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Cross-sectional data revealed that LGBTQ+ individuals were more likely to experience adverse brain health outcomes. MedPage Neurology medpagetoday.com/neurology/gene…

"It is going to open the umbrella up to who can be diagnosed with MS in a very substantial way." -- Daniel Ontaneda, of Cleveland Clinic, discussing revisions to the McDonald diagnostic criteria for multiple sclerosis. ECTRIMS #ECTRIMS2024 MedPage Neurology medpagetoday.com/meetingcoverag…

"The increased odds of dementia among transgender and gender-diverse groups are particularly alarming." -- @JasonDFlatt, of UNLV School of Public Health, discussing adverse brain health outcomes in the LGBTQ+ community. MedPage Neurology medpagetoday.com/neurology/gene…

"It's both the frequency and the intensity of head impacts that are the drivers of the disease." -- Michael Alosco, PhD, of Boston University CTE Center, on the dose-response relationship between #CTE neuropathology & # of years & the level of #football played. MedPage Neurology medpagetoday.com/neurology/head…

What we heard this week at MedPage Today 🧵 "It's a crap shoot every time." -- Lisa Sanders MD, of the Yale New Haven Long COVID Consultation Clinic, on risk of developing #longCOVID and ways to prevent it. MedPage Neurology medpagetoday.com/spotlight/covi…

"You can be lonely, but socially integrated in terms of having interactions with people." -- Elizabeth Necka, PhD, of The National Institute on Aging (NIA), on links between loneliness and #dementia. MedPage Neurology medpagetoday.com/neurology/deme…


"We really should be looking at the non-coding genome, the other 3.6 billion base pairs in the genome." -- Gemma Carvill, PhD, of Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, discussing a pediatric #neurology syndrome not previously identified. MedPage Neurology medpagetoday.com/neurology/gene…

"Midlife is when accumulating damage becomes more easily detectable." -- Nicolas Cherbuin, PhD, of the Australian National University, discussing poor midlife #sleep and #brain aging. MedPage Neurology medpagetoday.com/neurology/slee…


Observational data indicated that semaglutide (#Ozempic) was tied to a reduced risk of Alzheimer's disease diagnoses in individuals with type 2 diabetes. MedPage Neurology medpagetoday.com/neurology/alzh…

"This is absurd, a real misuse of numbers and safety data." -- Lon S. Schneider, MD, of Keck School of Medicine of USC, discussing a preprint that did not give a reliable picture about deaths associated with anti-amyloid #Alzheimers drugs. MedPage Neurology medpagetoday.com/neurology/alzh…

In 2024, researchers advanced brain health, while the Oxford English Dictionary dubbed it the year of "brain rot," highlighting the effects of excessive trivial social media use. MedPage Neurology medpagetoday.com/neurology/gene…

Diets higher in inflammatory foods were tied to an increased incidence of #dementia in older adults, longitudinal data from the Framingham Heart Study Offspring cohort showed. MedPage Neurology medpagetoday.com/neurology/deme…

"Is it safe to hit a kid in the head 200 times?" -- Chris Nowinski, Ph.D., of Concussion Legacy Foundation, discussing head trauma in youth #football. MedPage Neurology medpagetoday.com/special-report…

"The only side effects are good ones." -- Dean Ornish, MD, of UCSF School of Medicine, discussing an intensive lifestyle intervention that may help slow early #AlzheimersDisease. MedPage Neurology medpagetoday.com/neurology/alzh…

Mutation Carrier Escapes Early Alzheimer's; TIA and Cognition; Selma Blair's MS #NeuroBreak from MedPage Neurology medpagetoday.com/neurology/gene…


New research suggests that unmarried people may have a lower risk of dementia than those who are married, according to a study of 24,000 participants from the National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center. MedPage Neurology medpagetoday.com/neurology/deme…

A 7-year study showed that increased sedentary time—such as sitting or lying down—was linked with neurodegeneration and worse cognitive scores in older adults, even among those who exercised regularly. MedPage Neurology medpagetoday.com/neurology/deme…