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Cognitive testing for older drivers: Is there a benefit?

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Jennie Smith

A policy designed to weed out cognitively impaired drivers over age 75 had the unforeseen effect of exposing them to injuries incurred while...

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Dietary zinc seen reducing migraine risk

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Jennie Smith

New evidence adds the mineral to a growing list of nutritional factors that can influence migraine.

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The paradox of Pompe disease

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Jennie Smith
Publish date: October 15, 2022

For nearly 2 decades, patients with even the most severe genetic mutations have been surviving on therapy. But clinicians must now contend with...

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NORD Rare Disease Centers of Excellence: A new network seeks to break down barriers in rare disease care

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Jennie Smith
Publish date: October 15, 2022

“The goal was to find places that could help with unanswered questions, whether diagnostic questions or treatment questions.”

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Smell loss may be a biomarker of Alzheimer’s disease risk

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Jennie Smith
Publish date: August 3, 2022

Rapidly deteriorating performance on serial smell tests not only predicted Alzheimer’s disease among cognitively normal adults, but corresponded...

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Will the headache field embrace rofecoxib?

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Jennie Smith

The drug formerly known as Vioxx, withdrawn in 2004 over cardiovascular safety concerns, may be given new life as an acute treatment for migraine...

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Microbleeds, age contribute to ARIA risk with aducanumab

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Jennie Smith
Publish date: November 30, 2021

New safety results show that brain bleeds at baseline increase risk of brain edema, and that age contributes to risk of bleeds during treatment....

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Headache seen affecting some pregnancy outcomes

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Jennie Smith

A new study links migraine – and also tension-type headache – to small-for-gestational-age babies.

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Novel gene therapy ‘reprograms’ cells to reverse neurologic deficits in children with rare disease

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Jennie Smith
Publish date: July 22, 2021

Months after surgery to deliver a gene therapy, children saw complete resolution of oculogyric crises, a hallmark of their disease, and were able...

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Two case reports identify Guillain-Barré variants after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination

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Jennie Smith

Investigators in India and the United Kingdom describe rare presentations of Guillain-Barré syndrome marked by facial paralysis, but evidence of...

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The aducanumab revolution

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Jennie Smith

As the controversial new Alzheimer’s drug makes its way from research settings to the clinic, practitioners brace for a potential sea change in...

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Basal ganglia microcircuits offer clues to Parkinson’s symptoms

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Jennie Smith

In a mouse model of Parkinson’s disease, specific neuronal subpopulations, or microcircuits, in the basal ganglia could be manipulated to...

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Palliative care for patients with dementia: When to refer?

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Jennie Smith

A systematic literature review finds few consistent criteria for referrals save for disease stage. Researchers argue that patients’ needs may be...

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Neurologic disorders ubiquitous and rising in the U.S.

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Jennie Smith

Most of the rise in disease burden could be attributed to population aging, while age-standardized figures showed stroke and dementias to be level...

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Cognitive effects seen as transient for Alzheimer’s drug atabecestat

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Jennie Smith

Follow-up data from a canceled trial showed that cognitive worsening from the BACE inhibitor was reversed within 6 months of stopping treatment....

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