Medically reviewed by Huma Sheikh, MD Key Takeaways The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) can detect early signs of dementia in just 10 minutes.A MoCA score of 26 or higher is considered normal ...

To help detect early signs of dementia, the MoCA assesses various cognitive functions like memory, attention, language, and more. Screening tests for dementia offer a way to identify impairments in a ...

Results revealed current cut points may lead to a high false-positive rate, prompting a call for lower thresholds in both language versions to enhance diagnostic accuracy. A new study aimed to ...

Heart failure is linked to worse global cognitive performance, with patients who have reduced ejection fraction facing the highest impairment risk.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Experts recommend using the Montreal Cognitive Assessment to identify high-risk patients on dialysis with both ...

University of Queensland researchers have adapted an internationally used test which screens patients for dementia and Alzheimer's disease, to make it suitable for people with hearing loss. Professor ...