A new study found that it is possible to identify early signs of dementia many years before symptoms appear using a simple ...

A new digital version of the types of assessments carried out in NHS memory clinics has received government funding to be ...

A new class of biomarker tests are able to diagnose some Alzheimer's cases. The next step would be predicting it: Here's ...

A blood biomarker for Alzheimer's disease also indicates damage to the heart and kidneys, complicating early and clinical ...

Researchers say elevated p-tau217 levels in older women were strongly linked to future dementia, raising hopes for earlier ...

Dementia is expected to proliferate along with the super elderly. So health practitioners are focused on screening for it.

Experts in the US found that higher levels of a protein called p-tau217 were an accurate predictor of people developing ...

Despite a lot of advancements in our understanding of dementia over the past few decades, doctors still don’t have a reliable way to tell who will develop the devastating condition. There's been quite ...

A decline in brain function interfering with daily living isn’t a normal part of aging. Dementia is on the rise, more than ...

Dementia can be predicted in women up to 25 years before symptoms begin through a simple blood test, according to new research. A protein measured in blood samples is "strongly linked" to the future ...

Women with higher levels of p-tau217, a blood protein, were twice as likely to eventually develop dementia or mild cognitive impairment.

(fotostorm/E+/Getty Images) Diagnostic tests are continuing to get better at spotting the earliest signs of dementia, and new ...