Patients with MCI, regardless of subtype, have a higher risk of developing hypertension, diabetes, and hyperlipidemia than cognitively normal individuals.

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 ...

Future Neurology. 2009;4(5):649-662. A further confounding factor is the increasing use of cholinesterase inhibitors in MCI and AD patients in attempts to alleviate or arrest behavioral and cognitive ...

Patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) are consistently slower and less accurate than healthy control persons in making semantic decisions in response to stimuli ...

Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is often described as being in- between normal aging and dementia, hence being “stuck in the middle”. Like dementia, cognitive decline is present, though not as severe.

Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are at an increased risk of cognitive impairment, with a notably higher likelihood of developing non-amnestic mild cognitive impairment.

Early clues of Alzheimer’s may show up with a quick, no-effort brainwave check called Fastball EEG. Developed at the University of Bath with colleagues at the University of Bristol, this three-minute ...

A study led by linguists has found that early linguistic signs of dementia can be detected through the study of the natural speech of senior Singaporeans. The novel study revealed that participants ...

A study led by linguists from the Department of English, Linguistics and Theatre Studies (ELTS) at the NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) has found that early linguistic signs of dementia ...