Sentences with phrase «detect early cognitive»

«That was illuminating and will serve to inform future work aimed at understanding and detecting the earliest cognitive manifestations of Alzheimer's disease,» Monti said.

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And if issues are detected early, the right treatments can potentially improve cognitive function.

New speech analysis tests could also help doctors screen for several other cognitive and mental health ailments, such as dementia and depression, that can be difficult to detect in their early stages.

Now, researchers in The Netherlands have coupled machine learning methods with a special MRI technique that measures the perfusion, or tissue absorption rate, of blood throughout the brain to detect early forms of dementia, such as mild cognitive impairment (MCI), according to a new study published online in the journal Radiology.

Brain imaging using radioactive dye can detect early evidence of Alzheimer's disease that may predict future cognitive decline among adults with mild or no cognitive impairment, according to a 36 - month follow - up study led by Duke Medicine.

The fact that cognitive impairments were seen at the pre-plaque stage, where Aβ could be detected intraneuronally (by IHC) and in CSF (by MALDI - MS), suggests that a combination of intraneuronal and soluble extracellular Aβ may be responsible for impairing neuronal function at early time points.

We therefore suggest that self - to - self assessments that reflect a cognitive decline from an individual - adjusted baseline may be required to detect early (and yet subtle) memory deficits in pre-symptomatic human AD.

Another result of the Emory - Georgia Tech collaboration is DETECT, a portable device capable of detecting the earliest stage of Alzheimer's disease, mild cognitive impairment, in any environment.

This discovery could mean researchers can detect cognitive defects like autism earlier than ever before.