Functional MRI is an attractive method for studying cognitive task-related and resting-state patterns of brain activation and connectivity. Since hippocampal dysfunction has been widely reported in ...

Patients with MCI, regardless of subtype, have a higher risk of developing hypertension, diabetes, and hyperlipidemia than cognitively normal individuals.

Requiring impairment on 2 memory tests improves prediction of brain atrophy and progression to AD. HealthDay News — Modifying diagnostic criteria to require impairment on at least 2 memory tests for ...

BALTIMORE, April 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --AgeneBio announced today that it has completed enrollment in a Phase 2B clinical trial evaluating the efficacy of AGB101, a once-a-day investigational ...

A 'brain training' game developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge could help improve the memory of patients in the very earliest stages of dementia, suggests a study published today in ...

Alzheimer disease brings on a tendency to wander, and patients sometimes become disoriented even in the most familiar surroundings. What’s less well known is that problems getting around start very ...

This release is also available in Chinese on EurekAlert! Chinese. July 16, 2012 – (BRONX, NY) – Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and Montefiore Medical Center ...

June is brain and Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month, a time to focus on our brains’ health. As we age, memory lapses and forgetfulness can raise concerns. When are these more than “senior moments”?

This month’s Archives of Neurology provides a gold mine of studies on the neuropathological correlates of mild cognitive impairment, and the predictive value of this syndrome as a precursor of ...

Women make up two-thirds of patients with Alzheimer's disease - so why is it that women are less likely than men to be diagnosed with its precursor, amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI)? This was ...

A study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society examined five personality traits--neuroticism, extraversion, conscientiousness, agreeableness, and openness--and their links to ...