Pimavanserin Snag: FDA Rejects Acadia’s Dementia Psychosis Drug
Acadia Pharmaceuticals said today that it has received a Complete Response Letter (CRL) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration regarding its supplemental New…
Acadia Pharmaceuticals said today that it has received a Complete Response Letter (CRL) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration regarding its supplemental New…
A new study indicates that the brain-boosting benefits of psychological resilience — including overcoming conditions like persistent loneliness — might offset harm and ultimately…
Developing a new drug start to finish can take years — even decades — and cost billions. But, there’s a shortcut: repurposing old drugs…
This weekend, Eli Lilly and Company presented detailed results of its phase 2 TRAILBLAZER-ALZ trial, showing that its investigational drug donanemab — monoclonal antibody…
(UPDATED Sat. March 13, 2021) In January, excitement rippled through the Alzheimer’s community with drugmaker Eli Lilly and Company’s announcement that their experimental drug…
Anthony Hopkins plays an 80-year-old man with dementia in Florian Zeller’s new film ‘The Father.” (Image: Sean Gleason / Sony Pictures Classics) In a…
New research shows that people living with anxiety, depression and other neuropsychiatric conditions tend to develop symptomatic Alzheimer’s as much as seven years sooner…
IBM researchers trained artificial intelligence to help predict Alzheimer’s by looking at word usage and subtle language differences in writing tests, predicting who would…
Carolee Lee of WHAM! and Michelle M. Mielke at the Mayo Clinic examine the consequences of ignoring gender and biology in Alzheimer’s research —…
Poor sleep — which often goes hand in hand with dementia — can lead to a number of other cognitive health problems for people…
“Can I look into your future and can I accurately estimate how much beta-amyloid you’re going to accumulate over the next two years, the…
Caregivers: If you’re constantly worrying or feeling anxious, overwhelmed or moody, if you have difficulty concentrating, if you’re depressed or agitated, if your self…
Sharon Elin of Mechanicsville, Virginia had noticed that, as her brother Chad’s memory declined, he was becoming increasingly restless, spending hours fiddling about, carrying…
The first ever commercial Alzheimer’s blood test is on the market. It’s big progress. Some experts have reservations because it hasn’t yet secured FDA…
The idea that anxiety somehow foreshadows Alzheimer’s is not new: We have seen it in, for example, 2018 findings that increased anxiety corresponded with…