…the iron content of brain tissue can track dementia progression in patients with Parkinson’s; this finding has now been widely reported by the media. Professor Peter Brown began our session…
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…Pharmacological interventions for psychosis in Parkinson’s disease patients. Expert Opin Pharmacother. 2018;19:499-505. https://doi:10.1080/14656566.2018.1445721 Burn D et al. Effects of rivastigmine in patients with and without visual hallucinations in dementia associated…
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…following trauma. Soyon Hong, group leader at the UK Dementia Research Institute, University College London, detailed her team’s research into the role microglia play in neuroinflammation, with particular consideration of their importance in synapse…
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…from commercial partners in EEG hardware manufacturing, digital EEG analysis, and companion diagnostics or prognostics, and research and clinical partners with interests in epilepsy, traumatic brain injury and dementia. The…
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…2018 and 2065, from approximately 145,000 to over 256,000 cases. Like PD, dementia (including Alzheimer’s disease), Huntington’s disease (HD), multiple sclerosis (MS) and other neurodegenerative disorders continue to challenge researchers…
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…dementia. We are proud to say that Alzheimer’s Society was part of a pivotal genetic discovery for the first Alzheimer’s gene in the 1990s, which paved the way for anti-amyloid…
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…concepts of dementia, seizures and lobar signs suitable for junior trainees until we reach a disappointing Chapter 10, a patient with a sudden severe headache. This provides an unstimulating chapter…
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…literature that suggests that slow-wave sleep in particular is involved in metabolic regulation of the brain. It may be that sleep may be an independent risk factor for dementia. We…
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…that can detect both general neuronal activity and brain changes related to Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative dementias. Such tests include blood tests to measure neurofilament light chain in either…
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