A blood test can predict the risk of dementia in women up to 25 years before symptoms appear, researchers say. Experts in the US found that higher levels of a protein called p-tau217 – which is linked ...

Can our homes help detect brain changes? New research shows how digital sensing reveals subtle shifts in movement and cognition in everyday life, and can track disease progression.

The Marshmallow Test was a study conducted in the early 1960s to examine how kids handled delayed gratification. Kids who ...

Rather than a ‘rising tide lifting all boats,’ empty rhetoric in an organization acts more like a clogged toilet of inefficiency,” a Cornell researcher said.

Exercise may reduce cancer-related cognitive impairment among people starting chemotherapy, according to results of a ...

Rising diagnoses of young onset dementia highlight the need for early recognition and timely evaluation of a condition that disrupts patients’ careers, families, and financial stability.

In former college athletes, having had three or more concussions was associated with slightly worse physical, mental, behavioral and cognitive health five years after graduation, according to an ...

A long-term study of 2,766 women in the Women’s Health Initiative Memory Study found that higher baseline plasma p-tau217 levels were associated with a greater risk of developing mild cognitive ...

Scientists found that a blood protein called p tau217 may reveal dementia risk up to 25 years before symptoms appear.

Scientists develop a blood test that detects Alzheimer’s by measuring protein structural changes rather than protein quantity.

A pilot randomized trial of older adults with mild cognitive impairment given either daily low-dose lithium carbonate or placebo for 2 years met its feasibility target, according to results published ...

Dementia is one of the biggest health challenges facing aging populations around the world. Millions of people develop memory loss and thinking problems as they grow older, and Alzheimer’s disease is ...