Cognitive issues are more common as you age, but a shocking new study finds that these mental complications are jumping up in younger adults. The study, which was published in the journal Neurology in ...

When people lose their train of thought, they sometimes refer to it as having a "senior moment." But those moments are not so senior after all, and they actually have been rising sharply among young ...

Scores on a memory test dropped as football experience rose, and the pattern held across thousands of former players. This trend was the focus of a large analysis of retired American football players ...

Screening for cognitive impairment and referring people for outpatient cognitive evaluation in the emergency department is feasible due to the high percentage of patients who are ultimately diagnosed ...

Is hypothyroidism linked to dementia? According to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), approximately 5 out of 100 Americans (5%) have hypothyroidism. This ...

A group of studies, all conducted independently, have reached a similar sobering conclusion: sleep problems—including several common sleep difficulties faced by millions of people on a regular ...

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