15 December 2025 in Neurology, Cognitive Assessment, Education
Fewer than one in ten people eligible for an Alzheimer's study take part, and the share is lower among underserved and minority communities. The barriers are practical rather than a matter of willingness, and they shape whose results …
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25 November 2025 in Cognitive Health, Memory Health, Early Detection, Education
Holiday gatherings are when families tend to notice a change, because you are comparing against a memory from last year rather than against yesterday. Here is what separates ordinary forgetting from a pattern worth checking, how to raise …
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10 October 2025 in Cognitive Health, Memory Health, Health, Education
Start with the good news, because it is rarer than it should be in this subject. In a study of 10,189 people followed for 28 years, depression during working life did not raise the risk of dementia at …
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16 September 2025 in Health, Wellness, Brain Health, Education
In the U.S. POINTER trial, both groups improved their thinking over two years. That is the finding worth having, and if you are doing this on your own it is the one that matters: nothing in the trial …
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12 August 2025 in Health, Wellness, Brain Health, Education
A two-year trial followed 2,111 older adults at raised risk of cognitive decline, assigning each of them to one of two lifestyle programs aimed at the same four things. Both groups improved. The structured program improved more, and …
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15 July 2025 in Memory Testing & Tools, Cognitive Assessment, Education
A memory screen can help settle one thing: whether your performance warrants a closer look. It cannot, by itself, settle whether you have Alzheimer's disease, or any other specific cause. What it does is compare how you are …
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10 June 2025 in Memory Testing & Tools, Early Detection, Cognitive Assessment, Education
Blood tests for Alzheimer's disease look for one thing: the amyloid and tau proteins associated with Alzheimer's disease. That is a genuine advance, and it is narrower than a dementia check. They do not detect vascular dementia, they …
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20 May 2025 in Memory Health, Early Detection, Neurology, Cognitive Assessment
As we move through our 50s, 60s, and beyond, many of us notice changes in how we remember things. Names might take longer to come to mind. We might walk into a room and forget why we went …
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13 May 2025 in Memory Testing & Tools, Health, Neurology, Cognitive Testing, Cognitive Assessment
The reassuring part first. Forgetting a name or losing your train of thought mid-sentence is ordinary at any age, and most people who worry about their memory turn out to be fine. So the useful question is not …
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4 May 2025 in Cognitive Health, Health, Memory, Neurology, Cognitive Testing, Cognitive Assessment
Most people who take an at-home memory test are not in crisis. They want a straight answer to something they have been quietly wondering about, and getting that answer early is the whole point: the changes worth catching …
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