Alzheimer’s Disease/Dementia News

Sodium benzoate was ineffective for the treatment of behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia, according to a 6-week, randomized controlled trial published in Journal of Psychopharmacology.

Galantamine may also someday help treat opioid addiction, according to results published in The American Journal on Addictions.

Study findings indicated that higher levels of cholesterol was associated with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease independently of apolipoprotein E 4 allele, APOE E4.

PHILADELPHIA — For patients with Alzheimer’s disease, adding memantine to cholinesterase inhibitor therapy reduced neuropsychiatric symptoms and improved cognition, according to abstracts presented at the American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting.

Older adults who had a concussion, and also received statins, had a slightly reduced risk for developing dementia later in life, according to findings recently published in JAMA Neurology.

Wellness education appeared to be the most effective intervention for managing patients with mild cognitive impairment, according to findings recently published in JAMA Network Open.

WHO has released its first guidelines on reducing the risk for cognitive decline and dementia for health care providers, governments, policy-makers and other stakeholders, according to a press release.

The majority of cognitively normal individuals with elevated amyloid-beta, an Alzheimer’s disease biomarker, stated that they neither thought about physician-assisted death for themselves nor would they, recent study data showed

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Estrogen therapy in women ages 50 to 63 has been shown to affect the metabolic processes associated with later development of Alzheimer’s disease and may offer an opportunity to prevent or delay the disease, according to a presenter at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Annual Clinical and Scientific Meeting.

Researchers have proposed new terminology for a recently recognized late-onset form of dementia that “mimics” Alzheimer’s type dementia, according to a report published in Brain.