Alzheimer’s Disease/Dementia News

The future of Alzheimer’s disease detection and treatment may lie in AI-based datasets encompassing an abundance of real-world evidence from a large number of patients, an expert said.

Adults who more frequently consumed several flavonoid-rich foods, like berries and tea, had a significantly lower risk for dementia, according to an analysis published in JAMA Network Open.

LGBTQ+ people may be more likely to experience adverse brain health outcomes, including late-life depression and dementia, compared with cisgender straight people, according to study results published in Neurology.

C2N Diagnostics has been awarded more than $7 million from the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation’s Diagnostics Accelerator initiative to advance a novel platform intended to boost Alzheimer’s disease biomarker detection.

Higher adherence to the Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay, or MIND) diet reduced the risk for cognitive impairment, particularly in women, results from a cohort study published in Neurology showed.

PHILADELPHIA — In this Healio Video Perspective from the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference, Johan Luthman, PhD, discusses new data from post hoc analyses evaluating the efficacy of Rexulti for Alzheimer’s-related agitation.

The use of sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors reduced the risk for multiple neurodegenerative diseases in adults with type 2 diabetes, according to study results published in Neurology.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Among a cohort of patients within the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study, no link was found between late-life depression and global amyloid deposition, according to a poster at the American Neurological Association.

The FDA has granted 510(k) clearance to a Centiloid scaling apparatus software for positron emission tomography-based amyloid imaging to evaluate individuals for Alzheimer’s disease-related pathology.

Increasing depressive symptoms among cognitively unimpaired older adults appeared significantly associated with early amyloid accumulation in brain regions involved in emotional control, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.