Neurology

Alzheimer's, Related Dementias Predicted to Double by 2060 A new study from the CDC is the first to examine expected increases in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias in older Americans by racial and ethnic group.
News, September 2018
Mediterranean Diet Especially Protective Against Stroke in Women? Greater adherence to the Mediterranean diet was associated with lower risk for stroke in a UK population, with a stronger effect in women than in men.
News, September 2018
Sleep Apnea Treatment Tied to Improved Stroke Outcomes Use of continuous positive airway pressure after an acute stroke or transient ischemia attack may improve neurologic functioning in patients with sleep apnea, a new study found.
News, September 2018
Walking Just 4 Hours a Week Linked to Reduced Stroke Severity New registry data suggest even light to moderate physical activity may result in a less severe stroke over time.
News, September 2018
Statin Benefits After 75 Limited to Patients With Diabetes Analysis of NHANES data showed no overall benefit of statins for primary prevention, with the exception of adults with type 2 diabetes, and only for those aged 75 to 84 years.
News, September 2018
Chronic Pain Now Affects 50 Million US Adults A new CDC report notes that about 50 million Americans are experiencing chronic pain and that 20 million have 'high-impact' chronic pain that interferes with life or work activities.
News, September 2018
Seizure Cycles May Follow Circadian Rhythms Epileptic seizures often follow a circadian rhythm, which may eventually help guide therapy, researchers say.
News, September 2018
Mediterranean Diet Linked to Improved Sleep Quality Adding to past research showing beneficial effects from the Mediterranean diet in older adults, a new study suggests that the diet also improves quality of sleep, although not sleep duration.
News, September 2018
Aphasia Treatment Potential High Note of Musician Brain Study What brain imaging differences emerge when professional musicians listen to their own genre of music vs another? How do these changes compare to neuroimaging of nonmusicians?
News, September 2018
PARADIGMS: Fingolimod Effective, Well Tolerated in Children Results show an 82% reduced annualized relapse rate among pediatric patients with multiple sclerosis taking fingolimod compared with those taking interferon-beta1a.
News, September 2018
Cognitive and Behavior Changes Common Early in ALS New evidence shows that unlike previously thought, behavior and cognitive domains are significantly affected early in the course of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
News, September 2018
Smoking Cessation Lowers Dementia Risk Even as a link between smoking and risk for dementia remains controversial, a large population-based study explores benefits associated with smoking cessation.
News, September 2018
New Illinois Law Encourages Marijuana as Opioid Alternative Opponents say the evidence does not support marijuana as a pain reliever.
News, September 2018
Novel Intervention Markedly Slows Cognitive Decline in MCI Goal setting and action plans help prevent memory and functional decline in African American patients with mild cognitive impairment.
News, September 2018
Apomorphine Benefits Finally Confirmed in Parkinson's The benefits of the dopamine agonist apomorphine in Parkinson's disease have finally been confirmed in the randomized TOLEDO trial, although the drug has been used in the condition for many years.
News, September 2018
Cannabis for Chronic Nerve Pain: Mechanism Revealed? New imaging findings show the potential mechanism of medical marijuana in providing effective relief from chronic neuropathic pain.
News, September 2018
Brain Injury an Independent Risk Factor for ADHD in Kids Are children who experience a mild TBI at higher risk for ADHD based on genetic predisposition, their brain injury, or both? New research aims to sort it out.
News, September 2018
Cumulative BP Measures Better for CV Risk Prediction Algorithms used for risk prediction of cardiovascular disease would be more accurate if they included a more sophisticated measure of blood pressure history rather than a single current value as is the case currently, a new study shows.
News, September 2018
Naps May Enhance 'Emotional Memory' in Children Although benefit may not be apparent immediately after napping, 'the nap is setting up a neural process that can then unfold…overnight,' leading to better memory performance in children, new research suggests.
News, September 2018
Updated Diagnostic Criteria for MS an 'Enormous Jump' Forward Researchers followed 229 people with clinically isolated syndrome to compare the 2010 and 2017 McDonald criteria for predicting progression to multiple sclerosis over time.
News, August 2018

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