Mental Health Articles

Alzheimer's Disease is a disease that can start by damaging your brain but by the later stages of the disease, it is likely that most of your organ symptoms will be affected one way or another. These symptoms can appear quite suddenly.

Taking care of someone who has dementia can be overwhelming. Difficult behavior is the norm, not the exception. But sometimes challenging behaviors have a correctable cause.

Dementia changes the way people act. This places enormous stress on the people who love and care for them. A good way to deal with that stress is to make positive changes in the environment that reduce the occurrence of upsetting behaviors.

Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome (WKS) is a combination of pervasive damage to the brain and persistent loss of cognitive function characterized by confusion, loss of coordination, and uncontrollable eye movements.

There is a strong relationship between diabetes and dementia. Some doctors even refer to dementia as "diabetes type 3". Here are seven things diabetics need to know about the relationship between the two conditions.

A single traumatic brain injury (TBI) usually doesn't result in dementia. A series of traumatic brain injuries over many years can. Here is what everyone needs to know about the relationships between TBI and the possible development of dementia.

Heavy drinking is the single most modifiable risk factor for dementia. Here are five things everyone needs to know about the effects of excessive alcohol on the brain.

Millions of Americans became familiar with the MMSE screening tool for dementia when it was given to President Trump (who passed the test). Here is an explanation of what the mini-mental state examination is and how it is used.

How does the doctor know if you really have dementia? Diagnosing dementia depends on both objective criteria and clinical judgment, but there is a process to making the diagnosis.

Poorly controlled high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes often lead to heart attack and stroke that is followed by vascular dementia. But there is no single type of vascular dementia. Here is an overview of the main forms of the disease.