Neurology News

Living a healthier lifestyle can lower the risk for dementia for adults with type 2 diabetes, according to a speaker at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes annual meeting.

Maintaining a balanced energy intake through diet was associated with significantly better cognitive function compared with uneven intake patterns, researchers reported in Life Metabolism.

CHICAGO — When struggling with burnout, many health care providers are expected to simply be more resilient, but this does not address the system creating these problems, according to two speakers.

Alzheon Inc. reported statistically significant and clinically relevant results in patients with Alzheimer’s disease following 12 months of treatment with the oral investigational therapeutic ALZ-801 in its phase 2 trial.

Although ankylosing spondylitis correlates with higher rates of Alzheimer’s disease, patients who receive TNF inhibitors are less likely to develop the neurologic disorder, according to data published in Pharmacological Research.

Six metabolites — four related to sugar — were consistently associated with lower global cognitive function, researchers reported in Alzheimer’s & Dementia.

Preliminary evidence suggests there is an association between monkeypox and neuropsychiatric complications, including encephalitis, confusion and seizures, a study published in EClinicalMedicine found.

CuraSen Therapeutics Inc. announced it has begun dosing patients in a phase 2a clinical trial with CST-2032, an oral therapeutic for treatment of mild cognitive impairment or mild dementia due to either Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s disease.

Cedars-Sinai’s department of computational biomedicine has been awarded an $8 million NIH grant to use artificial intelligence methods to identify genetic predictors of Alzheimer's disease.

The FDA granted accelerated approval to bluebird bio Inc for elivaldogene autotemcel, its gene therapy that aims to slow progression of neurologic dysfunction in boys aged 4 to 17 with early, active cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy, or CALD.