A WORD on the tip of the tongue or a forgotten birthday – everyone has occasional memory blanks. While forgetting things ...

It contains 30 questions and takes 10 minutes to complete. While the MOCA test is useful in detecting dementia, it cannot differentiate between the different dementia types. There are advantages and ...

Is it dementia? A popular neurologist uses five simple tests of cognitive function to help gauge the health of a patient's ...

Test questions ask you to name images ... such as the clock-drawing test. This classic dementia test requires you to draw the face of an analog clock and position the hands at a specific time.

Nearly 7 million Americans have been diagnosed with dementia, which slowly erodes memory, thinking skills and the ability to ...

so testing to eliminate these possibilities is essential. What Type of Dementia Is It? Some people don't ask this question because they don't want to know. And some clinicians use the word "dementia" ...

Objective: To verify that the task induces robust incidental or effortless learning (study 1), and to study the efficiency of the test as a discriminator between early dementia of the Alzheimer type ...

By analysing the types of bacteria in the mouth - known as the oral microbiome - experts believe they can identify risky ...

This discovery offers hope for identifying individuals at high risk of developing dementia long before noticeable symptoms such as memory loss or behavioral changes occur. A simple blood test ...

From actor Wang Xing's rescue to a clock-drawing test for dementia, here are a few highlights from SCMP's recent reporting We ...