These tests cannot be used on their own to diagnose dementia. But they can help the specialist work out the type of problem ... There are different versions of these tests, which have different names.

“The current gold standard test, the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE ... attending a memory clinic who had been diagnosed with dementia or mild memory impairment. Controls attained an ...

Dr Bing also suggested other tests that can be used to detect dementia at home, such as a smell test, because early dementia often affects the smell centre of your brain. Therefore, problems ...

A new poll has found as many as six in 10 adults put early signs of dementia down to old age - rather than the condition itself - but a simple test could help tell the difference between the two.

Dementia is currently diagnosed via a series of question-and-answer tests. Known as the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), the screening test evaluates a patient’s short-term memory ...

A SIMPLE blood test that could catch dementia before major symptoms start has begun trials in NHS clinics. More than 3,000 Brits worried about their brain health will be enrolled in the nationwide ...

An Oxfordshire woman with cognitive impairment has been one of the first patients to receive a blood test for dementia in an NHS trial roll-out. Stephanie Everill, 67, from Abingdon, was diagnosed ...

A new test that uses lasers to detect different types of dementia in just seconds could "revolutionise" how the disease is ...

Then a piston struck the platform, whipping it back and forth, and sending the mini-brain sloshing ... a lot to the ability to be able to test the molecular effects of viruses in the brain.” ...