The test that detects if memory blips are early dementia or just old age, as 60% of adults shrug signs off as ageing
A WORD on the tip of the tongue or a forgotten birthday – everyone has occasional memory blanks. While forgetting things ...
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The test that detects if memory blips are early dementia or just old age, as 60% of adults shrug signs off as ageing
A WORD on the tip of the tongue or a forgotten birthday - everyone has occasional memory ... signs of dementia down to old age - rather than the condition itself - but a simple test could help ...
New dementia tool predicts when symptoms will start: ‘Would you want to know?’
Nearly 7 million Americans have been diagnosed with dementia, which slowly erodes memory, thinking skills and the ability to ...
Why Do Taxi Drivers Have a Lower Risk of Alzheimer’s?
The finding has implications for all of us, write Harvard physician-researchers Christopher Worsham and Anupam Jena.
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Doctors Gave AI Chatbots a Cognitive Test. Their Diagnosis? Early Dementia.
Neurologists hope this tongue-in-cheek study will spark serious conversations about AI's limitations and the benefits of a human touch in medicine.
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The eight red flags for dementia – and what to do if you spot them
Dementia is the UK’s leading cause of death – claiming over 75,000 deaths in 2023 alone. While that makes for sobering ...
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Ask the doctor: My elderly mother is getting forgetful and searching for words. Is this the start of dementia?
Question: My mother in her 70s has mild cognitive impairment. She searched for words and forgets thing. It doesn’t majorly impact day to day life, but is this a definite pre-cursor for dementia? I am ...
New evidence links dementia to problems with the brain's waste clearance system
A study from the Keck School of Medicine of USC has tested a biomarker linked to vascular dementia across four separate ...
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Doctors Gave AI Chatbots a Cognitive Test. Their Diagnosis? Early Dementia.
Most scored between 18 and 25, indicating mild cognitive impairment associated with early dementia. Every model outperformed the average person in attention and memory-related tasks. But they all ...
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Study links glymphatic system damage to vascular dementia
A new study from the Keck School of Medicine of USC has tested a biomarker linked to vascular dementia across four separate ...