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 ...

A neurologist has shared five simple tests, including a clock drawing test, that could help identify early signs of dementia ...

A large, long-term study found that playing a brain training video game may help protect the brain against dementia for ...

A simple screening tool requiring only pen and paper may help identify early signs of cognitive decline ...

A blood test, combined with an ultrathin material derived from graphite, could significantly advance efforts to detect Alzheimer's disease at its very earliest stage, even before symptoms appear.

Finger-prick blood tests at home detected Alzheimer's biomarkers nearly as well as standard methods. The DROP-AD study suggested that dried blood spots could revolutionize screening approaches for ...

This finding suggests that the test may be especially useful for identifying Alzheimer’s disease rather than memory problems in general. Because the test is simple, inexpensive, and non-invasive, it ...

People can try to spot one of the early signs of dementia by trying to complete a test using nothing but a tennis ball and their hands. Whilst it may seem peculiar, a few minutes spent doing the test ...

Jijing Wang, PhD, and Hyun-Sik Yang, MD, of the Department of Neurology at Mass General Brigham, are the lead and senior authors of a paper published in Molecular Neurodegeneration, “Plasma TDP-43 is ...

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 ...