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The increasing use of social media and online reviews has made it easier for patients to comment publicly—on Facebook and Google reviews, for instance—on the care they receive. Positive comments are heartening for any healthcare professional to read.
Performing epilepsy surgery in the first few months of life of infants with epilepsy is beneficial, resulting in good seizure control, as shown in a recent study. More importantly, when done by highly experienced teams, the procedure does not pose an increased risk of permanent morbidity.
When it comes to music therapy, choosing Mozart’s over Haydn’s music can reduce epileptic brain activity in patients with epilepsy — thanks to its acoustic characteristics, suggests a study presented at the 2021 European Academy of Neurology (EAN) Meeting.
Golexanolone, a novel, small molecule, GABA-A receptor-modulating steroid antagonist, helps ease cognitive problems in patients with covert hepatic encephalopathy with no alarming safety signals, a recent study has found.
Speech data can help predict the risk of future vehicular accidents in older adults, according to a recent Japan study. The use of voice assistants may help capture subtle cognitive impairments in this population.
Plasma concentrations of the biomarkers amyloid-β (Aβ) 42/40, phospho-tau217 (P-tau217), and neurofilament light (NfL) could help predict deterioration in cognitively unimpaired elderly adults, a recent study has found.
Women with shorter pregnancy duration are likely to develop haemorrhagic or ischaemic stroke in the future, with the risk remaining elevated at least 40 years later, a large study has found.
Individuals with familial dementia (FD), defined as dementia in a first-degree relative, which confers an increased risk of dementia, could reduce their risk by adopting a healthy lifestyle, a study presented at the American Heart Association (AHA) Epidemiology, Prevention, Lifestyle & Cardiometabolic Health Conference 2021 showed.
Left atrial appendage occlusion (LAAO) added to usual care led to a reduction in ischaemic stroke or non-cerebral systemic embolism following cardiac surgery among patients with atrial fibrillation (AF), according to results of the LAAOS* III trial.
Co-existing cognitive impairment affects the way older breast cancer patients are treated, a recent study has found. For those with severe dementia, standard cancer treatment may be too much.
