Dementia can potentially be predicted up to 10 years before signs first appear, thanks to highly accurate blood tests, ...

Despite a lot of advancements in our understanding of dementia over the past few decades, doctors still don’t have a reliable way to tell who will develop the devastating condition. There's been quite ...

Carole Rainey, whose name has been changed to protect her privacy, started to notice something wasn’t quite right with her husband, Bill, when he began to ramble in a way that was unlike him. He had ...

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A combined blood test for cognitive decline has a 90% accuracy rate in determining whether memory loss is due to Alzheimer’s disease, a new study found.In comparison, neurologists and other memory ...

The findings, published in the journal Neurology, show that brain changes happen decades before the onset of symptoms.

Early detection is imperative to catch neurodegenerative diseases like dementia in their early stages and slow disease progression. But regular cognitive testing is not yet commonplace in healthcare ...

Jijing Wang, Ph.D., and Hyun-Sik Yang, MD, of the Department of Neurology at Mass General Brigham, are the lead and senior ...

THE Food for the Brain Foundation’s Cognitive Function Test will now be used to assess blood biomarkers being developed in ...