Neurology News

CHICAGO — With more than 1.5 million veterans diagnosed with headache over the past two decades, the Veterans Health Administration must improve outreach and care to address disparities, an expert said at ANA 2022.

A team of Penn State University researchers has been awarded a $1.2 million grant from the NIH to develop a machine learning system for the early detection of Alzheimer’s disease.

CHICAGO — Stephen J. Crocker, PhD, associate professor of neuroscience at University of Connecticut School of Medicine, discusses the influence of aging on MS and remyelination, as well as the process of cellular senescence, at ANA 2022.

In patients who had endovascular thrombectomy for acute ischemic stroke with large-vessel occlusion, intensive systolic BP control to less than 120 mm Hg was linked with poor outcomes after the procedure, researchers reported.

Healio has launched a new point-of-care tool with modules on medical conditions to help clinicians treat patients using reliable information.

In this edition, COVID-19 patients at risk for post-infection complications; VR for patients with back pain; FDA requests further analysis of Supernus Parkinson’s treatment and more.

CHICAGO — Stephen Reich, MD, professor of neurology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, spoke at ANA 2022 about clinical features of functional movement disorders and how to best identify them.

CHICAGO — Pain, sleep and mood disorders were the most commonly found comorbidities among those with narcolepsy, with chronic pain being more than twice as likely to occur compared with matched controls, a poster showed at ANA 2022.

The odds of 3-month symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage following IV thrombolysis for ischemic stroke among patients aged 90 years or older were not greater compared with younger patients, researchers reported.

CHICAGO — Persistent neurocognitive impairment, depression and anxiety were frequently reported in individuals with mild COVID-19 infection in Lima, Peru, according to a poster at ANA 2022.