Alzheimer’s Disease/Dementia News

For adults in the U.K., preexisting neuropsychiatric conditions and having a prescription for a related treatment carried a significantly increased risk of severe outcomes from COVID-19 and other severe acute respiratory infections.

Cerveau Technologies Inc. has announced a license agreement with Lexeo Therapeutics Inc. that will allow Lexeo to use an investigational imaging agent from Cerveau for the assessment of neurofibrillary tangles in the brain.

CHICAGO — Impairments in decision-making may be among the earliest signs of cognitive decline, according to a presenter at the 2022 American Neurological Association annual meeting.

CHICAGO — Older age at symptom onset and select pathologies were associated with shorter symptom duration in patients with rapidly progressive dementia, according to a poster at ANA 2022.

A faster decline in BMI and a lower BMI as a result may indicate the need for cognitive assessments prior to the possibility of incident dementia, per a study published in JAMA Psychiatry.

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.

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 — Alzheimer’s disease-related dementia among older adults is linked to a combination of neurodegenerative and vascular pathologies, according to a presenter at the 2022 American Neurological Association annual meeting.

MediCane Health Inc. announced recruitment of the first patient for its phase 2a study designed to assess the effects of cannabis oil in adults with probable Alzheimer’s disease who have limited or no response to antipsychotic medication.

In older adults with dementia, Black patients were less likely to receive a diagnosis than white patients, with the difference increasing over 3 years following symptom onset, according to a recent study.