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Long COVID and the Clinical Reality of Chronic Infections
Long COVID is the latest entry into a long list of potentially chronic, pandemic-associated infections. For many long COVID patients, some symptoms may be the result of a reactivation of an Epstein-Barr infection. -
The Passing of M. Flint Beal, MD
A tribute to the late M. Flint Beal, MD. -
Localized Slow Wave Sleep in the Awake but Inattentive Brain
Electroencephalogram studies of humans during periods of “mind wandering” and “mind blanking” have shown regional changes that suggest parts of the brain may be asleep while other areas are activated.
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Is it Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy or Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease?
Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease may be confused with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, resulting in inappropriate and hazardous treatments. Age at onset < 40 years, a family history of neuropathy, absence of nerve hypertrophy on magnetic resonance imaging, and poor response to intravenous immune globulin treatment should prompt a genetic evaluation.
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Functional Cognitive Disorder: An Important Condition for Neurologists to Recognize
Functional cognitive disorder (FCD) is a term that can be used to describe cognitive difficulties that are present where there is no biologic cause, but a lack of consensus in diagnostic criteria limits its use in clinical practice and research. Ball and colleagues proposed an operational definition for FCD as the cognitive phenotype of functional neurological disorder.
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Mortality and Costs of Status Epilepticus
In an analysis of a large group of patients hospitalized with status epilepticus, based on an administrative database, patients who required a third line of intravenous anesthetic agents had the highest mortality and highest hospital costs.
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Occipital Nerve Stimulation in Medically Intractable Chronic Cluster Headache
Occipital nerve stimulation is an effective and safe treatment that can help reduce attack frequency and intensity in patients with medically intractable chronic cluster headache.
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Underrepresented Groups in Alzheimer’s Trials Remain Persistent Ethical Concern
Despite ongoing efforts to address disparities in Alzheimer’s disease and dementia care, much work remains. The authors of a recent report identified some of the barriers diverse populations are facing in accessing and receiving dementia care. -
Ethical Controversy Erupts Over Alzheimer’s Drug Approval
The first new Alzheimer’s drug to be approved in almost 20 years has sparked a major ethical controversy, leading to protest resignations, criticism, qualifying statements, and even calls for investigations. -
Statins, Cognitive Decline, and Dementia
An analysis of the ASPREE database showed that with almost five years of follow-up, statins are not associated with cognitive decline or dementia in a large group of elderly subjects in whom multiple tests of cognition were performed serially.