Neurology
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Waking up at night could be your brain boosting your memory
“Every time I wake up in the middle of the night now, I think – ah, nice, I probably just had great memory-boosting sleep.”
Conference Coverage
Chronically low wages linked to subsequent memory decline
The findings could have implications for future public policy and research initiatives.
Conference Coverage
More evidence that ultraprocessed foods are detrimental for the brain
Higher intake of ultraprocessed foods was significantly associated with a faster rate of decline in both executive and global cognitive function...
Conference Coverage
Racism tied to cognition in middle-aged, elderly
Health care itself may be partially responsible.
Conference Coverage
COVID smell loss tops disease severity as a predictor of long-term cognitive impairment
Severity of anosmia, but not clinical status, significantly predicted cognitive impairment.
From the Journals
Smell loss may be a biomarker of Alzheimer’s disease risk
Rapidly deteriorating performance on serial smell tests not only predicted Alzheimer’s disease among cognitively normal adults, but corresponded...
Conference Coverage
Novel guidance informs plasma biomarker use for Alzheimer’s disease
The Alzheimer’s Association offers guidance for biomarker use in clinical trials and memory clinics.
Conference Coverage
ICU stays linked to a doubling of dementia risk
“Health care providers caring for older patients who have experienced a hospitalization for critical illness should be prepared to assess and...
Med/Psych Update
Is it psychosis, or an autoimmune encephalitis?
How to differentiate anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis from first-episode psychosis.
Feature
Hospital programs tackle mental health effects of long COVID
Patients never hospitalized for COVID-19 still may have persistent symptoms like fatigue, cognitive problems, and mood disorders.
From the Journals
Metabolic syndrome raises dementia risk in under-60s
A large follow-up study found a link between dementia risk and the number of components of metabolic syndrome a person has a midlife.