Geriatrics
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Few meet eligibility for newer Alzheimer’s drugs
Fewer than 10% of early Alzheimer’s patients in a real-world cohort would qualify for trials of anti–amyloid-beta monoclonal antibodies, a study...
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‘Emerging’ biomarker may predict mild cognitive impairment years before symptoms
Low NPTX2 levels are predictive of MCI symptom onset more than 7 years in advance.
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Depression at any stage of life tied to increased dementia risk
The double risk persists regardless of when in life depression is diagnosed.
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Medicare to pay for at-home dementia care coordination
The program is voluntary and will be open to Medicare-enrolled clinicians and other providers who can assemble an interdisciplinary care team and...
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No cognitive benefit from meditation, learning a language?
The findings contradict the researchers’ earlier work that found mindfulness meditation boosted cognitive function in older adults with subjective...
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New consensus on biomarkers for diagnosis of neurocognitive disorders
Reducing the options available to clinicians when making a differential diagnosis into the current algorithm is a pragmatic approach.
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SSRI improves cognition, major depression in early dementia
Improvements in depressive symptoms were irrespective of dementia type.
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Altered gut bacteria a biomarker of preclinical Alzheimer’s?
It’s not known whether the gut is influencing the brain, or the brain is influencing the gut, “but this association is valuable to know in either...
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Muscle fat: A new risk factor for cognitive decline?
“Increasing adiposity – or fat deposition – in skeletal muscles predicted faster cognitive decline, irrespective of demographics or other disease...
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Flavanol supplement improves memory in adults with poor diets
The evidence shows that consuming these nutrients might be associated with the hippocampal-dependent memory component of cognitive aging.
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Potential new treatment for REM sleep behavior disorder
The disorder can signal risk for synucleinopathies, a group of neurological conditions such as Parkinson's disease that involve the formation of...