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Greco-Roman Dementia; Prion Disease Vigilance; ChatGPT and Alzheimer's

— News and commentary from the world of neurology and neuroscience

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Cognitive decline was rarely mentioned by , leading researchers to question whether dementia is a modern disease. (Journal of Alzheimer's Disease)

Immune response may be after acute viral infection, a mouse model of Zika virus infection suggested. (Nature Communication)

Each year, thousands of families consume deer infected with , a rapidly spreading prion disease. Is an outbreak among humans inevitable? (Scientific American)

Football was linked with in the brains of adolescent players. (JAMA Network Open)

Accumulated phosphorylated tau pathology, especially in the frontal cortex, was associated with cognitive, functional, and certain neurobehavioral symptoms in (CTE). (Molecular Neurodegeneration)

The National Football League (NFL) paid nearly $1.2 billion to more than 1,600 former players and families as part of the league's , but denied money or medical care for some players with dementia or CTE, a Washington Post investigation reported.

A method to from distinctive speech characteristics using ChatGPT showed a maximum accuracy of 87%. (ETRI Journal)

Here's why one scientist of NeuroImage journal to help start something new. (STAT)

Psychiatric diagnoses were associated with in U.K. Biobank participants, which may be partly accounted for by shared risk factors. (eBioMedicine)

Investigational nipocalimab met its primary endpoint in the phase III VIVACITY trial of , Johnson & Johnson said.

Should discovered incidentally be ignored? (JAMA Neurology)

  • Judy George covers neurology and neuroscience news for Ƶ, writing about brain aging, Alzheimer’s, dementia, MS, rare diseases, epilepsy, autism, headache, stroke, Parkinson’s, ALS, concussion, CTE, sleep, pain, and more.