Background: Primary care physicians are positioned to provide early recognition and treatment of dementia. We evaluated the feasibility and utility of a comprehensive screening and diagnosis ...

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

Is it dementia? A popular neurologist uses five simple tests of cognitive function to help gauge the health of a patient's ...

Dementia causes a high burden of suffering to patients and their families. For the patients, it leads to increased dependency and complicates other co-morbid conditions. [5] For the families ...

a screening test for dementia risk. Do you have questions about the biggest topics and trends from around the world? Get the answers with SCMP Knowledge, our new platform of curated content with ...

Are You At Risk for Dementia? New Blood Test May Tell By Dennis Thompson HealthDay ... “PlGF could be used as a cost-effective screening tool for identifying patients at risk for vascular ...

But a multicenter study led by UCLA researchers could lead to a cost-effective blood test to identify ... impairment and dementia (VCID), PlGF could be used as a cost-effective screening tool ...

Participants were required to complete a self-assessed test of cognition ... impairment (MCI) or dementia. There was no association between low-risk and high-risk playing positions (HR = 0.40, p = ...

Almost all leading large language models or "chatbots" show signs of mild cognitive impairment in tests widely used to spot early signs of dementia, finds a study in the Christmas issue of The BMJ.