Despite a lot of advancements in our understanding of dementia over the past few decades, doctors still don’t have a reliable ...

A neurologist on TikTok shares five simple at-home tests that may help identify early signs of dementia. These tests assess balance, smell perception, spatial awareness, verbal fluency, and cognitive ...

ARUP Laboratories has introduced a blood test for phosphorylated tau 217 (pTau 217) to aid in diagnosing the pathology of ...

A study involving over 1,700 participants from five hospitals across Barcelona, Sweden, and Italy has confirmed the ...

These new results show that well-established risk factors and blood biomarkers for dementia appear to start affecting ...

A new blood test used to detect the pathology of Alzheimer’s Disease has just launched in Utah, and local experts are calling ...

Researchers hope to launch human clinical trials in their quest for a vaccine to prevent the buildup of pathological tau after demonstrating that this vaccine generated a robust immune response in ...

Dementia — the progressive decline in cognitive abilities, impacting memory, language and reasoning — affects more than 6 million Americans and accounts for over 100,000 deaths each year.

Conventional testing procedures often require a “spinal tap” in which a needle is inserted into the lower spine to retrieve ...

REAL AD hints that blood markers can spot subtle cognitive decline. People who fluff a digital cognitive test have more ...

A new study confirms that plasma p-tau181 levels can identify subjective cognitive decline (SCD) as a distinct early stage of ...

Alzheimer’s disease is commonly thought of as an older person’s illness. But new research from Columbia University and the ...