Could a simple blood test predict your risk of getting dementia years, or even decades, before you experience memory loss? That’s the potential promise of a new class of biomark ...

A major new Australian trial could help detect Alzheimer’s disease years earlier, giving hope to hundreds of thousands of ...

The concern is that early attention problems can be missed if screening relies on tools weighted toward memory. For example, ...

Memory loss can point in more than one direction. A patient may seem to fit Alzheimer’s disease, only to have signs that also ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists have designed a new cognitive test that diagnoses patients more accurately with Alzheimer's. The digital test times how ...

A new study found that it is possible to identify early signs of dementia many years before symptoms appear using a simple ...

A pioneering study indicates that Alzheimer’s disease is considerably more widespread among individuals over 85 than previously believed. The research also found that over one in ten people aged 70 ...

Memory loss often feels like something that arrives late in life. In reality, the story may begin much earlier, long before ...

A new blood test could replace the brain scans and spinal taps currently used to diagnose Alzheimer's disease.

Doctors are only just getting to grips with LATE – a newly recognised form of cognitive decline behind up to one in five ...

Three state legislatures have moved forward with dementia-related legislation that includes mandating biomarker testing coverage by insurance plans, creating new memory care licensure and creating a ...

When I co-invented the first PET (positron emission tomography) scan to visualize brain amyloid and tau—the physical evidence of Alzheimer’s disease—I did not foresee the distressing mental impact ...