“While that risk is lower than the same one unit lower performance when measured in the year before dementia assessment, the ...

FYI, the test isn't new. It's been around for a while. The study found that people with higher insulin resistance were up to ...

We were surprised to see the effect only in the Alzheimer’s spectrum and not in other neurodegenerative diseases." ...

Many people think dementia is just ‘forgetting memories’. But it changes a person to their very core, and many times its ...

Watching a baby babble, play and interact with others can provide useful insight into what their cognitive ability might be ...

A surprising new study suggests that dementia risk has declined with each generation. However, there are good reasons to be ...

A new tool developed by researchers can estimate how fast someone is aging by analyzing a single MRI brain scan, predicting ...

Dementia affects over 57 million people worldwide—and this number is only projected to grow. By 2030, 78 million people are ...

A critical step in meeting the needs of the growing aging population is early recognition of cognitive decline. In California, women who live to be 65 or older have a one in four chance of developing ...

A simple blood test can predict cognitive decline in dementia patients, shows new research. Insulin resistance detected by the test can flag people with early Alzheimer’s disease who are four ...

Deep sleep could forestall the declines in brain health that can eventually lead to Alzheimer's disease, the most common form ...

Frequent difficulty finding the right word can signal changes in the brain consistent with the early (“preclinical”) stages ...