The link between head injury and dementia risk is not straightforward, but a neurologist and neuropsychologist discuss potential mechanisms and prevention efforts that can help increase awareness and minimize cognitive problems.
A team of researchers assessed COVID-19 outcomes in patients with neurodegenerative diseases compared with patients without such disease.
Hyperuricemia and gout may be associated with a lower risk for Alzheimer disease.
The researchers sought to understand the prognostic value of tau positron emission tomography for predicting cognitive decline across the clinical spectrum of Alzheimer disease.
The researchers’ objective was to assess the neuroimaging features of patients with cerebral amyloid angiopathy, or CAA, with and without objective memory impairment using tau PET imaging.
While sleep dysregulation is a feature of dementia, it remains unclear whether the duration of sleep prior to old age is associated with dementia. The researchers examined the association between sleep duration and incidence of dementia using a 25-year follow-up.
The study researchers used deep whole-genome sequencing (WGS) to search for novel AD variants in 2247 individuals from 605 multiplex AD families from the National Institute on Mental Health and the National Institute on Aging (NIA) Alzheimer’s Disease Sequencing Project `data sets.
In correspondence published in The Lancet Neurology, researchers proposed a new definition of adult brain health.
Findings from a recent study emphasize the importance of neurocognitive assessment in men undergoing ADT, especially in younger patients, according to investigators.
In patients with dementia, pain is a correlate or prodromal symptom rather than a direct cause of dementia.
