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 ...

It happens from time to time: You start telling a story, only to lose your train of thought halfway through. Or you walk into a room and can't remember what you went in there to do. Mental glitches ...

(Smile/Getty Images) Early signs of Alzheimer's disease may be hidden in the way a person speaks, but it's not yet clear ...

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 ...

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 ...

Self-reported feelings of frequent loneliness or lack of close friends as a child or teenager were associated with greater likelihood of cognitive decline and incident dementia in middle-to-late ...

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 ...

Problems with memory and thinking are very common after a stroke. Up to 60% of stroke survivors may have some type of cognitive impairment in the first year after a stroke. Cognitive impairments and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As they get older, many people experience physical decline, which can sometimes affect their ability to drive. Wolfram Kastl/dpa ...