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 ...

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 ...

Noting that most current methods of diagnosing cognitive diseases can only detect impairment after the disorders have taken hold, researchers at MIT have combined digital pen technology and some ...

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 ...