June is brain and Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month, a time to focus on our brains’ health. As we age, memory lapses and ...

“Amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) is a condition that describes a transitional state between normal cognition and significant cognitive impairment (dementia), ...

The EXERT study, one of the largest and longest-running clinical trials of its kind, followed nearly 300 sedentary adults aged 65 to 89 with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a condition ...

Progression rates from MCI to dementia at 3 years were 61% with prodromal AD (any cognitive impairment, abnormal amyloid-β1-42 and tau or abnormal amyloid PET scan) versus 22% without prodromal ...

Amnestic has the same root as the word amnesia, meaning memory loss. From studies in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease or amnestic MCI, we know that the changes are similar.

In this work, the feasibility of classifying amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI), a prodromal stage of Alzheimer's disease, was investigated using fMRI activation patterns in the medial temporal ...

Mild Cognitive Impairment ... Neurologists divide MCI into two broad categories: amnestic impairment, in which memory loss is the predominant symptom, and non-amnestic impairment, ...

Language-processing difficulties are an indicator of amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI), a risk factor for dementia due to Alzheimer’s disease, according to a new study.

Individuals with mild cognitive impairment, especially of the "amnestic subtype" (aMCI), are at increased risk for dementia due to Alzheimer's disease relative to cognitively healthy older adults.

Summary: Individuals with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI), a condition that significantly increases the risk for Alzheimer’s disease, struggle with processing complex language beyond their ...