Trial: Drug Induces, Maintains Dementia-Related Psychosis Remission Results pave way for Nuplazid label expansion Sep 14, 2020
Ethics Consult: Keep Patient on Feeding Tube After Dementia Dx? MD/JD Weighs In You voted, now see the results and an expert's response Sep 11, 2020
Dementia Deaths Vastly Undercounted, Study Suggests And as a result, healthcare resources may need realignment Aug 24, 2020
Dementia Patients Often Get Psychotropic Drugs, Opioids Community use of these drugs "has been a real blind spot" Aug 18, 2020
Hearing Loss Tied to Dementia Pathology Tau tangles seen in cognitively normal adults with hearing impairment Aug 07, 2020
ARB Slows Cognitive Decline in Trial... But How? Consequence of lowered blood pressure, or perhaps a direct effect -- or just a fluke Aug 06, 2020
Lifestyle, Policy Changes Could Make Big Dent in Dementia Burden Report identifies 12 modifiable risk factors Jul 30, 2020
Alzheimer's Blood Test Shows Same Accuracy as Imaging Markers p-tau217 may be "a real game changer" Jul 28, 2020
Infections Tied to Increased Mortality in Dementia Patients Death rates higher even 10 years later, Danish study shows Jul 27, 2020
Flu, Pneumonia Vaccines Tied to Lower Alzheimer's Risk Older adults vaccinated against pneumonia have nearly 40% less Alzheimer's risk later in life Jul 27, 2020
Dementia Tied to Olfaction; Preclinical Alzheimer's Trial; Guillain-Barré and COVID-19 News and commentary from the world of neurology and neuroscience Jul 21, 2020
HDL Protein Linked to Lower Dementia Risk Findings extend associations from cardiovascular disease to dementia Jul 14, 2020
Does Delirium Cause Long-Term Cognitive Decline? Analysis has "great implications in the COVID era" Jul 13, 2020
Alzheimer's May Develop Differently in Women Brain changes appear years earlier in women than in men, imaging shows Jun 24, 2020
A Diabetes Drug That Slows Cognitive Decline? Trulicity analysis hints at dementia prevention Jun 22, 2020
Dementia Linked to Previous Migraine History Midlife migraine diagnosis boosted dementia rate by 50%, Danish study shows Jun 18, 2020
Strange Sips, Steps Raise Concerns About Trump's Health CNN's Gupta: "A lot of clues, but no conclusions" Jun 16, 2020
Repetitive Negative Thinking Linked With Alzheimer's Pathology Rumination, worry tied to amyloid, tau, and cognitive decline Jun 08, 2020
Alzheimer’s Tau Tracer Wins Landmark Approval "Major advance" toward diagnosing Alzheimer's with brain imaging May 29, 2020
Silent Infarcts Often Defy Anticoagulation in Seniors With Afib Swiss study found surprising link to cognition from these clinically 'invisible' events May 09, 2020
Adverse Childhood Events Tied to Dementia Physical, psychological abuse emerge as factors in Japanese study Feb 07, 2020
Neurology Patients Have Higher Suicide Rates While suicide is rare, some disorders carry five times more risk Feb 04, 2020
Mandatory Testing Shows Cognitive Deficits in Late-Career Clinicians About 13% show problems likely to impair their ability to practice medicine Jan 14, 2020
Muscle Relaxant Tied to Severe Confusion in CKD Patients Higher dose of baclofen associated with encephalopathy in older patients Nov 10, 2019
Can Walking Identify Alzheimer's Disease? Gait impairment may be unique between different dementia types Sep 20, 2019
Alzheimer’s Disease Linked to Altered Liver Enzymes "We have focused for too long on studying the brain in isolation" Jul 31, 2019
Alzheimer's Insulin Study Puzzles Researchers Open-label extension shows a prolonged positive effect on cognition, but only in a subset Jul 19, 2019
Does Alzheimer's Disease Stem From Infection? Scientists debate, and one company targets gingivitis bacterium to slow Alzheimer's progression Jul 17, 2019
Mentally Stimulating Activities and Cognitive Impairment Can certain late-life activities help the aging brain? Jul 10, 2019
Jellyfish Memory Supplement Prevagen Called 'Clear-Cut Fraud' Stop buying useless brain supplements, the Skeptical Cardiologist says Jun 08, 2019
Baseball Great Dies of Lewy Body Dementia So, what is the disease that took Bill Buckner's life? Jun 06, 2019
Antipsychotic Scores Win as Add-On Depression Therapy Pimavanserin significantly improved HAMD-17 scores starting at 1 week May 22, 2019
Meet the MicroCog. You May Soon, Whether You Like It or Not Docs worry about accuracy of commonly used cognitive screening tool May 07, 2019
'13 Reasons Why' Suicide Spike; Sleeping Pill Warning; Bipolar Genes News and commentary from the psychiatry world May 01, 2019
Alzheimer's Diagnoses Change With Amyloid PET Scans Results lead to new clinical management for nearly two-thirds of patients Apr 02, 2019
Crimes and Dementia: What's the Connection? Frontotemporal dementia patients more prone to criminal behavior, postmortem analysis shows Mar 31, 2019
New Depression, ADHD Drugs OK'd; DMT Microdosing; Bitcoin Addiction? News and commentary from the psychiatry world Mar 06, 2019
Language Issues in Degenerative Aphasia Have a Hearing Component Primary progressive aphasia is not just a neurolinguistic problem, study shows Feb 11, 2019
Study Raises Questions on Nuedexta Prescribing Real-world data show PBA drug given mainly to dementia and Parkinson's disease patients Jan 07, 2019
ADHD Genes; Psychosis and Suicide; Your Brain on Internet Gaming News and commentary from the psychiatry world Nov 28, 2018
