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Sleep and Light Exposure; Patients Protest CMS Plan; Lamotrigine's Cardiac Risks?

— News and commentary from the world of neurology and neuroscience

Last Updated March 16, 2022
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Brain scan images with NeuroBreak in the center.

One night of moderate increased nighttime heart rate, decreased heart rate variability, and raised insulin resistance the next morning, compared with sleep in a dimly lit room. (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

A of rising blood pressure starting in young adulthood was linked with midlife cerebral lesions and brain structure. (JAMA Network Open)

Chronic stress damaged in the brain, a mouse study showed. (Translational Psychiatry)

are funding ads and staging protests to pressure the federal government to loosen proposed Medicare restrictions on anti-amyloid drugs for Alzheimer's disease. (Reuters)

Drug developer Cognito Therapeutics and analytics provider Aetion partnered to develop a to identify people with rapidly progressing mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's.

People with dementia may struggle to adapt to changes in their environment because of damage in , imaging data suggested. (Journal of Neuroscience)

The American Academy of Neurology issued ethical guidance for neurologists providing to people with stroke, Parkinson's, ALS, and other neurologic disorders. (Neurology)

The Cionic won FDA clearance for functional electrical stimulation to help improve gait in people with MS, stroke, cerebral palsy, and other conditions.

The FDA also approved (Adlarity), an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor for Alzheimer's patients, drug developer Corium announced.

Researcher Paul McCrory, MBBS, PhD, who resigned from the Concussion in Sport Group amid plagiarism allegations, has been accused of without proper attribution. (The Guardian)

A rapid found insufficient evidence to support or refute that the anti-seizure drug lamotrigine (Lamictal) was associated with sudden death or electrocardiogram changes, despite an FDA warning about possible arrhythmia risk. (Neurology)

Only 1% of older Tsimane and Moseten adults in the have dementia. (Alzheimer's and Dementia)

  • 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.