A commonly prescribed pain medication—gabapentin—often considered a safer alternative to opioids for those who suffer from ...

Gabapentin is routinely used to treat nerve pain and restless leg syndrome, but it might be riskier to our brain health than ...

Frequent use of gabapentin for back pain may raise the risk of dementia by 29% and mild cognitive impairment by 85%, new ...

Dementia-related pain As dementia progresses, so does the likelihood that patients are experiencing pain. Between 50% and 80% of patients with moderate to severe dementia experience pain daily.

The anti-seizure drug is used to treat epilepsy, nerve pain after shingles and restless legs syndrome by affecting chemical messengers in the brain and nerves.

An extremely popular nerve pain drug commonly given to those suffering from low-back issues has been linked to impaired ...

A widely prescribed pain medication, gabapentin — often recommended as a safer alternative to opioids for individuals ...

Research shows that patients with six or more prescriptions for gabapentin, commonly used to treat lower back pain, were 29% more likely to be diagnosed with dementia and 85% more likely to be ...

Decline in mental processes is a common complication of HIV infection. It's called, among other things, AIDS dementia. Learn more.

About half of the participants in the study could use the standard pain scale to describe their level of pain although this varied strongly, from 80 per cent of people with early-stage dementia to ...

Prunella Scales is to reprise her theatre role as Queen Victoria, delivering lines she first read 44 years ago, despite her diagnosis with dementia.