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Alzheimer’s Hype and Hope; Severe COVID and Brain Aging; Low Use of New Neuro Drugs

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An editorial by The Lancet aimed to balance hype and hope about the investigational Alzheimer’s drug lecanemab.

The NIH Toolbox Cognition Battery was sensitive to cognitive changes in children and young people with intellectual disability. (Neurology)

Severe COVID-19 was linked with brain changes that mirrored those seen in old age. (Nature Aging)

The FDA’s decision to approve aducanumab (Aduhelm) may have negatively influenced some people’s willingness to participate in early Alzheimer’s trials. (Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease)

Older adults with concurrent vision and hearing impairment had a higher risk of memory decline than those with a single sensory impairment. (Alzheimer’s & Dementia)

Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink is under federal investigation for potential animal-welfare violations. (Reuters)

A novel tool mapped seizures in the brain and may help epilepsy treatment. (Brain)

Gut microbiome changes were linked with Parkinson’s disease. (Nature Communications)

Despite the rising number of recently approved drugs in neurology, use among privately insured patients was limited. (Neurology)

Subjective cognitive decline was linked to dementia risk in cognitively unimpaired Black and Latino patients. (Neurology)

Behold the imagined thoughts of a poet’s mother who died from complications of Alzheimer’s disease. (New York Times)

  • Judy George covers neurology and neuroscience news for MedPage Today, writing about brain aging, Alzheimer’s, dementia, MS, rare diseases, epilepsy, autism, headache, stroke, Parkinson’s, ALS, concussion, CTE, sleep, pain, and more. Follow

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