A pattern of inflammatory activity in circulating blood cells just two days after a stroke predicts the loss of substantial mental acuity a full year later.
Tag: dementia
New app screens for undiagnosed cases of Alzheimer’s disease
With half of all cases of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias going undiagnosed, researchers develop app to help in early screening
Get up and dance: A singer-songwriter explores how music can help dementia
A Stanford video highlights the impact of music on people with memory disorders.
Pause before hospitalizing the elderly, Stanford researchers say
Putting patients with dementia into the hospital, unless absolutely necessary, can do more harm than good, according to an editorial recently published in the Journal …
Artificial intelligence can help predict who will develop dementia, a new study finds
If you could find out that you were likely to develop Alzheimer’s, would you want to know? Researchers from McGill University argue that patients and …
Strong association found between vision loss and cognitive decline
In a nationally representative sample of older adults in the United States, Stanford researchers found a strong relationship between visual impairment and cognitive decline, as …