Dementia and Alzheimer Disease

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

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 Alzheimer disease and dementia.

Neurology News Network for the week ending March 1, 2024. [WATCH TIME: 3 minutes]

Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending March 1, 2024.

Caroline Just, MD, reflects on the challenges of diagnosing and treating rare neurological diseases, urging for improved education, collaboration, and research efforts.

The antisense oligonucleotide will continue to be assessed in a large-scale phase 3 study, CARDIO-TTRansform, which will have data read out in 2025.

In a recent study, a new blood test displayed remarkable accuracy in detecting Alzheimer disease pathology, showing its potential as an essential screening tool.

Here's some of what is coming soon to NeurologyLive® this week.

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 and hypersomnias.

The study suggests a potential link between poor oral health and changes in brain health, emphasizing the importance of oral care.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending February 23, 2024.

The executive director of the Lead (Leaders Engaged on Alzheimer’s Disease) Coalition provided thoughts on the journey and lessons learned from aducanumab (Aduhelm) following Biogen’s decision to remove it from market. [WATCH TIME: 8 minutes]

Here's some of what is coming soon to NeurologyLive® this week.

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 multiple sclerosis.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending February 16, 2024.

Cynthia Tsai, MD, PhD, assistant professor of neurology at National Taiwan University College of Medicine, shared her clinical viewpoint on findings from a study presented at ISC 2024 using amyloid PET scans to differentiate between CAA and AD.

Eleonora Tornatore-Mikesh, chief executive officer of CaringKind, The Heart of Alzheimer's Caregiving, and an anonymous caregiver, spoke about their perspective with caring for a loved one who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer disease.

After showing inconsistent results in previous trials, AVP-786 did not demonstrate statistically significant outcomes vs placebo on the primary outcome of change in Cohen-Mansfield Agitation Inventory.

Here's some of what is coming soon to NeurologyLive® this week.

A recent study highlighted the elevated risk of liver diseases, particularly hepatic encephalopathy, in veterans with dementia who lacked a cirrhosis diagnosis.

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 neuromuscular disorders, and specifically, Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending February 9, 2024.

Here's some of what is coming soon to NeurologyLive® this week.

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 stroke.

Neurology News Network for the week ending February 3, 2024. [WATCH TIME: 3 minutes]