Early cognitive problems documented among those who eventually get Alzheimer's
People who study or treat Alzheimer?s disease and its earliest clinical stage, mild cognitive impairment (MCI), have focused attention on the obvious short-term memory problems. But a new study suggests that people on the road to Alzheimer?s may actually have problems early on in processing semantic or knowledge-based information, which could have much broader implications for how patients function in their lives. View full story