Dementia and Alzheimer Disease

The NeurologyLive dementia and Alzheimer disease clinical focus page provides information, podcasts, videos, and news about the latest FDA actions, clinical guideline updates, study and clinical trial findings, and interviews with physicians related to the care of patients with dementia and similar diseases, including Lewy body dementia, frontotemporal dementia, Alzheimer disease, and more.

Episode 53: A Landmark Year for Alzheimer Disease

Mind Moments™, a podcast from NeurologyLive®, brings you an exclusive interview with Anton Porsteinsson, MD.

Testing for Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease

Alireza Atri, MD, PhD, discusses the many methods of testing and forming a diagnosis for patients with Alzheimer’s disease, highlighting the recent FDA approval of aducanumab and its impact.

NeuroVoices: George Grossberg, MD, on Telehealth for Degenerative Disease Neuropsychiatric Symptoms

The Samuel W. Fordyce professor and director of Geriatric Psychiatry at the St Louis University School of Medicine provided insight on critical aspects of telehealth use for assessing and managing psychosis in patients with neurodegenerative diseases.

This Week on NeurologyLive® — May 23, 2022

May 23, 2022

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NeurologyLive® Brain Games: May 22, 2022

May 22, 2022

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Test your neurology knowledge with NeurologyLive®'s weekly quiz series, featuring questions on a variety of clinical and historical neurology topics. This week's topic is neuropathic disorders.

Diazepam Increased Time Between Cluster Intervals, Higher Dose Nusinersen Shows Extra Benefit, Lecanemab BLA Submitted

May 21, 2022

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Neurology News Network for the week ending May 21, 2022. [WATCH TIME: 4 minutes]

NeurologyLive® Friday 5 — May 20, 2022

May 20, 2022

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Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending May 20, 2022.

Understanding Connectomics and the Power of Artificial Intelligence to Help Improve Brian Mapping: Michael Sughrue, MD

May 20, 2022

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The founder and chief medical officer of Omniscient Neurotechnology discussed the idea behind connectomics and how AI revolutionizes large-scale brain data. [WATCH TIME: 4 minutes]

Progress in Neurogenerative Disease Drug Development: Gregory A. Rippon, MD, MS

May 19, 2022

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The chief medical partner of neurology, ophthalmology, and internal medicine at Genentech shared his perspective on the steps the field has taken to improve clinical trials and therapies for neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer disease. [WATCH TIME: 3 minutes]

AlzoSure Predict Test Shows Predictive Ability for Alzheimer Disease Years Prior to Diagnosis

May 17, 2022

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The blood test from Diadem SpA, which quantifies the AZ 284 peptide as readout of U-p53AZ, showed a significantly higher AUC in both time-independent and time-dependent prognostic analyses than gold standard testing.

The Current State and Future Promise of Neurology

May 17, 2022

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The importance of addressing disorders of the brain cannot be overstated, and doing so will be essential to our generation and generations to come.

This Week on NeurologyLive® — May 16, 2022

May 16, 2022

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Here's what is coming soon to NeurologyLive®.

NeurologyLive® Brain Games: May 15, 2022

May 15, 2022

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Test your neurology knowledge with NeurologyLive®'s weekly quiz series, featuring questions on a variety of clinical and historical neurology topics. This week's topic is sleep disorders.

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