Dementia and Alzheimer Disease

Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending April 21, 2023.

Greater cumulative exposure to HbA1c concentrations in the range of 6% to less than 8%, targets proposed by most geriatrics’ guidelines for healthier older people, were associated with lower hazard of dementia.

The director of the Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute at Weill Cornell Medicine talked about brain health in relation to vascular health ahead of the 2023 AAN annual meeting. [WATCH TIME: 3 minutes]

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Disease-modifying agents will require early detection, including comprehensive evaluation of disease severity and alternative or confounding diagnoses. When the long-awaited moment arrives, when disease-modifying therapies finally are available for ADRDs…will we be ready?

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 and cerebrovascular disease.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending April 14, 2023.

The FDA is expected to make a decision by May 10, 2023, whether brexpiprazole will become the first approved therapy for Alzheimer disease agitation.

ARIA-inducing monoclonal antibodies accelerated ventricular enlargement to a point where a striking correlation between ventricular volume and ARIA frequency was observed.

The neurosurgeon at Marcus Neuroscience Institute, Baptist Health, provided perspective on invasive procedures for degenerative conditions and when deep brain stimulation is needed.

Compared with children without posttraumatic headache, those who experienced migraine symptoms following concussion were nearly 3 times more likely to report reliable increases in somatic symptoms.

Positive phase 2 data on CVN424, NETSseq platforms, and CVN417, a novel treatment for Parkinson disease, were presented at AD/PD 2023 International Conference.

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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 multiple sclerosis (MS).

Neurology News Network for the week ending April 8, 2023. [WATCH TIME: 4 minutes]

Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending April 7, 2023.

Treatment with neflamapimod was associated with statistically significantly higher functional dynamic connectivity, with almost half of the cohort experiencing a greater than 10% increase over time.

Amyloid clearance was achieved by 75% of participants who received remternetug at doses ranging from 700 to 2800 mg IV Q4Q by day 169.

By the end of the open label long-term extension study, BIIB080 reduced aggregated tau pathology in all dose groups assessed across all brain composites.

Investigators exercised caution when considering administration of antithrombotics or a thrombolytic agent for patients on lecanemab as cases of intracerebral hemorrhage of more than 1cm have been observed.

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Statistically significant improvements in several quantitative test measures of episodic memory, attentiveness, and depressive emotional bias were observed in patients treated with clenbuterol and nadolol.

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 Parkinson disease (PD).

Neurology News Network for the week ending April 1, 2023. [WATCH TIME: 4 minutes]

In honor of Traumatic Brain Injury Month, held on March 2023, get caught up on some of the latest news in traumatic brain injury as the NeurologyLive® team shares some of our data updates.