High Prevalence of Early-Onset Dementia in Schizophrenia Patients More than a quarter had a dementia diagnosis by age 66 Mar 10, 2021
Ethics Consult: Does Dementia Preclude 'Consent' to Sex? MD/JD Weighs In You voted, now see the results and an expert's discussion Feb 26, 2021
Alzheimer's May Start Sooner for People With Anxiety, Depression History Psychiatric disorders could have additive effects on AD pathophysiology, study suggests Feb 24, 2021
Sleep-Dementia Link; Neanderthal Mini-Brains; MS Tx and COVID Vax News and commentary from the world of neurology and neuroscience Feb 16, 2021
High Cognitive Performance at Age 100 Some centenarians show resilience to cognitive decline, despite brain pathology Jan 15, 2021
Primary Progressive Aphasia in Alzheimer's Doesn't Foretell Memory Loss No memory decline over more than 2 years in small study, though speech deficits grew Jan 13, 2021
Alzheimer's Blood Tests: Big Breakthroughs in 2020 Game-changing strides in tau assays, and an amyloid test enters the market Jan 06, 2021
Trazodone-Sildenafil Mix-Up; Ibogaine Minus Hallucinations; Facebook Flags Distress News and commentary from the psychiatry world Dec 16, 2020
Language Predicts Alzheimer's Onset AI model uses linguistic dysfunction to spot future dementia Oct 26, 2020
More Evidence for Cognitive Benefits With Metformin in T2D Prospective study followed more than 1,000 older patients for 6 years Sep 23, 2020
Trial: Drug Induces, Maintains Dementia-Related Psychosis Remission Results pave way for Nuplazid label expansion Sep 14, 2020
Long, Frequent Naps Predict Alzheimer's Dementia Study uses actigraphy to assess snoozing, drowsiness in elderly adults Aug 29, 2020
Dementia Deaths Vastly Undercounted, Study Suggests And as a result, healthcare resources may need realignment Aug 24, 2020
ARB Slows Cognitive Decline in Trial... But How? Consequence of lowered blood pressure, or perhaps a direct effect -- or just a fluke Aug 06, 2020
Lifestyle, Policy Changes Could Make Big Dent in Dementia Burden Report identifies 12 modifiable risk factors Jul 30, 2020
Alzheimer's Blood Test Shows Same Accuracy as Imaging Markers p-tau217 may be "a real game changer" Jul 28, 2020
Flu, Pneumonia Vaccines Tied to Lower Alzheimer's Risk Older adults vaccinated against pneumonia have nearly 40% less Alzheimer's risk later in life Jul 27, 2020
Dementia Tied to Olfaction; Preclinical Alzheimer's Trial; Guillain-Barré and COVID-19 News and commentary from the world of neurology and neuroscience Jul 21, 2020
HDL Protein Linked to Lower Dementia Risk Findings extend associations from cardiovascular disease to dementia Jul 14, 2020
Alzheimer's May Develop Differently in Women Brain changes appear years earlier in women than in men, imaging shows Jun 24, 2020
Dementia Linked to Previous Migraine History Midlife migraine diagnosis boosted dementia rate by 50%, Danish study shows Jun 18, 2020
Repetitive Negative Thinking Linked With Alzheimer's Pathology Rumination, worry tied to amyloid, tau, and cognitive decline Jun 08, 2020
Alzheimer’s Tau Tracer Wins Landmark Approval "Major advance" toward diagnosing Alzheimer's with brain imaging May 29, 2020
Neurology Patients Have Higher Suicide Rates While suicide is rare, some disorders carry five times more risk Feb 04, 2020
Your Brain on Psilocybin; Probiotics and Parkinson's; Alzheimer's Signaling News and commentary from the world of neurology and neuroscience Jan 21, 2020
Can Anti-TNF Drugs Reduce Alzheimer's Risk? Analysis of 56 million patients hints at possible connections Oct 04, 2019
Can Walking Identify Alzheimer's Disease? Gait impairment may be unique between different dementia types Sep 20, 2019
Sarcosine for Schizophrenia; Abilify Lawsuit; Rural America Suffering News and commentary from the psychiatry world Sep 11, 2019
Alzheimer’s Disease Linked to Altered Liver Enzymes "We have focused for too long on studying the brain in isolation" Jul 31, 2019
Alzheimer's Insulin Study Puzzles Researchers Open-label extension shows a prolonged positive effect on cognition, but only in a subset Jul 19, 2019
Does Alzheimer's Disease Stem From Infection? Scientists debate, and one company targets gingivitis bacterium to slow Alzheimer's progression Jul 17, 2019
The Alzheimer's-Cholesterol Connection Parallel lines of evidence link the two in early-onset Alzheimer's disease May 28, 2019
'13 Reasons Why' Suicide Spike; Sleeping Pill Warning; Bipolar Genes News and commentary from the psychiatry world May 01, 2019
Alzheimer's Diagnoses Change With Amyloid PET Scans Results lead to new clinical management for nearly two-thirds of patients Apr 02, 2019
Crimes and Dementia: What's the Connection? Frontotemporal dementia patients more prone to criminal behavior, postmortem analysis shows Mar 31, 2019
New Depression, ADHD Drugs OK'd; DMT Microdosing; Bitcoin Addiction? News and commentary from the psychiatry world Mar 06, 2019
Alzheimer's Biomarker Tied to Sleep Apnea Apnea linked to higher entorhinal cortex tau PET signal Mar 03, 2019
Language Issues in Degenerative Aphasia Have a Hearing Component Primary progressive aphasia is not just a neurolinguistic problem, study shows Feb 11, 2019
Study Raises Questions on Nuedexta Prescribing Real-world data show PBA drug given mainly to dementia and Parkinson's disease patients Jan 07, 2019
Eye Imaging May Give Early Clues to Alzheimer's Abnormal retinal vasculature in two separate studies Oct 31, 2018
