In the mid-2000s, a team of graduate students at the University of California, Berkeley, conducted an unusual experiment. The test subjects—patients diagnosed with a rare brain disease called ...

Medically reviewed by Huma Sheikh, MD Key Takeaways The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) can detect early signs of dementia in just 10 minutes.A MoCA score of 26 or higher is considered normal ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Study links blood metabolites and gut bacteria to early cognitive decline before dementia diagnosis. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) Before ...

Age is the greatest known risk factor for dementia — though it seems to go beyond the number of candles on the birthday cake. New research out of the UK reports that biological age, the age of our ...

A digital drawing application developed by Singapore General Hospital and the Government Technology Agency of Singapore has demonstrated accuracy on par with a detailed cognitive test in detecting pre ...

Researchers from the University of California San Diego have found that a novel blood-based biomarker can predict a woman’s risk of developing dementia as many as 25 years before symptoms appear. The ...