ATLANTA — Emory Healthcare is working to implement a test used to detect Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia. The clock-drawing test, which is typically part of a larger Mini-Cog test, is ...

Early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease can make a huge difference in the management of the disease, and this can be achieved by making testing procedures more easily accessible. For that reason, ...

A digital version of the classic clock-drawing test can accurately identify early Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology in asymptomatic patients in less than 5 minutes, new research shows. Investigators ...

A new dementia-prediction tool could diagnose conditions earlier, and with greater accuracy by using digital pen technology. Read more: Alzheimer's disease and dementia: what's the difference? The ...

Over the course of my encounters with life and death, I’ve grown to see dementia as one the most tragic ways to go, reducing loved ones to empty husks of their former, once proud selves. And yet, for ...