Neurology News

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 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.

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.

Children who played video games were shown to exhibit better cognitive function compared with those who didn’t, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open.

CHICAGO — Nicole Rosendale, MD, assistant professor of neurology at the University of California, San Francisco, discusses highlights from her talk at ANA 2022 on equity in neurologic care for the LGBTQ+ community.

CHICAGO – Here at ANA 2022, Dina Jacobs, MD, clinical director of the Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders Center at Penn Medicine, discussed family planning and pregnancy-related care for women living with MS.

CHICAGO — For older adults who experience first-time stroke, approaching recovery with optimism improves functional recovery, according to a poster at the American Neurological Association annual meeting.