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A new program called the Dementia Friendly Hospital Initiative is set to be launched in North Carolina to raise awareness among healthcare providers on how patients with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia experience care interventions and how to meet their needs. Led by the University of North Carolina School of…

An online program that teaches how to focus on positive emotions can help caregivers of family members with dementia to cope better with stress, and reduce their depression and anxiety symptoms, results from a clinical study suggest. The six-week skill-building intervention, called Life Enhancing Activities for…

Tetra Discovery Partners is launching a Phase 2 clinical trial for BPN14770 — found to improve working memory in older patients in earlier trials — as a treatment for people with early stage Alzheimer’s disease. The trial, called PICASSO AD (NCT03817684), is recruiting in about 60 clinical…

Adding memantine to a cholinesterase inhibitor can significantly ease certain neuropsychiatric symptoms, including psychosis and troubling motor or nighttime behavior, in people with moderate-to-severe Alzheimer’s disease, according to pooled data from three Phase 3 clinical trials. But it was not seen to be of any benefit in addressing problems of…

Cumbersome security procedures, rising airfares, and shrinking legroom have made commercial air travel difficult enough these days — even for healthy passengers. Imagine how much harder it is for patients with rare diseases who must get to doctors’ appointments or clinical trials that are hundreds of miles away from home.

Long-term use of thiazide diuretics — a hypertension medication — may lower the risk of bone fractures, particularly hip fractures, in people with Alzheimer’s, a disease with a high risk of fractures due to falls, a Finnish study suggests. The study, “Long-term thiazide use and risk of…

Blood levels of a nerve cell-derived component, known as neurofilament light chain, could be used as a biomarker of disease severity and treatment response in patients with Alzheimer’s disease, a study suggests. The study, ”Association Between Longitudinal Plasma Neurofilament Light and Neurodegeneration in Patients With Alzheimer’s Disease,” was published…

Tau bio-logic and LifeArc researchers have generated a human-like antibody called TBL-100 for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP). An antibody is a large Y-shaped protein that’s naturally produced in response to invading foreign particles (antigens) such as viruses. A humanized…

A cellular model that simulates the blood-brain barrier — a membrane that protects against viruses or other insults entering through the blood stream — may help in understanding how potential treatments for neurological diseases like Alzheimer’s could better cross that barrier to reach the brain and central nervous system, its creators…

Cognitive training alone — without the use of direct brain stimulation — may significantly benefit adults with mild cognitive impairment, a known risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease, a pilot clinical study reports. The study, “Cognitive Training and Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Randomized Pilot Trial,”…