A clinical trial suggests that low-dose lithium may slow the decline of verbal memory in older adults with mild cognitive impairment and amyloid-beta.

Eighty percent of older adults see the benefit of tests that can give an early warning that a person's memory and thinking abilities have started to decline, a new poll of people age 65 to 80 finds.

A recent study shows that accessible blood tests can accurately identify Alzheimer’s disease. When combined with standard cognitive assessments, these tools offer a reliable diagnostic approach for ...

Do you know your friends’ mobile numbers by heart? Or struggle to remember what you had for dinner last night? How well our memory works might be determined by a complex combination of genes, ...

New study results from the COSMOS trial offer additional evidence regarding the benefit of Centrum Silver multivitamins on cognitive health in older adults. The third independent cognition trial to ...

A large-scale study led by researchers at Columbia and Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard is the first to establish that a diet low in flavanols—nutrients found in certain fruits and ...

A long-term study of older adults with moderate hearing loss found that hearing aids did not lead to better performance on memory or thinking tests, but the story did not end there. Over seven years, ...

Eating fatty food in the days leading up to surgery may prompt a heightened inflammatory response in the brain that interferes for weeks with memory-related cognitive function in older adults -- and, ...