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The Bidirectional Nexus of Sleep and Alzheimer’s Disease: Mechanisms and Translational Opportunities
Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the most prevalent cause of dementia, is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder marked by the abnormal accumulation of amyloid-beta (Aβ) plaques and neurofibrillary tau tangles. It currently affects more than 50 million individuals worldwide, with projections reaching over 210 ...
Between 60% and 80% of cases with dementia worldwide are caused by Alzheimer’s disease (AD), making it the most prevalent type of dementia.1 As of 2025, approximately 60 million people worldwide are affected by dementia, and by 2050, projections suggest a rise to nearly 210 ...
Huntington’s disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disease inherited in an autosomal dominant manner. It is caused by an expansion of cytosine, adenine, guanine (CAG) repeats within the huntingtin (HTT) gene, which is located on chromosome 4. This pathological expansion of ...
Article highlights Multiple screening tests are available to screen patients for cognitive impairment, and the Confusion Assessment Method is a helpful test to screen for delirium in the immediate postoperative period. Medicine reconciliation and identification and removal of potentially inappropriate ...
In this next Q&A we welcome Prof. Dr Murat Emre. Prof. Emre studied medicine in Istanbul University and specialized in neurology in Zurich University Hospital in Zurich, Switzerland. After his training he did fellowships in movement disorders in Queen Square Hospital London and in behavioural neurology in Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School in Boston, he also worked in clinical research to develop new drugs for Parkinson's disease and Azlheimer disease. Upon his return to Turkey he founded the Movement Disorders and behavioural Neurology Unit in the Department of Neurology, İstanbul Faculty of Medicine. His main areas of interest are Parkinson!'s disease, in particular cognitive aspects/dementia and Alzheimer disease.
In this touchNEUROLOGY interview, editorial board member Prof Peter Goadsby (King's college Hospital, London) provides an overview of his top three most important clinical trial data and hot topics presented at the annual European Academy of Neurology (EAN), July 1–4, 2023, in ...
Positive psychiatry encompasses several approaches that focus on promoting well-being and resilience in mental health care. In this touchNEUROLOGY interview, we speak with Dr Erick Messias (Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA) to discuss how positive ...
Dealing with behavioural and psychological symptoms (BPSD) in dementia care The Alzheimer Europe lunch debate of 21 March 2023, focusing on “Dealing with behavioural and psychological symptoms (BPSD) in dementia care”, was a hybrid event attended by MEPs and other representatives of ...
Myasthenia gravis (MG) represents the major and most frequent primary disorder of the neuromuscular junction. Clinical hallmarks are variable and include exercise-induced weakness involving extraocular, bulbar, limb and/or axial muscles.1 Respiratory involvement, characterized by orthopnoea or dyspnoea with exertion, ...
While Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the most common cause of dementia, is perhaps best characterized by cognitive decline, more than 90% of patients with dementia exhibit behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia.1 The Cache County Study on Memory in Aging describes ...
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive, neurodegenerative movement disorder and the second most common neurodegenerative disorder in the United States.1 In 2020, approximately 930,000 people in the United States aged 45 years and older developed the disease, and this number is expected ...
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive, neurodegenerative disorder that causes a range of motor and non-motor symptoms. The pathological hallmark of PD is the loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta of the midbrain and the ...
Parkinson’s disease is a progressive synucleinopathy that causes widespread neurodegeneration.1 It is estimated to affect approximately 6.1 million people globally and 0.7–1.0 million people in the USA.2–4 The incidence of the disease is expected to continue to increase over time, and ...
Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA), also known as congophilic angiopathy, is a recognized cause of lobar intracerebral haemorrhage in patients above the age of 50 years.1 It is known to be due to deposition of a variant of amyloid (beta-amyloid plaque) in ...
Parkinson’s disease is now considered to be a spreading disease caused by the aggregation of abnormal alpha-synuclein.1 According to Braak et al., in stage I of the disease, alpha-synuclein pathology is found in the olfactory bulb and the dorsal ...
Hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis (hATTR) is a progressive life-threatening disease that typically presents as progressive sensorimotor polyneuropathy, restrictive cardiomyopathy, or a combination of both.1 Patients with hATTR-associated polyneuropathy (hATTR-PN) typically require assistance walking after 5–6 years, and die within 7–10 years from the ...
Epilepsy is a very common neurological disease, affecting more than 50 million people worldwide and 3.4 million people in the USA.1–3 Focal seizures, formerly partial-onset seizures, are the most common type, making up ≥60% of cases.4–6 Patients with epilepsy have an increased risk ...
Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders, affecting around 70 million people worldwide.1,2 Its management is mainly symptomatic, and long-term seizure remission is achieved in most cases.3,4 One-third of patients, however, continue to experience seizures despite adequate treatment.5 Remarkably, ...
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