The easily administered Fragmented Letters Test can accurately identify whether mild to moderate dementia is associated with Lewy body disease or Alzheimer's disease, new research suggests.

Doctoral student from the School of Natural Sciences and Health Valdar Tammik defended his doctoral thesis 'Relationships between dominant structure of word meanings and visual figure discrimination'.

A new MIT study finds that Alzheimer's disease disrupts at least one form of visual memory by degrading a newly identified circuit that connects the vision processing centers of each brain hemisphere.