The results highlight the importance of evaluating and monitoring cognitive function in individuals with recent critical illness or major infections, especially if they are already at risk for dementia.
Study showed an association between early-onset Alzheimer disease and higher levels of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol independent of the effects of APOE, as well as demonstrated enrichment of rare coding variants of APOB.
An entorhinal cortex-based virtual reality navigation task can differentiate patients with mild cognitive impairment at low and high risk for developing dementia.
No significant difference in outcomes was observed in children and adolescents with fragile X syndrome (FXS) receiving adaptive versus nonadaptive in-home cognitive training.
Results indicated a considerably higher prevalence of carriers of intermediate and pathological ranges of polyglutamine disease–associated alleles among the general population than previously estimated.
For people with ALS, African-Americans have longer survival than Caucasians when death is the outcome, but not when the outcome is death or tracheostomy and invasive ventilation.
