Dementia and Alzheimer Disease

Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending May 17, 2024.

Voyager expects insights from the phase 1a study to inform a subsequent phase 1b trial and anticipates tau PET imaging data in 2026.

The subcutaneous autoinjector, which facilitates 360 mg weekly maintenance dosing of lecanemab, takes less time to administer than the approved intravenous formulation and may lead to less hospital visits and nursing care.

The director of the Brain Health Imaging Institute in the department of radiology at Weill Cornell Medicine talked about exploring nasal pathways as an alternative for brain protein sampling and drug delivery. [WATCH TIME: 4 minutes]

Panelists delve into the amyloid cascade hypothesis of Alzheimer's disease and the ongoing debate surrounding it, discussing the presence and potential roles of Aβ monomers, oligomers, protofibrils, and amyloid plaques in patients with Alzheimer's disease.

The panel provides an overview of amyloid precursor protein (APP) and the generation of amyloid β (Aβ) peptides, Aβ42 and Aβ40, while also discussing which soluble or insoluble Aβ species (monomers, oligomers, protofibrils, or amyloid plaques) contribute to neuronal damage and the clinical manifestation of Alzheimer's disease.

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Bezisterim-treated patients showed age deceleration across various DNA methylation clocks, indicating potential anti-aging effects.

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 on cluster headache.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending May 10, 2024.

Catch up on any of the neurology news headlines you may have missed over the course of April 2024, compiled all into one place by the NeurologyLive® team.

The FDA AdComm will deliberate over the phase 3 TRAILBLAZER-ALZ 2 trial, a large-scale study that assessed the efficacy and safety of donanemab in patients with early-stage Alzheimer disease over an 18-month period.

The phase 1 open-label, dose-escalation study will include 9 participants with mild-to-moderate Alzheimer disease whose treatment is not addressed adequately by available therapy.

Neal K. Shah, CEO of CareYaya Health Technologies, discussed how Apple's expected announcement of new iPads with OLED displays could revolutionize cognitive health and dementia care for older adults.

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A recent case series showed concerning trends of neurological conditions from mosquito-borne diseases impacting patients living in Canada and the United States.

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 on treatment-refractory epilepsy.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending May 3, 2024.

Tanisha Hill-Jarrett, PhD, an assistant professor of neurology at the University of California, San Francisco Memory and Aging Center, discussed the change needed to improve cognitive decline rates in Black women in disadvantaged neighborhoods.

Phase 2 biomarker trial participants who completed 156 weeks of treatment were offered enrollment into another 52-week extension to continue to observe safety, assessments of plasma biomarkers, and cognitive effects, among others.

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.

The FDA approval of Medtronic’s spinal cord stimulator makes it the first on the market to offer a closed-loop feature that senses biological signals along the spinal cord and automatically adjusts stimulation in real time for chronic pain.

Neal K. Shah, CEO of CareYaya Health Technologies, discussed how emerging neurotechnology, such as mobile EEG devices paired with customized AI and machine learning models, is poised to transform the fight against dementia.

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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 on primary progressive aphasia.