People with better cognitive health are at lower risk of later Alzheimer's disease, but genetics can interfere with this, ...

Increases in the number of people living with dementia and in ... views of cognitive testing (for example, level of agreement with the statement, “Cognitive assessments are a good addition ...

For example, the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) test cutoffs for detecting dementia were established in mostly white populations and were too high in a study of mostly Black or Hispanic ...

Unbeknownst to me, my doctor had used one of the most commonly used cognitive assessment ... for example, and he can’t use them to make a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease.

The study is a nationally representative sample of about 20,000 ... the strongest barrier to seeking cognitive assessments, follow-up appointments and dementia treatments. If testing were free ...

Unlike existing treatments for Alzheimer’s that target unhealthy protein deposits, the new approach developed at UC San Diego ...

Neuropsychological assessment, or cognitive testing, is the gold standard tool for measuring cognitive functions (or the “software” of the brain) such as memory, language, attention ...