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 ...
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 ...
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New Guidelines Update Alzheimer's and Dementia Evaluations
A three-step process underscores new clinical practice guidelines for primary and specialty care clinicians to evaluate ...
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Finally, an accurate blood test for Alzheimer’s at its earliest stages could be on horizon
Discover a groundbreaking study that may help detect Alzheimer's in its early stages. Learn about the link between blood molecules and cognitive symptoms.
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 ...
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Life expectancy and nursing home admission in people with dementia
The average life expectancy of people diagnosed with dementia ranges from 9 years at age 60 to 4.5 years at age 85 for women ...
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Alzheimer’s Association releases new dementia diagnosis guidelines
The Alzheimer’s Association has updated its guidelines for diagnosing dementia, leaving them broad but giving room to integrate new and upcoming developments in dementia diagnosis.
Dementia study sheds light on how long people can expect to live after diagnosis
Researchers used data from more than five million people to estimate typical life expectancies for men and women.
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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Workgroup Recommends Updated Guidelines for Alzheimer's, Dementia Diagnosis
Alzheimer’s disease experts have updated their diagnosis guidelines for the first time in more than 20 years, laying o ...
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Dementia has early financial toll, but senior living providers can help prevent it
After learning that people with cognitive decline could lose half of their net worth in the eight years before a dementia ...