A new study published in the Journal of Affective Disorders provides evidence that while depression in early adolescence is ...

Half a million Americans will be diagnosed with dementia this year. That represents a 42% jump in the risk that someone age 55 or older will develop the life-altering condition. In fact, an ...

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Helping more people get diagnosed earlier could be a significant step forward in the fight against the dreaded disease.

A groundbreaking study published in the medical journal Neurology has revealed a critical link between feeling excessively sleepy during daylight hours and a pre-dementia condition known as motoric ...

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New research shows that poor air quality could be causing cognitive problems in babies and toddlers. A new study reveals an association between poor air quality in India and impaired cognition in ...

Survey data showed that a third of Parkinson's patients reported a cognitive symptom soon after diagnosis. Most common were problems with memory, language or word finding, and concentration or ...

President Joe Biden said Friday that his poor performance in last week’s debate was a bad night but not evidence of a serious condition. “I have medical doctors traveling everywhere. Every president ...

Cognition is the cornerstone of human potential, enabling knowledge acquisition, processing information, solving problems, and finding meaning. By sharpening cognitive skills—reasoning, ...

A group of studies, all conducted independently, have reached a similar sobering conclusion: sleep problems—including several common sleep difficulties faced by millions of people on a regular ...