Cognitive decline is a critical but often overlooked complication of high blood pressure. While elevated blood pressure is widely recognized as a leading risk factor for cardiovascular disease and ...

A clock drawing test for detecting cognitive dysfunction should be conducted routinely in patients with high blood pressure, according to new research. A clock drawing test for detecting cognitive ...

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 ...

The “Sweet 16” proved superior to the popular Mini-Mental State Exam. The Mini-Mental State Exam, a simple tool for assessing cognitive function in older adults, compares well with and may be easier ...

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 ...

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 ...

Munich, Germany - UNDER EMBARGO UNTIL 27 Aug 2018: A clock drawing test for detecting cognitive dysfunction should be conducted routinely in patients with high blood pressure, according to research ...