Functional MRI is an attractive method for studying cognitive task-related and resting-state patterns of brain activation and connectivity. Since hippocampal dysfunction has been widely reported in ...

Requiring impairment on 2 memory tests improves prediction of brain atrophy and progression to AD. HealthDay News — Modifying diagnostic criteria to require impairment on at least 2 memory tests for ...

Researchers have found that people with a form of mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a risk factor for developing Alzheimer’s disease, have twice the risk of dying compared with cognitively normal ...

New research describes a potential new therapeutic approach for improving memory and modifying disease progression in patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment. The study finds that excess ...

Researchers at the Duke University Medical Center have found that Alzheimer’s damaged communication pathways between frontal and temporal lobes, which are responsible for short-term as well as ...

A new study has added more detail to what is known already about the connection between olfactory dysfunction and cognitive decline. Results show that in elderly patients, impaired olfaction was ...

Alzheimer disease brings on a tendency to wander, and patients sometimes become disoriented even in the most familiar surroundings. What’s less well known is that problems getting around start very ...

A 'brain training' game developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge could help improve the memory of patients in the very earliest stages of dementia, suggests a study published today in ...

Women make up two-thirds of patients with Alzheimer's disease - so why is it that women are less likely than men to be diagnosed with its precursor, amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI)? This was ...

This release is also available in Chinese on EurekAlert! Chinese. July 16, 2012 – (BRONX, NY) – Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and Montefiore Medical Center ...