CPAP replacement works well for the overweight, not obese, study finds (Links to an external site)
An implant for obstructive sleep apnea — a serious sleep malady in which breathing stops for 10 seconds to two minutes many times an hour each night — works best in people who are overweight but not severely obese, a new study found. To qualify for the device, called a hypoglossal nerve stimulator, a person over 18 diagnosed with […]
Nerve stimulation for sleep apnea is less effective for people with higher BMIs (Links to an external site)
A nerve-stimulation treatment for obstructive sleep apnea that originally was approved only for people with body mass indexes (BMIs) in the healthy range recently was extended to patients with BMIs up to 40, a weight range generally described as severely obese. A healthy BMI ranges from 18.5 to 24.9.
Immunotherapy for Alzheimer’s disease shows promise in mouse study (Links to an external site)
Alzheimer’s disease starts with a sticky protein called amyloid beta that builds up into plaques in the brain, setting off a chain of events that results in brain atrophy and cognitive decline. The new generation of Alzheimer’s drugs — the first proven to change the course of the disease — work by tagging amyloid for […]
Two Studies, Two Different Conclusions on Biomarkers for Lewy Body Dementia (Links to an external site)
Two studies of commercially available biomarkers of synucleinopathies have reached sharply different conclusions on their reliability, according to the findings from two abstracts presented at the AAN Annual Meeting, held in Denver in April.
Musiek installed as Charlotte and Paul Hagemann Professor of Neurology
Erik S. Musiek, MD, PhD, a professor of Neurology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, was installed as the Charlotte and Paul Hagemann Professor of Neurology at a ceremony on Thursday, March 28, 2024 at the Eric P. Newman Education Center. At the ceremony, Musiek presented the talk titled, “Circadian clocks and […]