Coffee and the Brain; Detecting Prodromal Parkinson’s; Functional Seizure Clinics

Mechanisms related specifically to coffee — not just caffeine — may be why the beverage helps people stay alert. (Frontiers in Neuroscience)

Adding retinal layer thickness to the 2017 McDonald criteria improved diagnostic accuracy in multiple sclerosis. (Neurology)

Accelerometry data identified Parkinson’s disease up to 7 years before clinical diagnosis. (Nature Medicine)

Minor hallucinations in Parkinson’s may signal a decrease in frontal lobe functions and subsequent cognitive decline. (Nature Mental Health)

Intact odor identification and a global cognitive screen helped identify people who would not transition to dementia. (Neurology)

Physical activity moderated the association between markers of brain pathology and dementia risk in a clinical cohort of people with mild cognitive impairment. (Alzheimer’s & Dementia)

Researchers reported the world’s first diagnosis of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in a professional female athlete, an Australian rules football player who died by suicide in her late 20s. (Acta Neuropathologica)

Depression associated with traumatic brain injury showed a distinctive connectivity pattern on functional MRI. (Science Translational Medicine)

Serum brain-derived tau was linked with clinical outcomes and long-term changes in severe traumatic brain injury. (JAMA Network Open)

Medicare data showed that 40% of people with Parkinson’s disease did not see a neurologist in 2019 and only 9% visited a movement disorder specialist. (npj Parkinson’s Disease)

Vercise Neural Navigator 5 software for deep brain stimulation in Parkinson’s disease or essential tremor received FDA approval, Boston Scientific said.

Lesions-related epilepsy was mapped to a brain network. (JAMA Neurology)

Are functional seizure clinics a viable and effective way to help reduce neurologists’ workload? (Neurology Clinical Practice)