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Two genetic variants modify risk of Alzheimer’s disease
Common variants in the microglia-specific MS4A gene cluster modify risk for late-onset Alzheimer’s disease and modulate extracellular soluble...
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Midlife hypertension is associated with subsequent risk of dementia
Elevated blood pressure in midlife is associated with risk of subsequent dementia, but whether the risk is treatable is unclear.
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Ketogenic diets are what’s cooking for drug-refractory epilepsy
BANGKOK – New developments in a long-established form of epilepsy therapy.
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Asthma hospitalization in kids linked with doubled migraine incidence
PHILADELPHIA – Data from 11 million U.S. pediatric inpatients showed a doubled rate of migraine diagnoses among kids hospitalized for asthma.
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Treatment of episodic cluster headache deviates from recommendations
PHILADELPHIA – Among patients with episodic cluster headache, use of acute medications is high, but use of...
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ECT breaks super-refractory status epilepticus
BANGKOK – Researcher calls ECT safe and efficacious adjunctive therapy in adults with super-refractory status epilepticus of the NORSE subtype.
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Mortality is high in pediatric superrefractory status epilepticus
BANGKOK – Fulminant cerebral edema was the leading cause of death.
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Neonatal epileptic syndromes are surprisingly common
BANGKOK – Nearly one in six severe epilepsies of infancy identified in a major study involved one of the neonatal or early infantile syndromes.
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Quarterly intravenous eptinezumab prevents migraine
PHILADELPHIA – Results from a pair of dose-ranging, randomized studies showed one IV eptinezumab dose cut migraine recurrences for 3 months.
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Mediterranean diet tied to improved cognition in type 2 diabetes
The association was significant in those with effective glycemic control.