There are no simple, quick tests you can do that will provide a dementia diagnosis Getting a dementia diagnosis is a long and complicated process, which can be a postcode lottery. In some cases where ...

Alzheimer’s disease blood test developer Quanterix put forward new clinical data from its Simoa assay, which it described as ...

Despite a lot of advancements in our understanding of dementia over the past few decades, doctors still don’t have a reliable way to tell who will develop the devastating condition. There's been quite ...

Dementia is a condition that affects millions of people worldwide, significantly impacting their lives and the lives of their families. Understanding and addressing dementia early can make a ...

A study of frozen blood samples has turned up a trove of proteins that may predict several forms of dementia more than 10 years before the disease is diagnosed, researchers from the U.K. and China ...

Carole Rainey, whose name has been changed to protect her privacy, started to notice something wasn’t quite right with her husband, Bill, when he began to ramble in a way that was unlike him. He had ...

The Montreal Cognitive Assessment is a 30-point exam meant to screen for Alzheimer's and other cognitive impairments in older adults.

There’s no specific test to confirm you have vascular dementia. Doctors often arrive at a diagnosis after considering your symptoms and observations from a neurological exam, lab tests, and brain ...