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  1. Mayo Clinic Minute: Reducing dementia risks

    Dementia is an umbrella term for a group of symptoms affecting memory, thinking and social abilities. It's not one disease. And Alzheimer's disease is the most ...

  2. Mayo Clinic's AI tool identifies 9 dementia types, including Alzheimer's, with one scan

    Mayo Clinic researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence tool that helps clinicians identify nine types of dementia.

  3. Frontotemporal dementia - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic

    Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is an umbrella term for a group of brain diseases that mainly affect the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain. These areas of ...

  4. Dementia - Care at Mayo Clinic

    Dementia care at Mayo Clinic Mayo Clinic experts from many disciplines — including neurology, neuroscience, psychology and psychiatry — collaborate to provide ...

  5. Mayo Clinic expert explains why a change is needed when talking about dementia

    Inconsistent use of terms such as Alzheimer's disease and dementia has compromised progress in clinical care, research and development of therapeutics.

  6. Mayo Clinic Q and A: Lifelong strategies for preventing dementia

    DEAR MAYO CLINIC: Do puzzles and other activities or apps that claim to lower one's risk of developing dementia actually work? Are there other things people ...

  7. Mayo Clinic expert provides tips for reducing dementia risk

    Ronald Petersen, M.D., a neurologist and director of Mayo Clinic's Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, says you can't prevent dementia, but you can reduce ...

  8. How is artificial intelligence helping to diagnose dementia? - Mayo Clinic

    Artificial intelligence can help detect patterns in brain activity that humans can't — and identify dementia types.

  9. Tuesday Q and A: Many conditions result in dementia, but Alzheimer’s is most common

    DEAR MAYO CLINIC: What is the difference between dementia and Alzheimer's disease? Are they hereditary? ANSWER: Dementia is a broad term used to describe a ...

  10. The word "dementia" is an umbrella term used to describe a set of symptoms. These symptoms include changes in memory, reasoning, judgment, language and ...