Neurology News

An artificial intelligence-enabled smartphone application developed to detect symptoms of stroke accurately evaluated facial asymmetry, arm weakness and speech changes in line with stroke onset, a speaker reported.

Returning to school early may speed children’s recovery from concussion, according to study findings published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

Black women as young as 24 years diagnosed with hypertension may have up to a threefold greater risk for stroke at midlife vs. women without hypertension, researchers reported.

Physical activity was only minimally associated with a reduced risk for cognitive decline or impairment. Even so, the finding was still significant from a population health perspective, according to researchers.

Individuals who suffered acute ischemic stroke in disadvantaged neighborhoods had twice the risk of poor recovery compared with those living in areas with improved conditions, according a speaker at the International Stroke Conference.

Nipocalimab met the primary endpoint in a pivotal phase 3 trial in patients with generalized myasthenia gravis, as well as in a phase 2 study in adults with Sjögren’s disease, according to topline results released by Johnson & Johnson.

Mild traumatic brain injuries may raise the risk for affective and behavioral disorders in children, according to research published in Pediatrics.

Daily multivitamin supplementation was linked to benefits in both memory and cognition, according to a study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

Older adults recently diagnosed with migraine were more than three times likely to be involved in a motor vehicle crash within a year compared with those who never had a migraine diagnosis, according to researchers.

Hearing loss was linked to a higher risk for dementia, and this risk was greater among people who did not use a hearing aid than those who did, a recent study in JAMA Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery found.