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Advocacy and Empowerment: Finding Your Advocacy Community

The Palatucci Advocacy Leadership Forum, or PALF, sponsored by the American Academy of Neurology, gives neurologists and trainees tools to successfully advocate for their ideas and develop their identity as physician advocates.

Applying the Innovation Biodesign Framework to Promote Equity and Green Activity in Dementia Care

Lassell et al present a use case demonstrating the process of moving an unmet need to the “solution space” of the Innovation Biodesign Framework for addressing a healthcare challenge in a specific at-risk population: Alzheimer disease and AD-related dementias.

Insights on the Newly Approved Subcutaneous Infusion Therapy for Parkinson Disease

Jonathan Rubin, MD, MBA, chief medical officer at Supernus Pharmaceuticals, talked about the recent approval of the company’s subcutaneous infusion therapy SPN-830 for Parkinson disease.

Let’s Get Moving: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Gait Rehabilitation in Multiple Sclerosis

Current research pushes to advance therapeutic possibilities and understand underlying neural mechanisms for gait impairments in individuals with the disease.

Purple Day Every Day For Epilepsy Awareness

Alzheimer Disease: Promising Advances Give Patients and Families Hope

William Hu, MD, PhD, FAAN, a neurologist at RWJBarnabas Health’s Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, NJ, shared new advances to detect and treat Alzheimer disease.

Top 8 Neurology Apps

With promising names like "5-Minute Neurology Consult" and "Neurosurgery Survival Guide" the mobile applications in this top-pick list provide immediate and encyclopedic access to the nuts, bolts, and nuances of neurologic practice.

Driving with Cognitive Impairment

Investigators questioned whether cognitive tests could predict driving ability in people with Alzheimer disease and mild cognitive impairment.

What Caused Altered Consciousness in This Middle-Aged Woman?

Take a look at these 3 images and see if you can pinpoint the cause of altered consciousness in this woman.

Neuro-Ophthalmologic Disorders: Issues in Diagnosis and Treatment

Neurologists may be the first or only clinicians to recognize the 5 potentially dangerous neuro-ophthalmologic conditions described in this article.

Epilepsy: Psychological & Behavioral Interventions

There is a pressing need for effective interventions aimed at enhancing psychological well-being and self-management for epilepsy patients.

Sleep Characteristics and Cognition in the Elderly

The HypnoLaus study compared sleep characteristics of individuals older than 65 years of age with and without cognitive impairment.

The Sports Neurologist: A Welcome Addition to the Sideline

Perhaps the Nose Knows: UPSIT and Alzheimer Disease

Does smell identification have any predictive value for later Alzheimer disease?

Stroke Risk Tied to Subjective Memory Complaints

Inquiring about memory in older persons during routine clinical examination may identify persons who might be at higher risk for stroke.

Diazepam as Effective as Lorazepam for Pediatric Status Epilepticus

A Smartphone Approach to Alzheimer Disease Diagnosis and Progression

Researchers are using computer adaptive testing to explore and identify aspects of cognitive performance in a series of computerized neuropsychological tests that best correlate with neurocognitive disease states.

Post-coital Headache

A sudden severe headache with emesis brings a 35-year-old man to the ED. Research on his smart phone has satisfied him that this is a post-coital event and therefore, harmless. He refuses a lumbar puncture.

Tools to Offer TLC for Hatred of Sound

There is no approved screening tool for misophonia, but a case review can lead to a diagnosis. Several treatment options may aid in symptom management.

A Smartphone Approach to Alzheimer Disease Diagnosis and Progression

Researchers are using computer adaptive testing to explore and identify aspects of cognitive performance in a series of computerized neuropsychological tests that best correlate with neurocognitive disease states.

A Smartphone Approach to Alzheimer Disease Diagnosis and Progression

Researchers are using computer adaptive testing to explore and identify aspects of cognitive performance in a series of computerized neuropsychological tests that best correlate with neurocognitive disease states.

Pinning Down the Site of Infarct in a Woman With Altered Consciousness

Concurrent CGRP Inhibitor and OnabotulinumtoxinA Therapy Boosts Relief in Severe Chronic Migraine

For years, study participants had been suffering with migraine symptoms and had failed at least three to five therapies before enrolling in the trial.

Tingling, Numbness in Lower Limbs: A Case Study

What do these images suggest is the cause of bilateral lower limb symptoms of 4 months’ duration?

Parkinson Medication Adherence is Suboptimal

Drugs often involve multiple daily doses with complex dosing regimens, but interventions that have been applied generically to patients with chronic diseases can be applied to these cases as well.

Are We Overdiagnosing ADHD?

How best ensure an accurate ADHD diagnosis in the absence of an established gold-standard or neuroimaging test or biomarker?

Smartphone Headache Diaries: Privacy Pros and Cons

Just how private is that information your patient records in a mobile headache diary?

Loss of Consciousness in an Elderly Woman With Prior CVA: What Cause?

Here, view results of CT of the head and axial FLAIR and axial diffusion-weighted MRI studies. What is in your differential? What is your diagnosis?

Movies Show Male, Female Brains Differ During Smoking

Men and women smoke for different reasons and activate different parts of the brain while smoking. These findings from “dopamine movies” could have implications for Parkinson disease.

Controversy Continues Regarding PPI Use and Dementia

A dementia expert addresses current controversies on proton pump inhibitors.