More than six million Americans age 65 and up are living with Alzheimer’s including more than 35,000 Nebraska residents.

Nearly 7 million Americans have been diagnosed with dementia, which slowly erodes memory, thinking skills and the ability to ...

Discover how a groundbreaking cognitive assessment tool is transforming early dementia detection with 99.9% accuracy and what this means for future treatment.

Dementia causes a high burden of suffering to patients and their families. For the patients, it leads to increased dependency and complicates other co-morbid conditions. [5] For the families ...

Background: Primary care physicians are positioned to provide early recognition and treatment of dementia. We evaluated the feasibility and utility of a comprehensive screening and diagnosis ...

Today, it's a common screening test that can help identify potential cognitive decline early on. According to Toronto Dementia Research Alliance, the first time this test was cited in a research ...

This is the 53rd instalment in a series on dementia ... test – or CDT – is used regularly to assess several mental processes. Over the past two decades, it has become a key tool in early ...

Are You At Risk for Dementia? New Blood Test May Tell By Dennis Thompson HealthDay ... “PlGF could be used as a cost-effective screening tool for identifying patients at risk for vascular ...

Almost all leading large language models or "chatbots" show signs of mild cognitive impairment in tests widely used to spot early signs of dementia, finds a study in the Christmas issue of The BMJ.