Dementia and Alzheimer Disease

The director of NYU Langone’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and Center for Cognitive Neurology discussed current knowns and unknowns about the pathology of Alzheimer disease. [WATCH TIME: 4 minutes]

In a cohort of nearly 600,000 individuals, the combination of dementia diagnosis and presence of psychiatric comorbidity significantly increased the risk of suicide.

The TRACK-TBI cohort study revealed that patients with traumatic brain injury and a GCS score of 3 to 12 had a significant increase in the accuracy of prognostic accuracy of IMPACT models.

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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 insomnia.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending October 7, 2022.

When hydromethylthionine mesylate was compared with publicly available placebo decline data, the treatment effects of cognitive and functional decline are about 3-fold larger over 18 months.

Expert clinicians offer their perspectives on developmental milestones for children, the NMSOD patient perspective, effective treatments for insomnia, ALS, diabetic and inflammatory neuropathies, and lecanemab in early Alzheimer disease.

In 2 phase 3 randomized placebo-controlled trials, findings showed that although crenezumab was well tolerated, it did not reduce clinical decline in participants with early Alzheimer disease.

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

With diagnosis rates of Alzheimer disease increasing, Tabby Khan, MD, MPH, spoke to the need to focus on cognitive decline in younger patient populations.

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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 general neurology, related to the recent 4th Annual International Congress on the Future of Neurology®.

Neurology News Network for the week ending October 1, 2022. [WATCH TIME: 4 minutes]

Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending September 23, 2022.

The neurologist and assistant professor at the University of Toronto discussed the real, but tepid significance of amyloid-related imaging abnormalities seen from lecanemab in early-stage Alzheimer disease. [WATCH TIME: 3 minutes]

The neurologist and assistant professor at the University of Toronto provided insight on positive topline findings from the phase 3 Clarity AD study of lecanemab in early Alzheimer disease. [WATCH TIME: 4 minutes]

The investigational treatment from Eisai and Biogen significantly reduced the Clinical Dementia Rating-Sum of Boxes scores among patients with early AD, with safety and ARIA-E and ARIA-H incidence as expected.

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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 the history of the American Association of Neuromuscular & Electrodiagnostic Medicine.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending September 23, 2022.

Mind Moments®, a podcast from NeurologyLive®, brings you an exclusive interview with Ambereen Mehta, MD, MPH. [LISTEN TIME: 40 minutes]

The director of NYU Langone’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and Center for Cognitive Neurology provided perspective on raising awareness for World Alzheimer’s Day and the ongoing challenges patients with the disease face.

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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 stroke and cerebrovascular disease.