Memory Loss

A new guideline published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association summarizes best practices for specialists and primary care providers on how to evaluate patients with suspected Alzheimer’s disease or related disorders.

Patients with obstructive sleep apnea showed impaired emotional memory after one night of sleep, according to study results published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

SAN DIEGO – Regardless of dementia type, patients with nonamnestic symptoms showed a faster rate of functional decline than those amnestic symptoms, according to a study presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference.

Together Senior Health, a digital therapeutics and cognitive health firm, has announced the launch of its cognitive health platform, which it hopes will reduce the impact of memory loss in those with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia.

Cognitive metrics in older patients with AF or atrial flutter assigned warfarin or dabigatran (Pradaxa, Boehringer Ingelheim).

Rapid intensive care, including endovascular therapy after stroke, proved to be a factor in less memory loss, according to results of a survey published in the American Academy of Neurology.

In the GIRAF trial, older adults with atrial fibrillation or atrial flutter who were treated with dabigatran or warfarin had similar cognitive outcomes at 2 years, researchers reported at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions.