The gold-standard dementia test is the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) Trump famously scored a perfect 30 out of 30 on ...

But you’ll need a doctor to interpret results and perform additional tests to check whether you have dementia or Alzheimer’s. As you get older, you might find that you can’t recall ...

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

A trial to identify fast and accurate blood tests that can diagnose dementia comes at an "exciting" time in the treatment of ...

“The current gold standard test, the Mini-Mental State Examination ... attending a memory clinic who had been diagnosed with dementia or mild memory impairment. Controls attained an average ...

Revised guidelines for amyloid and tau positron emission tomography for Alzheimer’s disease and dementia state these tests ...

In this current study, the p-tau217 tests met that standard, but the others did not ... Too many people in the UK are left anxiously waiting for a dementia diagnosis, up to two years on average ...

Currently, around a third of patients with dementia never get a formal diagnosis ... Only around 2% of patients have one of the 'gold standard' tests for Alzheimer's - either a specialist PET ...

As the year comes to a close, experts from the Alzheimer's Association reflect on some of the hopeful advances in diagnosis, ...

In July 2024, people living with early Alzheimer’s and organizations such as the Alzheimer’s Association celebrated FDA ...

The new test developed and validated in the SENSE-Cog study could accurately diagnose dementia in people with hearing problems. It is an adapted version of a standard test – the Montreal Cognitive ...