Episode 96: Complexities With Cognitive Screening in Primary Care Settings

Episode 96 of the NeurologyLive^® Mind Moments^® podcast is now live! Scroll down to listen or click here to subscribe on your favorite streaming service.

The Mind Moments podcast features exclusive interviews with leaders in the field discussing the latest research and disease management strategies across the breadth of neurology, including epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson disease, dementia, sleep disorders, and more.

Episode 96, "Complexities With Cognitive Screening in Primary Care Settings," Features an interview with Nicole Fowler, PhD, director of research for internal medicine and geriatrics at Indiana University School of Medicine. Fowler discussed the DAVOS Alzheimer's Collaborative DIGITAL Demonstration Project, an initiative to help understand the feasibility, acceptability, and implementation of digital cognitive screening tools in primary care settings. Specifically, she spoke on how these tools will be used as more novel therapeutics for Alzheimer disease emerge, the challenges with screening patients large-scale, and how blood tests and other biomarkers will play a role going forward.

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The stories featured in this week's Neurology News Minute, which will give you quick updates on the following developments in neurology, are further detailed here:

• FDA Approves Expanded Indication of DaxibotulinumtoxinA to Treat Cervical Dystonia
• Exon 44 Skipping Agent AOC 1044 Granted FDA Orphan Drug Designation for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
• CGRP Medication Atogepant Gains European Commission Approval as Migraine Preventive
• FDA Approves Neurocrine Biosciences’ Valbenazine for Huntington Disease Chorea
  

EPISODE BREAKDOWN

• 1:15 – Objectives of DAVOS Project, overview of presentation from AAIC
• 6:55 – Complexities and challenges with screening in primary care settings
• 10:30 – Neurology News Minute
• 13:25 – Incorporating screening procedures with emerging therapies
• 12:30 – Future role of digital technologies and blood tests

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