Dementia and Alzheimer Disease

After pulling the plug on trials in March 2019, Biogen has announced that an expanded analysis revealed significant positive results for aducanumab in patients with early Alzheimer disease.

Partnership between NIH and NINDS hopes to identify disease biomarkers and spur new clinical trials for frontotemporal lobar degeneration.

Sperling sat down with NeurologyLive at AAIC 2019 to discuss her thoughts on efforts to detect and treat Alzheimer early on in the disease.

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The findings have implications for ongoing early intervention research in Alzheimer disease and dementia since significant functional and neurocognitive declines were evident in middle age adults based on gait speed assessments.

The study unearthed a 20% diagnostic error rate with non-sex-specific parameters—10% false negatives in women and 10% false positives in men—which the authors found may be eliminated with gender-specific norms and cut scores.

The centers will make all data freely available to the greater research community, including those in academia and industry.

Bernard Baumel, MD, and colleagues at the University of Miami have recently launched a clinical trial to examine the safety and efficacy of multiple doses of human mesenchymal stem cells in patients with Alzheimer disease.

In recognition of World Alzheimer Day, experts in Alzheimer disease and dementia share insight from the latest Alzheimer Disease International's yearly World Alzheimer Report.

While AAN makes a push for annual cognitive assessments in older adults, the USPSTF found that there is not enough evidence to support routine screening.

The phase 3 clinical trial program included 2 identical, multicenter, double-blind, and placebo-controlled trials of the BACE inhibitor intended for the treatment of early Alzheimer disease.

The 1st Annual Congress on the Future of Neurology will take place September 27-28, 2019 at the InterContinental New York Times Square in New York City.

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The phase 3 clinical trial program included 2 identical, multicenter, double-blind, and placebo-controlled trials of the BACE inhibitor intended for the treatment of early Alzheimer disease.

The drug is currently approved for the treatment of Parkinson disease-related psychosis, and is also being explored in schizophrenia and major depressive disorder.

The confirmatory phase 2 study by Neurotrope sought to assess the safety, efficacy, and tolerability of intravenous Bryostatin-1 20µg in 108 participants with AD who were not taking memantine.

The founder and CEO of NeuroEM Therapeutics discussed the potential of transcranial electromagnetic treatment and shared insight into the advantages it may hold over the traditional treatment route.

The founder and CEO of NeuroEM Therapeutics discussed the potential of transcranial electromagnetic treatment, or TEMT, in treating patients with Alzheimer disease, with the hope of reversing cognitive impairment.

A number of cerebrovascular risk factors found to be associated with a subsequent diagnosis of Alzheimer disease also showed a high association with a diagnosis of Parkinson disease, pressing the impetus for controlling these modifiable factors.

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The professor of age-related diseases and dean of the University of Exeter Medical School discussed the need for improvement in nursing home care for those with dementia.

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"Mind Moments," a podcast from NeurologyLive, brings you an exclusive interview with Reisa Sperling, MD.

The child neurology resident at NYU Langone spoke about ways for residents to identify and address impaired colleagues that suffer from depression and burnout.

New findings have suggested dementia is a result of worsened white matter rarefaction, phosphorylated tau, and arteriolosclerosis due to repeated head trauma in former football players with CTE.

"Mind Moments," a podcast from NeurologyLive, brings you an exclusive interview with Reisa Sperling, MD.