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Benzodiazepines Tied to Worse Outcomes in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy

Drugs are commonly prescribed to treat insomnia, anxiety in PSP

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Unusual Visual Symptoms and Alzheimer's; Infections and Dementia; Head Trauma and MS

News and commentary from the world of neurology and neuroscience

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Gabapentinoid Use Continues to Climb

Gabapentin still commonly prescribed off-label for chronic pain

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Alzheimer's Blood Test Shows High Diagnostic Accuracy

Commercial ptau-217 assay reduced confirmatory testing by about 80%

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COVID Vax During Pregnancy Safe for Infant Brain Development, Study Suggests

Observational data out to 18 months await confirmation in longer-term follow-up

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Allogeneic Stem Cell Therapy Falls Short on Stroke Outcomes

Hints at improvement for younger patients, those with larger infarct size

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Transparent Brain Implant; Neurology Pay Models; What Predicts Cognitive Reversion

News and commentary from the world of neurology and neuroscience

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Neurologic Risk Slight After COVID Vaccines, Extensive Review Shows

Immune-mediated neurologic events may include Guillain-Barre syndrome or Bell's palsy

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Face Blindness Is Not Always Permanent

Largest study to date looks at inability to recognize familiar faces

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Pain, Impairment Linger Months After ECMO for Most

Meta-analysis shows long-term functional and cognitive problems, neuropsychiatric symptoms

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MS Risk Linked to Ancient Migrations

Findings may help demystify multiple sclerosis

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What Super-Agers Show; Epstein-Barr and Early MS; Five Variants of Alzheimer's

News and commentary from the world of neurology and neuroscience

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Direct Thrombin Inhibitor Shows Benefit for Progressing Stroke

Urgent anticoagulation with argatroban shows no bleeding downside in EASE trial

Open Blood-Brain Barrier for Alzheimer's Treatment?; Managing TMD

Also in TTHealthWatch: IV drug for early atrial fibrillation

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Midlife Cognitive Problems Tied to Sleep Disruptions Earlier in Life

Quality -- not quantity -- of sleep may matter most, research suggests

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Neurologic Disabilities Linked to Long COVID Risks

Certain persistent symptoms more likely compared with other COVID patients

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Dementia Drugs Seen Lowering Risk for Macular Degeneration

But not by very much or very quickly, VA analysis finds

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Opening Blood-Brain Barrier to Deliver Alzheimer's Drug Shows Promise

Focused ultrasound helped aducanumab reduce amyloid-beta levels

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Alzheimer's Paper Retracted; Pets and Human Cognition; Long COVID Internal Tremors

News and commentary from the world of neurology and neuroscience

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Novel Alzheimer's Trials Evaluate Senolytics, Semaglutide, CRISPR, and More

Looking ahead to 2024 and beyond: "There is so much more to be done"

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Brain Impairment Persists at Least 18 Months After COVID Hospitalization

Cognitive dysfunction similar to that seen in other illnesses of comparable severity

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Death by Doctor; Apple Watch Sales Rebooted; Nerve Transplanted to Paralyzed Hand

Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by 麻豆传媒 staff

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Midlife Alzheimer's Biomarker; How Measles Spread in the Brain; MS and HIV

News and commentary from the world of neurology and neuroscience

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Young-Onset Dementia Tied to New Risk Factors

Vitamin D deficiency, high CRP levels linked with dementia in midlife

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FDA Approves New Agent for Nerve Pain From Rare Inherited Disease

Eplontersen gets a nod for polyneuropathy from hereditary transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis

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Therapeutic Hypothermia May Not Benefit Cardiac Arrest Patients

Mortality, functional outcomes similar to normothermia in patients with nonshockable rhythm

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Can a GLP-1 Agonist Improve Parkinson's Symptoms?

A version of exenatide failed a phase II trial, but hinted at benefits in patients under 60

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Dementia and Estrogen; Case Report on Fatality After Lecanemab; MRI-Based Brain Age

News and commentary from the world of neurology and neuroscience

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Spinal Cord Stimulation Questioned for Chronic Pain

Independent studies suggested no benefit, but industry-funded critics cast doubt on the findings

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Keto Diet on Par With Further Medication for Infants With Drug-Resistant Epilepsy

Diet may be considered a treatment option for some infants who continue to have seizures

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Dementia-Sleep Link Has a New Twist

Research unravels relationship between irregular sleep and poor brain health

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FDA OKs Maintenance Option for High-Risk Neuroblastoma

Eflornithine approved to reduce relapse risk in both kids and adults

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Twins and Dementia; CRISPR and Alzheimer's; BTK Inhibitor Fails in MS Trials

News and commentary from the world of neurology and neuroscience

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Prion Disease Rising in the U.S.

Incidence of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease increased, especially among women

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ChatGPT Takes on the Neuro Boards

The AI model used very confident language, even when it was wrong

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This Many U.S. Adults Have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

In survey, 1.3% report having an ME/CFS diagnosis

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Antisense Drug Trial Provides Key Insights About Huntington's Disease

Lessons learned from investigational tominersen

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Blood Test May Be Able to Tell Which Organs Have Accelerated Aging

This may enable treatment of people before they get sick, researcher says

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Alzheimer's Blood Test Predicts Who Might Benefit Most From Anti-Amyloid Drugs

Novel two-cutoff approach may reduce need for confirmatory PET scans

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Personality Predictors of Dementia; Parkinson's Blood Test; Klotho in Alzheimer's

News and commentary from the world of neurology and neuroscience

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