Testing for dementia by asking patients to draw a clock, walk and talk, stand on one leg
Is it dementia? A popular neurologist uses five simple tests of cognitive function to help gauge the health of a patient's ...
New dementia tool predicts when symptoms will start: ‘Would you want to know?’
Nearly 7 million Americans have been diagnosed with dementia, which slowly erodes memory, thinking skills and the ability to ...
Doctors Gave AI Chatbots a Cognitive Test. Their Diagnosis? Early Dementia.
Neurologists hope this tongue-in-cheek study will spark serious conversations about AI's limitations and the benefits of a ...
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Dementia with Lewy bodies has been difficult to diagnose early, but comprehensive cognitive testing could change that
Cognitive profiles for early diagnosis of Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) have been outlined in a new study. Although DLB is the second most common neurodegenerative dementia following Alzheimer's ...
The test that detects if memory blips are early dementia or just old age, as 60% of adults shrug signs off as ageing
A WORD on the tip of the tongue or a forgotten birthday – everyone has occasional memory blanks. While forgetting things ...
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Tool Predicts Age at Cognitive Impairment, Dementia Onset
A novel tool known as the Florey Dementia Index (FDI) predicted onset age of mild cognitive impairment or Alzheimer's disease ...
Alzheimer’s could be diagnosed 10 years earlier after world’s largest blood proteins study
Alzhemier’s disease could be diagnosed up to a decade earlier after the world’s biggest study of proteins is completed. The ...
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Blood test could help track Alzheimer's disease progression and severity
Declining blood levels of two molecules that occur naturally in the body track closely with worsening Alzheimer's disease, ...
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Study advances possible blood test for early-stage Alzheimer's disease
Declining blood levels of two molecules that occur naturally in the body track closely with worsening Alzheimer's disease, particularly in women. Levels were found to drop gradually, from women with ...
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The test that detects if memory blips are early dementia or just old age, as 60% of adults shrug signs off as ageing
A new poll has found as many as six in 10 adults put early signs of dementia down to old age - rather than the condition itself - but a simple test could help tell the difference between the two.