Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder affecting about 1% of the population worldwide, and is notoriously difficult to treat. Current treatments successfully target the disorder's positive symptoms ...

Depression, sometimes called major depressive disorder, can hurt your ability to think through even simple daily tasks. Doctors call this decline in thinking skills "cognitive impairment." Cognitive ...

Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are at an increased risk of cognitive impairment, with a notably higher likelihood of developing non-amnestic mild cognitive impairment.

—A long-term study, which followed patients for 25 years, found that individuals with schizophrenia and other psychoses were at higher risk of mild-to-moderate and severe impairment relative to adults ...

The approval of a controversial new drug for Alzheimer’s disease, Aduhelm, is shining a spotlight on mild cognitive impairment (MCI) — problems with memory, attention, language or other cognitive ...