A nonprofit assisting dementia patients and their families gave out free memory screenings in southeast Grand Rapids Thursday ...

Shrinkage begins in our 30s and 40s, with the prefrontal cortex, cerebellum and hippocampus experiencing the most significant ...

“The current gold standard test, the Mini-Mental State Examination ... a memory clinic who had been diagnosed with dementia or mild memory impairment. Controls attained an average score of ...

and the Blessed Information Memory Concentration Test (BIMCT) was as effective in predicting cognitive decline and dementia as amyloid imaging, a widely used but expensive method. Of the ...

In other words, dementia isn’t a specific disease ... thinking and/or memory impairments. The conditions of the test include that it must be taken alone and that there cannot be any clocks ...

Other significant predictors included an impaired 12-item Brief Smell Identification Test (BSIT), impaired modified Blessed Information Memory Concentration Test (BIMCT), magnetic resonance ...

Diagnosing dementia can take more than two years with current diagnostic tools, which can include brain scans and memory tests. Many people do not receive a diagnosis until a much later stage in ...

Diagnosing dementia is notoriously time-consuming, often taking over two years using traditional methods such as brain scans and memory tests. Unfortunately, many patients don't get diagnosed ...

Diagnosing dementia can take up to two years with current diagnostic tools, which can include brain scans and memory tests. The researchers said many people do not receive a diagnosis until a much ...

In the last two years, two drugs have been federally approved to slow the onset of Alzheimer's disease in its early stages, ...

including Alzheimer's and vascular dementia, which are progressive and worsen over time. The existing diagnostic tools, including brain scans and memory tests, can take over two years to provide a ...