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

It seemed like a sensible suggestion for assessing the capabilities of an 81-year-old man seeking voters’ approval to remain in the White House until January 2029. To reassure the American people, ABC ...

Sunny Hostin observed that "they say that toddlers have passed" the same test. "Do you think he knew it was a cognitive test and not an IQ test?" Sara Haines asked. Moderator Whoopi Goldberg, 69, ...

Occasional use of classic psychedelics like LSD and psilocybin is not associated with cognitive decline and might actually be ...

Doctors explain the signs to look for, and how to get evaluated. By Dana G. Smith Mike Davis’s mother died from Alzheimer’s disease in 2008. So when Mr. Davis started noticing that he was having an ...

Political opponents, armchair pundits and even nervous supporters are demanding that President Joe Biden undergo such testing after his dismal debate performance – even though his physician says he ...

Joe Biden and Donald Trump are, respectively, the oldest and second oldest presidents in American history. As both attack each other over their mental acuity in the 2024 election, they have also ...

Israeli neurologists gave leading AI chatbots the cognitive exam used to assess U.S. presidents' mental fitness, in a study intended as a wisecrack—but it found "real flaws" in technology increasingly ...

Neuropsychological assessment, or cognitive testing, is the gold standard tool for measuring cognitive functions (or the “software” of the brain) such as memory, language, attention, visuospatial ...

Objectives To evaluate the association between cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) and cognition in a large sample of older adults, and to examine clinical and demographic factors that might moderate ...