Neurology News

Telemedicine offers the promise of increased efficiency during patient care, but in-person evaluations and relationships are too valuable to completely disregard, according to a debate session at EULAR 2022 Congress.

Research has shown that questions about physicians’ mental health on state licensing and credentialing applications often discourage them from seeking mental health treatment.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Researchers found that sleep variability, depression and age significantly predicted cognitive impairment at 10 years, according to a study presented here at SLEEP 2022.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Sleep disturbances were found to be highly prevalent and pervasive in patients with post-acute sequelae of COVID-19, Cinthya Pena Orbea, MD, said at the SLEEP meeting.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — More than 50% of patients who came to an academic health care center with cardiac or neurological conditions also were found to have sleep apnea or other sleep disturbances, according to a study presented at SLEEP 2022.

CHICAGO — The addition of veliparib to adjuvant temozolomide did not extend OS or PFS among patients with newly diagnosed MGMT hypermethylated glioblastoma, according to results of a randomized phase 2/phase 3 trial presented at ASCO Annual Meeting.

NEW ORLEANS – Autopsy results in otherwise healthy people who died from COVID-19 suggest that immunoglobulin therapy may be an effective treatment choice, Avindra Nath, MD, said at the American Psychiatric Association annual meeting.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A history of COVID-19 nearly doubled the odds of having very short sleep, according to results from a large U.S. study presented at SLEEP 2022.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Pupillary light reflex testing may hold potential in detecting a hyperarousal subtype of patients with insomnia, William Vaughn McCall, MD, said at the SLEEP 2022 meeting.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The link between sleep apnea and cardiovascular disease involves multiple pathways and outcomes, Susan Redline, MD, MPH, Peter C. Farrell Professor of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School, said at SLEEP 2022.