Alzheimer Disease Perspective

• 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
• Will Alzheimer's Research Ever Return to Normal?   Drs Ronald Petersen and John Morris discuss the effects of COVID-19 on Alzheimer's research and drug trials.
  Medscape Neurology, August 04, 2020
• A 53-Year-Old Man With Loss of Balance A 53-year-old man presents due to a loss of balance, confusion, and mood swings. What is the most likely diagnosis?
  Osmosis, July 24, 2020
• AAIC 2020 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from AAIC 2020.
  Medscape Neurology, July 14, 2020
• In Alzheimer's Disease, It's Not Always Memory That Goes Will defining 'dysexecutive' Alzheimer's disease lead to earlier diagnosis and better outcomes in this subtype? Editorial director Bret Stetka talks with Dr David Jones.
  Medscape Neurology, July 10, 2020
• How Alzheimer's Care Has Changed During COVID-19   Drs Ronald Peterson and Richard Isaacson discuss considerations for diagnosing and caring for patients with Alzheimer’s disease during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  Medscape Neurology, June 15, 2020
• How COVID-19 Affects the Brain As of now, there is no convincing evidence that the virus directly affects the central or peripheral nervous system, says Dr Andrew Wilner.
  Medscape Neurology, April 17, 2020
• The Week That Wasn't: Alzheimer's Acid, Mourning & Melanoma, Preterm Epigenetics Three medical stories that we didn't cover, explained.
  Medscape, March 06, 2020
• Deprescribing Alzheimer's Drugs: The Crowdsourced Opinion The family wants to simplify an elderly man's medication regimen, but is it the right time to discontinue his Alzheimer's disease treatments?
  Medscape Family Medicine, February 24, 2020
• Why a Brain Doctor Asks About Hormone Replacement Therapy   Dr Richard Isaacson on the surprising ways his thinking on this topic has changed in just the past 5 years.
  Medscape Neurology, February 19, 2020
• Can AI Help Map Decline in Brain Function?   Can a new machine-learning technique transform cross-sectional data into longitudinal data? Perry Wilson breaks down the study.
  Medscape, January 29, 2020
• Are Dementia Drugs Serving This Patient Well? An elderly man with Alzheimer' disease is taking three drugs. Which of these, if any, are good targets for deprescribing?
  Medscape Family Medicine, January 08, 2020