Dementia and Alzheimer Disease

Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending May 20, 2022.

The founder and chief medical officer of Omniscient Neurotechnology discussed the idea behind connectomics and how AI revolutionizes large-scale brain data. [WATCH TIME: 4 minutes]

The chief medical partner of neurology, ophthalmology, and internal medicine at Genentech shared his perspective on the steps the field has taken to improve clinical trials and therapies for neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer disease. [WATCH TIME: 3 minutes]

The blood test from Diadem SpA, which quantifies the AZ 284 peptide as readout of U-p53AZ, showed a significantly higher AUC in both time-independent and time-dependent prognostic analyses than gold standard testing.

The importance of addressing disorders of the brain cannot be overstated, and doing so will be essential to our generation and generations to come.

Here's what is coming soon to NeurologyLive®.

Test your neurology knowledge with NeurologyLive®'s weekly quiz series, featuring questions on a variety of clinical and historical neurology topics. This week's topic is sleep disorders.

Neurology News Network for the week ending May 14, 2022. [WATCH TIME: 4 minutes]

Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending May 13, 2022.

A Harris Poll conducted by Quest Diagnostics suggests that more than 65% of US physicians believe the Alzheimer disease field is on the cusp of a breakthrough, with more than 80% noting that earlier evaluation with blood testing may help improve therapeutic approaches.

The biologics license application includes data from the pivotal phase 2b proof-of-concept trial, its open-label extension, and the ongoing phase 3 Clarity AD study, which includes almost 1800 participants.

Baseline cognition and function were highly correlated in those with mixed Alzheimer and Lewy body dementia pathologies, but not in pure Alzheimer disease nor pure dementia with Lewy bodies.

Here's what is coming soon to NeurologyLive®.

Test your neurology knowledge with NeurologyLive®'s weekly quiz series, featuring questions on a variety of clinical and historical neurology topics. This week's topic is neuromuscular disorders.

The combination of APOE ε4 carrier status with elevated blood pressure variability represented the fastest increase in phosphorylated tau levels over time.

In a prior phase 1b/2 study, BXCL501 demonstrated statistically significant reductions in agitation measures with both the 30- and 60-mcg doses as measured by multiple scales with no severe or serious adverse events.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending May 6, 2022.

The findings in Alzheimer disease further elucidated the safety profile of AMX0035, as treatment emergent adverse events in the PEGASUS trial appeared to be largely disease driven.

Cerebrospinal fluid samples tested in a large cohort of patients at least 50 years of age with either mild cognitive impairment or Alzheimer disease showed high correlations between the Lumipulse G ß-Amyloid Ratio and PET status.

Catch up on any of the neurology news headlines you may have missed over the course of the last month, compiled all into one place by the NeurologyLive® team.

The effects of amyloid-ß and white matter hyperintensity volume on rates of neurodegeneration remained similar in cognitively normal individuals when they were assessed together as predictors in the same model.

A greater number of hypothalamic wake-promoting neurons were associated with a lower percentage of time in stage 2 of non-REM sleep and REM stages.

Here's what is coming soon to NeurologyLive®.

Test your neurology knowledge with NeurologyLive®'s weekly quiz series, featuring questions on a variety of clinical and historical neurology topics. This week's topic is stroke.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending April 29, 2022.

A best-case analysis indicated that, for amyloid-positive patients diagnosed with MCI due to AD or mild AD dementia, lecanemab plus standard of care provided an additional gain of 0.75 in quality-adjusted life years.

Expert clinicians offer their insight on the associations between stroke and COVID-19, treatment for traumatic brain injury, the latest on aducanumab, priorities for research in migraine, and more, from the 2022 American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting.

Following an NCD that will allow for Medicare coverage of the therapy only in NIH- and FDA-approved studies and trials, Biogen has pulled its application to the European Medicines Agency for aducanumab treatment in Alzheimer disease.

The neurologist and assistant professor at the University of Toronto discussed why elevating the voices of patients and caregivers is important to understanding and treating an individual with Alzheimer disease. [WATCH TIME: 3 minutes]

Here's what is coming soon to NeurologyLive®.