by Ket Patel | May 20, 2012 | All Articles For Neurology, Alzheimer's Disease
Recurrent depression from midlife through late life increases the risk of vascular dementia, suggesting a progressive etiologic association with vascular disease, a large, long-term retrospective cohort study has shown. When depression begins only in late life, it...
by Ket Patel | May 19, 2012 | All Articles For Psychiatry, Depression
Recurrent depression from midlife through late life increases the risk of vascular dementia, suggesting a progressive etiologic association with vascular disease, a large, long-term retrospective cohort study has shown. When depression begins only in late life, it...
by Ket Patel | May 18, 2012 | All Articles For Neurology, Epilepsy
Women with epilepsy appear to have a significantly greater number of unintended pregnancies than does the general population and cite a wide variety of reasons for discontinuing different contraceptive methods, according to preliminary results from the Epilepsy Birth...
by Ket Patel | May 18, 2012 | All Articles For Psychiatry, Sleep Disorders
Excessive daytime sleepiness in patients with obstructive sleep apnea remains a common and often debilitating problem, despite optimal use of continuous positive airway pressure treatment, according to Dr. Janine R.E. Vintch. The two drugs most beneficial as...
by Ket Patel | May 17, 2012 | All Articles For Neurology, Alzheimer's Disease
A new plan marshals the forces of funding, research, and education to fight the battle against Alzheimer’s. The National Plan to Address Alzheimer’s Disease has an ambitious, overarching goal: to prevent and effectively treat Alzheimer’s by 2025. But while focusing on...
