Alzheimer's Disease/Cognition News

A new clinical decision rule could help physicians determine which older ED patients who experienced a fall will require imaging, according to a study published in CMAJ.

ORLANDO — For a small cohort of individuals with focal epilepsy, “neighborhood disadvantage” was associated with poorer cognition including learning, memory and executive function, according to a poster.

ORLANDO — In cognitively healthy adults, the presence of seizures predicted earlier change from normal cognition to mild cognitive impairment but was not associated with change from MCI to dementia. according to research.

A phase 2 clinical trial has been initiated to evaluate the safety and efficacy of an inverse agonist for hallucinations and delusions associated with Alzheimer’s disease psychosis, according to the manufacturer.

The FDA has cleared the use of a magnetic resonance spectroscopy platform to provide non-invasive measurement of brain chemistry and support diagnostic processes for a range of brain-related illnesses.

Adults with a diagnosis of coronary heart disease before age 45 years are 36% more likely to develop dementia over 13 years of follow-up compared with those without a CHD diagnosis, data from the UK Biobank show.

Food insecurity was linked to an increased risk for dementia and faster memory decline among older adults, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

Having a higher amount of visceral abdominal fat in middle age was associated with an increased risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease, according to research presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America.

The first patient has been enrolled in a European phase 2b clinical trial for AD04, a novel immunotherapy for the treatment of mild Alzheimer’s disease, according to the manufacturer.

A South Korea-based life sciences company has announced expansion into the European Union, United Kingdom, Korea and China of its phase 3 study of an oral, investigational PDE5 inhibitor to treat early Alzheimer’s disease.