Slight Decline Seen in Opioid Prescription Rates
Investigators assessed the impact of physician clinical knowledge on opioid prescribing habits following the shift in guideline recommendations away from opioid prescribing.
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GPS Driving May Act As Digital Biomarker for Early Alzheimer Disease
Investigators installed GPS data loggers with custom software in participants’ vehicles to see if driving performance could predict preclinical Alzheimer disease.
Children Taking ADHD Medication Experience Fewer Suicidal Thoughts
Researchers investigated the associations of ADHD pharmacotherapy with externalizing symptoms and childhood suicidality.
Noninvasive Vagus Nerve Stimulation May Improve Parkinson Disease Symptoms
Researchers examined the efficacy of cervical noninvasive vagus nerve stimulation as an adjunct to standard treatment for patients with Parkinson disease and freezing of gait.
Lower-Dose Schizophrenia Medication Increases Risk of Relapse or Discontinuation
The researchers compared the risks and benefits of reduced vs standard doses of antipsychotics for patients with schizophrenia.
Longer Duration of Menses May Be Associated With Alzheimer Disease Biomarkers
Researchers studied how the length of the female reproductive period, which is an indicator of endogenous estrogen, is related to levels of cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers for Alzheimer disease.
Blood-Based Biomarkers May Predict Alzheimer’s Disease Risk
Determining if a patient with subtle cognitive symptoms suffers from prodromal or preclinical Alzheimer disease (AD) and whether that patient will progress to AD dementia is a challenge. However, this determination is critically important in order to ascertain a correct and early diagnosis of AD. Researchers may have found one method that can help.
Brexpiprazole Provides Short- and Long-Term Benefits in Schizophrenia
The goal of the researchers was to describe the short- and long-term effects of brexpiprazole on Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) “Marder factors.”
Updated DSM-5 PTSD Checklist Yields Similar Results to Those of DSM-4
The researchers’ objective was to examine whether PTSD could be compared and assessed based on DSM-IV and DSM-5 criteria, using PTSD Checklists.
Meningeal Lymphatic Drainage May Help Improve Alzheimer Disease Outcomes
Using transcriptional profiling of mouse meningeal lymphatic endothelial cells, microglia and brain blood endothelial cells, the researchers showed that meningeal lymphatic function is coupled to microglia and brain vascular activation in Alzheimer disease.
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