Alzheimer Disease Perspective

• Let's Talk About Race How psychiatrists can improve the understanding of the role race plays in psychiatric disorders.
  Medscape Psychiatry, July 29, 2021
• Do Statins Increase or Decrease the Risk for Dementia? Many people claim that statins cause brain fog and dementia. Proving that with data is harder to do.
  Medscape Blogs, July 28, 2021
• A Neurologist Makes the Case for Integrative Medicine   Dr Indu Subramanian talks with Dr Kathrin LaFaver about her research on loneliness in Parkinson's disease and why there's no such thing as one-size-fits-all wellness.
  Medscape Neurology, July 27, 2021
• AAIC 2021 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from AAIC 2021
  Medscape Psychiatry, July 26, 2021
• Alzheimer's Disease Treatment on the Horizon or False Dawn? Effective clinical treatment of dementia has eluded us thus far. Dr William Hung comments on the potential for two biologic agents and one modifiable risk factor.
  Medscape Family Medicine, July 14, 2021
• Why Primary Care Docs Should Worry About the Aducanumab Approval Kenny Lin has three reasons for caring about an expensive, ineffective drug that he won't be prescribing.
  Georgetown University Family Medicine, July 12, 2021
• Alzheimer's Disease: Hope on the Horizon   Mayo Clinic neurologists explore the devastating effects of Alzheimer's and discuss the scientific advances that led to the approval of the first new therapy for the disease in over 20 years.
  Medscape TV, July 08, 2021
• Dementia Made Simple   From simple subtyping to ground rules for patient visits, The Curbsiders share expert tips from geriatrician Dr Josh Uy.
  The Curbsiders, June 14, 2021
• Integrative Medicine: Why Neurologists Should Care My takeaways as a neurologist attending the Integrative Medicine Summit 2021, held by the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona.
  Medscape Blogs, June 02, 2021
• Right Time to Deprescribe This Frail Patient's Metformin? Check out this case, and see whether you agree with Dr Vega's opinion on deprescribing metformin in an elderly patient.
  Medscape Family Medicine, May 20, 2021
• How Retinal Imaging May Help Identify Alzheimer's Disease An exploratory analysis into combining optical coherence tomography and artificial intelligence shows promising results.
  Medscape Ophthalmology, March 04, 2021
• The Outrageous Costs of Treating Functional Disorders of the Brain A neurologist outlines the pitfalls of managing functional disorders of the brain in the emergency room.
  Medscape Psychiatry, February 18, 2021
• Dr. Sanjay Gupta on Promoting Brain Health in Your Patients   Dr Gupta, in conversation with Dr Richard Isaacson, on the lessons learned while writing his latest book on the many cognitive upsides to brain-building.
  Medscape Neurology, February 02, 2021
• Medscape at 25: Recognizing Medicine's Rising Stars For Medscape's 25th anniversary, we're recognizing 25 young physicians who are rising stars in medicine, poised to become future leaders of their fields.
  Medscape, December 07, 2020
• Famous Patients: From Goethe to Beethoven Did you know about the physical and mental ailments of these famous artists?
  Medscape Features Slideshows, October 16, 2020
• Is Tau Blood Testing a Game Changer for Diagnosing Alzheimer's?   Drs Adam Boxer, Samuel Gandy, and Rudolph Tanzi discuss the potential impact of a breakthrough study of plasma phospho-tau217.
  September 29, 2020
• Omega-3s to Prevent Alzheimer's: Who Benefits?   Drs Richard Isaacson and Hussein Yassine discuss omega-3 fatty acid supplementation for the prevention of Alzheimer’s disease.
  Medscape Neurology, September 14, 2020
• Three Doctors on Benzodiazepines and Dementia Risk   Drs Ghaemi, Larson, and Maust on why key studies to date have had difficulty establishing causation.
  Medscape Neurology, September 08, 2020
• COVID-19 Vaccine: Which Country Should Get It First?   Drs Art Caplan, Helen Rees, Ronald Waldman, and Paul Auwaerter discuss the development and distribution of a COVID-19 vaccine in the US and abroad, and the associated policymaking decisions.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, August 27, 2020
• Can Alzheimer's Prevention Work via Telemedicine?   Dr Richard Isaacson and nurse practitioner Hollie Hristov on how they've adapted formerly in-person prevention efforts during the pandemic.
  Medscape Neurology, August 05, 2020