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You hear the term now and again, “MCI". Someone might say it’s what your aging loved one has. Is it a diagnosis? Doctors use the term, but no one seems to exactly pin down what it means. How mild is ...

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Researchers discover a paradox: high cognitive performance predicts depressive relapse, contradicting traditional expectations.

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While clinicians commonly gauge a person's Alzheimer’s disease risk by the amount of Aβ42 in their cerebrospinal fluid, it is unclear exactly what shorter peptide fragments mean in this regard.

New data from the Cocoa Supplement and Multivitamin Outcomes Study (COSMOS) suggest that a daily multivitamin may help protect the aging brain. However, at least one expert has concerns about the ...

Genetic liability to long sleep and early chronotype were associated with lower baseline cognitive performance in older ...