Neurology News

An OCT study on spaceflight crew members found ocular morphology alterations potentially related to weightlessness and chronic headward fluid shift were not reversed by short-duration lower body negative pressure countermeasures.

In this week’s edition, women are less likely than men to return to work after large vessel occlusion stroke; cognitive impairment, headaches and CVD are more common in former college football players; veterans, providers support the addition of integrative medicine for chronic headaches; and more.

The American Academy of Neurology, along with the American Epilepsy Society and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, has provided a practice guidance update for women with epilepsy of childbearing potential.

While well tolerated, balovaptan did not improve socialization and communication difficulties in young persons with autism spectrum disorder compared with placebo, according to results of a clinical trial published in JAMA Psychiatry.

The American Academy of Neurology has issued a statement in support of protections surrounding the physician-patient relationship, following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Angiotensin receptor blockers may reduce progression from mild cognitive impairment to dementia in patients undergoing antihypertensive treatment, researchers wrote in Hypertension.

Endovascular therapy is now a standard treatment for select patients with severe ischemic stroke to improve the likelihood of functional recovery; yet there remains a paucity of research on outcomes by sex and gender.

Individuals aged 65 years and older with a history of hypothyroidism were associated with an 81% increased risk for dementia, researchers reported in Neurology.

Drugs that target the noradrenergic system may improve cognition and apathy in patients with dementia or mild cognitive impairment caused by Alzheimer’s disease but have little effect on attention or episodic memory, researchers reported.

Analyzing clinical phenotypes of race, ethnicity and sex, as well as history of concussions and depression, were crucial in determining risk for suicide attempts among youth in the United States, a study showed in JAMA Network Open.