Dementia is expected to proliferate along with the super elderly. So health practitioners are focused on screening for it.

As dementia rates rise sharply across South Asia, early detection of cognitive decline has become increasingly urgent but practical, scalable screening tools remain scarce. A new pilot study tested a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A psychologist who checks business leaders and doctors for cognitive decline shared how he does it. His assessment takes about an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A portion of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, a 10-minute test designed to detect mild cognitive impairment such as the onset of ...

Analyzing the Mini-Cog score as a continuous variable, it was found to have a nearly linear negative correlation with POD risk: for each 1-point increase in the score, the risk of POD decreased by 23% ...

President Donald Trump’s boast that he “aced” a cognitive test is not the only reason these brain fitness tests are becoming a bigger part of the national health conversation. These screening tools ...

President Biden is facing calls to undergo cognitive testing and release the results after his disastrous debate last month, and amid a series of reports about his apparent decline in recent months.