At some point, we’ve all strode into a room with purpose and proceeded to completely forget what we were about to do. “It’s a very common complaint,” confirms Prof Scott Small, director of the ...

Davina McCall says her post-surgery short-term memory loss is “really improving a lot every day” as she recovers at home from a brain operation. The former Big Brother presenter, 57, known for ...

Because Alzheimer’s is just one of several diseases that cause dementia, the key distinction lies in their scope.

During deep sleep, your brain transfers information from short-term to long-term memory storage, essentially filing away the important stuff and discarding what you don’t need.

A symptom of dementia could appear when someone is walking. According to experts, this can become "worrying" but there are ...

While AD is characterized by short-term memory decline, early-onset AD – which accounts for about 5% of AD cases – tends to present with atypical symptoms such as early aphasia, frontal lobe ...

Smith, 32, who lives alone in Alexandria, Louisiana, said there were other strange symptoms that began during his deployment, including painful migraines and persistent short-term memory loss.