Sentences with phrase «identifying mild cognitive impairment»

A second study conducted in Thailand found that the digit span test was effective in identifying mild cognitive impairment, while the verbal fluency test did not demonstrate that ability.

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For instance, researchers at IBM Research in Haifa, Israel, are developing a five - minute screening tool that uses voice recordings and computer analysis to identify people with mild cognitive impairment, a precursor to dementia.

Physicians have no definitive way of identifying who has early dementia or which cases of mild cognitive impairment will progress to Alzheimer's disease.

«Mild cognitive impairment has been identified as the transitional stage between normal aging and dementia,» comments M. Arfan Ikram, MD, PhD, a neuroepidemiologist at Erasmus MC University Medical Center (Rotterdam).

The new blood test will initially be used to identify those people with mild cognitive impairment who are likely to get Alzheimer's disease and so might be good candidates for clinical trials to find drugs that halt disease progression.

The team identified 16 proteins that were strongly associated with brain shrinkage in people with mild cognitive impairment or Alzheimer's.

For example, using a transgenic marmoset model of Alzheimer's disease, clinicians and basic researchers are working together to identify the changes in the brain's circuitry during mild cognitive impairment and very early stages of Alzheimer's.

At the start of the study, blood caffeine levels were 51 % lower in participants identified as having mild cognitive impairment who progressed to Alzheimer's over the 2 to 4 year follow up compared to those whose mild cognitive impairment stayed stable throughout the same period.

In terms of an actual diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment, however, the researchers only identified 37 people who developed that condition during the study, and the diets didn't have a significant effect on the risk for that diagnosis.