Some autistic traits related to challenges with social interaction, mental flexibility and visual perception could be alleviated through a new, noninvasive therapy. A team of researchers, including ...

Researchers have found that extracting drawing features from a combination of five drawing tasks -- rather than from any single task alone -- leads to more accurate classification of people with ...

Clinicians can more accurately classify a patient’s cognitive health status by increasing the number and variety of patient diagnostic drawing tasks. That’s according to researchers who aimed to ...

Changes in drawing traits have been reported in people with early-stage cognitive impairments, but most studies have used a single drawing task only. In a study published recently in the Journal of ...

It's normal to be concerned about cognitive decline as we become older, especially considering what increasing problems with memory, attention, and concentration may mean for our day-to-day lives. On ...

Cognitive stimulation therapy (CST) is a short-term, evidence-based, group or individual intervention program for people with mild to moderate dementia or Alzheimer’s disease. The goal of CST is to ...

People in jobs that challenge their brain are less likely to experience cognitive decline and dementia as they get older. A new study looked at the connection between mentally stimulating work and the ...

Cognitive functioning affects how people think and their ability to remember things. Impairment in this area of brain health may cause a decline in how someone responds to their environment mentally ...