more time to…

Short sleep duration may contribute to the development or worsening of hyperactivity and inattention during early childhood, suggests a research abstract that will be…

Administrative information can be useful for surveillance and understanding of alcohol-related harm in young people, states an article in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).

Binge drinking and overconsumption…

The latest survey of Ontario adults from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) shows increasing rates of daily drinking and cannabis use and high levels…

In a study published today in the Clinical Neuropsychologist (e-publication ahead of print), researchers from the Kennedy Krieger Institute found differences in the brain…

Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are devastating developmental disorders characterized by altered social interactions and behavior. Although genetic risks are known to contribute to the development of ASDs, the genetic causes of…