Dementia diagnosis: How long do patients really live?
The average life expectancy of people diagnosed with dementia ranges from nine years at age 60 to 4.5 years at age 85 for ...
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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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, ...
New evidence links dementia to problems with the brain's waste clearance system
A study from the Keck School of Medicine of USC has tested a biomarker linked to vascular dementia across four separate ...
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The Power of Waiting: Your Brain's Defense Against Dementia
Can delaying gratification today protect your brain tomorrow? Research suggests that the ability to resist immediate rewards ...
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 ...
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 ...
Could your evening glass of wine be accelerating Alzheimer’s? What shocking new study says about alcohol use disorder
Inflammation and Immune Response: Both Alzheimer’s disease and alcohol use disorder showed heightened activity in ...