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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Stress more likely to trigger amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI), a precursor for Alzheimer’s disease in elderly people, revealed a new study. A team of researchers from the Albert Einstein ...

Individuals with mild cognitive impairment, especially of the "amnestic subtype" (aMCI), are at increased risk for dementia due to Alzheimer's disease relative to cognitively healthy older adults. Now ...

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 ...