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 ...

Language-processing difficulties are more of an indicator than memory loss 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. Now ...

Future Neurology. 2009;4(5):649-662. A further confounding factor is the increasing use of cholinesterase inhibitors in MCI and AD patients in attempts to alleviate or arrest behavioral and cognitive ...

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 ...

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”?

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 ...

Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are at an increased risk of cognitive impairment, with a notably higher likelihood of developing non-amnestic mild cognitive impairment.