Memory loss lies on a spectrum, with dementia and Alzheimer's on the advanced end and their earliest signs — called mild cognitive impairment (MCI) — on the other. A person with MCI may not be able to ...

Mild cognitive impairment—lapses such as missing appointments, losing things, and having trouble finding the words to describe something—affects millions of older adults across the United States. Yet ...

MADRID — Primary care is the ideal setting to screen for mild cognitive impairment. Screening can be performed in under 10 minutes using brief cognitive assessment tools. When it comes to treatment, ...

Doctors explain the signs to look for, and how to get evaluated. By Dana G. Smith Mike Davis’s mother died from Alzheimer’s disease in 2008. So when Mr. Davis started noticing that he was having an ...

An estimated 1 in 4 older Americans with dementia or mild cognitive impairment lives alone and is at risk of practices like unsafe driving, wandering outside the home, mixing up medications and ...

If you have mild cognitive impairment (MCI), you may be worried that your condition will progress to dementia. But rest assured, the shift to dementia is not necessarily inevitable. It depends on what ...

Millions of older Americans may be unaware they have memory and thinking impairments -- mostly because their doctors aren't diagnosing them, new research suggests. After analyzing Medicare data ...

Mild cognitive impairment is linked to blood vessel dysfunction in the brain's temporal lobes -- the seat of memory -- according to a new study. The findings, seen in people with and without signs of ...

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