The new guidelines cover how to choose appropriate patients, safely scale up to a full dose, monitor side effects and assess effectiveness. The authors also address when to stop therapy and what patients should not receive the drug.
The FDA’s new label restricts Aduhelm’s use to Alzheimer’s patients with mild cognitive impairment or mild dementia, drugmaker Biogen announced Thursday.
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Cultural practices and disease processes may explain why Latino adults with dementia experience faster functional decline and higher rates of depression and anxiety, investigators say.
Researchers were able to predict mild cognitive impairment and dementia with 88% accuracy when analyzing results from in-vehicle recording devices in a real-world setting.
Suicide attempts are more likely in newly diagnosed individuals, according to a new study. The authors urge clinicians to connect patients to a variety of supportive services.
People with cognitive impairment who have sleep apnea are more likely to score lower on tests of cognitive function than their peers without sleep apnea. And the more severe the apnea, the greater the degree of cognitive decline, a new study finds.
A study of older Australians has revealed a strong link between self-reported hearing loss and cognition, along with increased risk for mild cognitive impairment or dementia.
The great prevalence of mild disease underscores the need for interventions that may slow decline or prevent progression in dementia, researchers contend.
The likelihood of experiencing cognitive changes, especially in learning and memory, appears to increase through the stages of menopause and beyond, even when age is taken into account, investigators say.
