Category: New research findings

Last week in the New England Journal of Medicine, the results of an interesting proof-of-concept study using focused ultrasound to enhance the ability of the anti-amyloid monoclonal antibody aducanumab to cross the blood blood-brain barrier...

I last posted on my blog three weeks ago.  A few days after that, I came down with what was probably just a bad cold.   It was mainly in my chest with a lot of coughing....

This post originally appeared on my blog in August.  Somehow, I accidently deleted it this week.  Here it is again with my apologies to those who have been unable to find it. If only rebooting my...

My dog Jack and I are diligent about getting our 10,000 steps walking every day.  Many studies have shown that regular exercise reduces the risk of getting dementia including Alzheimer’s, but questions remain: How much...

While doing a genetic genealogical search in 2012, I inadvertently discovered that I have two copies of the APOE-4 allele putting me at very high risk of developing Alzheimer’s dementia. However, as a neurologist,...

Lois, my wife and a retired librarian, got me started keeping track of my book reading using the Goodreads website in 2008. It took me a couple of years to get it right, remembering...

Last February I posted an essay on this blog titled “Hearing loss, aphasia and dementia” about my increasing problem with understanding speech. I suspected that my trouble with speech was due to a combination...

The results of the phase 3 clinical trial of the anti-amyloid monoclonal antibody donanemab were released simultaneously today at the Alzheimer’s Association Clinical Conference (AAIC) in Amsterdam and in a paper published in JAMA....

Two important things happened this week.  On the Fourth of July, my granddaughter Emily got her first ride in a canoe. She was thrilled. The other important thing that happened this week was the FDA...