A WORD on the tip of the tongue or a forgotten birthday – everyone has occasional memory blanks. While forgetting things ...

Are you concerned your memory is not what it used to be? Now, a neurologist has revealed some quick ... test whereby the participant is asked to identify a series of odours. That's because early ...

doctors in busy surgeries and clinics have little time to test the cognitive ... from 139 patients attending a memory clinic who had been diagnosed with dementia or mild memory impairment.

A study from the Keck School of Medicine of USC has tested a biomarker linked to vascular dementia across four separate ...

Is it dementia? A popular neurologist uses five simple tests of cognitive function to help gauge the health of a patient's ...

The new technology is known as Multi-excitation Raman spectroscopy A new laser-based test has been created ... The main symptoms of dementia include memory loss, difficulty in concentration ...

Make people and places more familiar As your loved one’s memory becomes progressively impaired by dementia, they will usually remember less from the recent past and more from the distant past.

Thousands of people are to be offered a blood test for dementia as part of a trial run by memory clinics across the UK. The hope is that more people will be able to access care, support and new ...

Most patients are currently diagnosed using memory tests and brain scans. Ron Hill, 81, from Grove in Oxfordshire was diagnosed with early dementia after being assessed at the Oxford Brain Health ...