What your score looks like Here is an example of a Cognitive Function Test result. This person scored highly and, in the cognitive domains tested, currently does not show cognitive impairment. How we classify scores A score of 54.2 is the average expected score, and we expect most...
About Alzheimer's disease What could be worse than losing your mind, while your body has many years to run? Yet, that is precisely what happens to three in ten people over the age of 70. In Europe alone 1 million people develop impaired memory every year, more than half of which will be later...
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Just one night of little sleep can have a significant impact on our mental wellbeing and cognitive function. Although it may appear that our brain completely switches off whilst we’re sleeping, it is actually performing highly sophisticated tasks and is very far from being...
After the festive period, many will be feeling the negative impact of alcohol and food indulgence. In an effort to allow the body to recalibrate and shake-off the resulting low energy, brain fog and low mood, taking up Dry January is often a key strategy to start the year off on a good...
SAD, which stands for Seasonal Affective Disorder, isn’t just a case of the winter blues. It is a form of major depression and can be seriously debilitating, causing symptoms such as chronic low mood, excessive sleeping, carbohydrate cravings, irritability, poor concentration, low libido and...
Worldwide 46.8 million people have dementia. In the UK, 1 in 14 people over 65 have Alzheimer’s, the most prevalent form of dementia; and increasingly dementia sufferers are also struggling with other chronic conditions, such as diabetes and depression. Research on new strategies for...
In the UK, at any one time about 220,000 people are being treated for schizophrenia by the NHS. Whilst it is a less common mental health condition, statistics show that there is a higher risk associated to suicide and greater vulnerability to physical conditions like diabetes, perhaps due to...
