Dementia and Alzheimer Disease

The managing director of the Interdisciplinary Brain Center at Massachusetts General Hospital discussed the process of determining the best situations for use of AMX0035.

Stephen Cunnane, PhD, Research Center on Aging, Universite de Sherbrooke, discussed the ketogenic drink used in his recent study and the action of ketogenic diets.

In non-demented patients with Parkinson disease, hippocampal subfields showed associations with memory, spatial working memory, language and executive functions, and CSF tau levels.

Researchers from USC propose a direct neurotoxic effect of particulate matter smaller than 2.5 μm.

Data from more than 37k patients in the UK Biobank study suggests hypertension in midlife was linked to an increased risk of white matter hyperintensities later in life.

The managing director of the Interdisciplinary Brain Center at Massachusetts General Hospital discussed the potential of AMX0035 for the treatment of Alzheimer disease and other neurological diseases.

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The managing director of the Interdisciplinary Brain Center at Massachusetts General Hospital discussed the trial design and outcomes of the PEGASUS trial of AMX0035.

Stephen Cunnane, PhD, Research Center on Aging, Universite de Sherbrooke, discussed the findings and implications of a recent study of the drink’s effects on patients with mild cognitive impairment.

Ronald Crystal, MD, chairman, Department of Genetic Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, discussed the promise of gene therapy for patients with Alzheimer disease and related disorders.

Mayo Clinic's section edition book helps patients with Alzheimer disease and their caregivers answer questions as a guidance method.

The current study significantly increased the number of participants, allowing researchers to identify several new genetic risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease in African Americans.

The grant will allow for more confidence in risk genes and biological mechanisms that overlap among populations and will also allow for discovery and assessment of additional gene candidates that may be specific to certain populations.

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The professor from the Universite de Sherbrooke discusses the use of ketogenic diets and supplements to increase cognition.

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The professor from the Universite de Sherbrooke discusses the logistical hardships of trying to prescribe a diet as a method of treatment.

Recent studies of the CSF P-tau217 blood biomarker suggest it may help to simplify the diagnosis of Alzheimer disease.

The professor from the Universite de Sherbrooke also discusses other factors that increase cognitive decline in patients with MCI.

Frailty index score can identify patients at risk for cognitive dysfunction and might be an important marker with potential prognostic value.

The director of the Montefiore Einstein Center for the Aging Brain provided insight on how his studies may bring Alzheimer disease 1 step closer to prevention.

Women who did not work for pay post-childbearing represented the greatest later-life cognitive decline population in the first ever study that evaluated influence of work-family profiles.