If a large new trial delivers as hoped, a simple finger-prick could one day help flag Alzheimer's risk long before symptoms ...

The trial seeks to find an easier and less expensive way to detect a disease that affects 1 in 9 people over the age of 65.

What if screening for the diseases that cause dementia could start with something as quick as a finger-prick blood test?

Psychologists have created a simple online test that allows people to gauge just how strong, or fragile, their attention span ...

Challenging the brain with new learning, like a new language, may build cognitive reserve and memory confidence.

In a breakthrough development, scientists developed a new way to identify Lewy body disease, a serious form of dementia, ...

A blood test, combined with an ultrathin material derived from graphite, could significantly advance efforts to detect ...

A revolutionary trial exploring the potential of blood tests to diagnose dementia is now under way at Berkshire Healthcare ...

People over 80 with memory of those in their 50s show less brain shrinkage and other differences. For a Canadian centenarian, ...

A large-scale study of 18,000 study participants showed that people with two genetic variants of the APOE gene tend to have ...

A new study has found that for people with moderate hearing loss, being prescribed hearing aids had little impact on ...