Neurology News
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(MedPage Today) -- Antibiotic use didn't raise the risk of dementia in healthy older adults, a prospective study suggested.
Over about 5 years of follow-up, antibiotic use was not tied to higher dementia incidence (HR 1.03, 95% CI 0.84-1.25) compared...
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(MedPage Today) -- Self-reported physical function was better for long COVID patients after a brief outpatient program based on cognitive and behavioral therapy, a pragmatic trial in Norway showed.
Scores on the Short-Form Health Survey 36 Physical...
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(MedPage Today) -- President-elect Donald Trump may have once scored a perfect 30/30 on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), but artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots didn't perform nearly as well.
On the well-known cognitive screen, most...
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(MedPage Today) -- Moderate wine consumption maintained its association with cardiovascular benefit when self-reports were taken out of the equation, the large PREDIMED trial showed.
Using urinary tartaric acid as an objective biomarker measuring...
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(MedPage Today) -- Quantitative Alzheimer's risk factors, including accelerated brain changes over time, were detectable in healthy individuals over age 50. (Nature Communications)
Traumatic brain injury was a risk factor linked with treatable...
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(MedPage Today) -- Taxi drivers and ambulance drivers -- two groups of people with jobs that require frequent spatial and navigational processing -- had the lowest proportions of deaths attributed to Alzheimer's disease, an analysis of U.S...
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There was a time when Sharelle...
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(MedPage Today) -- President-elect Donald Trump on Monday held a wide-ranging news conference in which he said he would preserve access to the polio vaccine but equivocated on other vaccines, pledged to look at bringing down the costs of pharmaceuticals...
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(MedPage Today) -- Diets higher in inflammatory foods were tied to an increased incidence of dementia in older adults, longitudinal data from the Framingham Heart Study Offspring cohort showed.
Over 13 years of follow-up, higher Dietary Inflammatory...
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(MedPage Today) -- NEW ORLEANS -- Tenecteplase in recent years outpaced alteplase as the stroke thrombolytic of choice at one large hospital system, despite shrinking cost savings, a researcher reported here.
In 2021, clinicians at Cardinal...
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(MedPage Today) -- Actor, comedian, and singer Jamie Foxx revealed that his mystery ailment last year was a brain bleed and stroke.
In his new comedy special "Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was," filmed in the fall in Atlanta and now streaming...
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Jamie Foxx revealed details about his 2023 near-death experience, saying he had a brain bleed and stroke that left him in a coma for 20 days. (CBS News)
The H5N1...
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(MedPage Today) -- For people with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage and anemia, there was no significant neurological benefit from getting red blood cell transfusions more liberally, the SAHARA randomized trial showed.
Between a liberal transfusion...
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(MedPage Today) -- Researchers identified 13 proteins that predicted how quickly or slowly a person's brain aged. (Nature Aging)
Midlife anxiety was common decades before people developed dementia, the Norwegian HUNT study showed. (Alzheimer's...
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(MedPage Today) -- LOS ANGELES -- The FDA's warning about arrhythmia risk with lamotrigine (Lamictal) based on in vitro data wasn't borne out in observational cohorts of people with epilepsy, although the risk did appear significant in people...
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(MedPage Today) -- LOS ANGELES -- An artificial intelligence (AI) model accurately detected and ruled out infantile epileptic spasm syndrome in videos captured by family, a study showed.
The model had an area under the receiver-operating-curve...
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(MedPage Today) -- LOS ANGELES -- The novel agent soticlestat flopped in a pair of phase III trials for rare seizure disorders, researchers reported here.
Among Dravet syndrome patients in the SKYLINE trial, the median change from baseline in...
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(MedPage Today) -- LOS ANGELES -- Low racial diversity has limited genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in epilepsy, researchers found, with implications for prognostication and management decisions.
Across all published GWAS on epilepsy...
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(MedPage Today) -- Significant radiological inflammation emerged in nearly one in five stable multiple sclerosis (MS) patients who stopped using first-line disease-modifying therapy (DMT), the DOT-MS trial showed.
The study was terminated prematurely...
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(MedPage Today) -- LOS ANGELES -- Use of angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) was linked to a lower risk of epilepsy after an acute ischemic stroke, according to an observational study.
Among hypertensive patients, ARB use was the only factor...
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(MedPage Today) -- LOS ANGELES -- Many women of reproductive age who were taking antiseizure medication didn't fully understand its implications for pregnancy or have care that aligned with their reproductive goals, researchers found.
Of 107...
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