Dementia and Alzheimer Disease

Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending March 17, 2023.

Marcus Carstensen, PhD candidate, CTO and co-founder of OptoCeutics in Copenhagen, Denmark, talked about the mechanisms of using noninvasive light technologies for Alzheimer disease treatment.

In honor of Brain Awareness Week, a group of experts in the care of patients with neurological conditions—Ronald C. Petersen, MD, PhD; Brian Grosberg, MD, FAHS; James Beck, PhD; Michael Levy, MD, PhD; Stanley H. Appel, MD —shared their perspectives on hot topics of treatment and management in neurology.

Plasma P-tau217 was associated with cognitive decline across several cognitive tests in 2 different cohorts and with conversion to AD dementia in the large-scale, longitudinal BioFINDER-1 cohort.

Originally approved under the accelerated approval pathway, a final decision on a traditional approval for lecanemab is expected to come in early July.

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Neurology News Network for the week ending March 11, 2023. [WATCH TIME: 3 minutes]

Literature reveals an inconsistency in sex differences between women and men, among individuals living with dementia with Lewy bodies and their caregivers.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending March 10, 2023.

On PET imaging, amyloid continued to accumulate over time, with participants in the solanezumab and placebo groups showing similar increases over time.

Newly approved lab-based blood assessing traumatic brain injury rules out the need for CT scan and eliminates wait time at hospitals.

Supplementary data from the phase 3 Clarity AD study served as the basis for the lecanemab’s new review, for which a decision is expected to come by July 6, 2023.

A panel discusses the latest progress in treatment, current diagnostic processes, and various therapies that have advanced through the pipeline.

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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 Alzheimer disease and dementia.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending March 3, 2023.

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Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending February 24, 2023.

To honor Black History Month, NeurologyLive® spoke with influential Black clinicians on the leaders they look up to, the ongoing fight to overcome racial disparities, and ways to encourage diversity in health care.

To honor Black History Month, NeurologyLive® spoke with influential Black clinicians on the leaders they look up to, the ongoing fight to overcome racial disparities, and ways to encourage diversity in health care.

To honor Black History Month, NeurologyLive® spoke with influential Black clinicians on the leaders they look up to, the ongoing fight to overcome racial disparities, and ways to encourage diversity in health care.

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

Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending February 17, 2023.

Physicians were nearly 3 times more likely to prescribe treatments for symptoms of suspected dementia with a positive DISCERN result.

To honor Black History Month, NeurologyLive® spoke with influential Black clinicians on the leaders they look up to, the ongoing fight to overcome racial disparities, and ways to encourage diversity in health care.