Alzheimer's Blood Test Shows High Diagnostic Accuracy Commercial ptau-217 assay reduced confirmatory testing by about 80% Jan 22, 2024
COVID Vax During Pregnancy Safe for Infant Brain Development, Study Suggests Observational data out to 18 months await confirmation in longer-term follow-up Jan 22, 2024
Allogeneic Stem Cell Therapy Falls Short on Stroke Outcomes Hints at improvement for younger patients, those with larger infarct size Jan 17, 2024
Transparent Brain Implant; Neurology Pay Models; What Predicts Cognitive Reversion News and commentary from the world of neurology and neuroscience Jan 16, 2024
Neurologic Risk Slight After COVID Vaccines, Extensive Review Shows Immune-mediated neurologic events may include Guillain-Barre syndrome or Bell's palsy Jan 16, 2024
Face Blindness Is Not Always Permanent Largest study to date looks at inability to recognize familiar faces Jan 12, 2024
Pain, Impairment Linger Months After ECMO for Most Meta-analysis shows long-term functional and cognitive problems, neuropsychiatric symptoms Jan 11, 2024
What Super-Agers Show; Epstein-Barr and Early MS; Five Variants of Alzheimer's News and commentary from the world of neurology and neuroscience Jan 09, 2024
Direct Thrombin Inhibitor Shows Benefit for Progressing Stroke Urgent anticoagulation with argatroban shows no bleeding downside in EASE trial Jan 09, 2024
Open Blood-Brain Barrier for Alzheimer's Treatment?; Managing TMD Also in TTHealthWatch: IV drug for early atrial fibrillation Jan 06, 2024 podcast
Midlife Cognitive Problems Tied to Sleep Disruptions Earlier in Life Quality -- not quantity -- of sleep may matter most, research suggests Jan 05, 2024
Neurologic Disabilities Linked to Long COVID Risks Certain persistent symptoms more likely compared with other COVID patients Jan 04, 2024
Dementia Drugs Seen Lowering Risk for Macular Degeneration But not by very much or very quickly, VA analysis finds Jan 04, 2024
Opening Blood-Brain Barrier to Deliver Alzheimer's Drug Shows Promise Focused ultrasound helped aducanumab reduce amyloid-beta levels Jan 03, 2024
Alzheimer's Paper Retracted; Pets and Human Cognition; Long COVID Internal Tremors News and commentary from the world of neurology and neuroscience Jan 02, 2024
Novel Alzheimer's Trials Evaluate Senolytics, Semaglutide, CRISPR, and More Looking ahead to 2024 and beyond: "There is so much more to be done" Jan 02, 2024
Brain Impairment Persists at Least 18 Months After COVID Hospitalization Cognitive dysfunction similar to that seen in other illnesses of comparable severity Dec 28, 2023
Death by Doctor; Apple Watch Sales Rebooted; Nerve Transplanted to Paralyzed Hand Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by 51˶ staff Dec 28, 2023
Midlife Alzheimer's Biomarker; How Measles Spread in the Brain; MS and HIV News and commentary from the world of neurology and neuroscience Dec 26, 2023
Young-Onset Dementia Tied to New Risk Factors Vitamin D deficiency, high CRP levels linked with dementia in midlife Dec 26, 2023
FDA Approves New Agent for Nerve Pain From Rare Inherited Disease Eplontersen gets a nod for polyneuropathy from hereditary transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis Dec 22, 2023
Therapeutic Hypothermia May Not Benefit Cardiac Arrest Patients Mortality, functional outcomes similar to normothermia in patients with nonshockable rhythm Dec 21, 2023
Can a GLP-1 Agonist Improve Parkinson's Symptoms? A version of exenatide failed a phase II trial, but hinted at benefits in patients under 60 Dec 19, 2023
Dementia and Estrogen; Case Report on Fatality After Lecanemab; MRI-Based Brain Age News and commentary from the world of neurology and neuroscience Dec 19, 2023
Spinal Cord Stimulation Questioned for Chronic Pain Independent studies suggested no benefit, but industry-funded critics cast doubt on the findings Dec 18, 2023
Keto Diet on Par With Further Medication for Infants With Drug-Resistant Epilepsy Diet may be considered a treatment option for some infants who continue to have seizures Dec 14, 2023
Dementia-Sleep Link Has a New Twist Research unravels relationship between irregular sleep and poor brain health Dec 14, 2023
FDA OKs Maintenance Option for High-Risk Neuroblastoma Eflornithine approved to reduce relapse risk in both kids and adults Dec 14, 2023
Twins and Dementia; CRISPR and Alzheimer's; BTK Inhibitor Fails in MS Trials News and commentary from the world of neurology and neuroscience Dec 12, 2023
Prion Disease Rising in the U.S. Incidence of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease increased, especially among women Dec 11, 2023
ChatGPT Takes on the Neuro Boards The AI model used very confident language, even when it was wrong Dec 08, 2023
This Many U.S. Adults Have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome In survey, 1.3% report having an ME/CFS diagnosis Dec 08, 2023
Antisense Drug Trial Provides Key Insights About Huntington's Disease Lessons learned from investigational tominersen Dec 06, 2023
Blood Test May Be Able to Tell Which Organs Have Accelerated Aging This may enable treatment of people before they get sick, researcher says Dec 06, 2023
Alzheimer's Blood Test Predicts Who Might Benefit Most From Anti-Amyloid Drugs Novel two-cutoff approach may reduce need for confirmatory PET scans Dec 05, 2023
Personality Predictors of Dementia; Parkinson's Blood Test; Klotho in Alzheimer's News and commentary from the world of neurology and neuroscience Dec 05, 2023
Deep Brain Stimulation Revives Cognitive Function After Traumatic Brain Injury Pilot study shows promise in people with chronic cognitive deficits Dec 04, 2023
Rare Syndrome After COVID Vaccines Described "Long vax" events often include neurologic symptoms Dec 01, 2023
Progression Independent of Relapse Activity in Pediatric-Onset MS Early treatment with disease-modifying therapy may offer some protection Nov 29, 2023