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Personality Predictors of Dementia; Parkinson's Blood Test; Klotho in Alzheimer's

— News and commentary from the world of neurology and neuroscience

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Personality traits were strong diagnoses in a meta-analysis, but were not consistently associated with neuropathology at autopsy. (Alzheimer's and Dementia)

Neuronally derived correctly identified 80% of at-risk people who phenoconverted to Parkinson's disease and related dementia. (JAMA Neurology)

High-dose eased Parkinson's motor symptoms in a phase I trial. (Nature Communications)

Injecting allogeneic neural of people with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis was tolerated in a phase I study. (Cell Stem Cell)

Klotho protein levels and were associated with amyloid and tau burden. (JAMA Network Open)

Newborn infants in music. (Cognition)

Short sleep and sleep variability were linked with in older adults. (JAMA Network Open)

Liver fibrosis was associated with disease. (Journal of Clinical Neuroscience)

Blood-based biomarkers of amyloid, tau, and neurodegeneration were tied to in women with and without HIV. (JAMA Network Open)

Microglia with the R47H/+ promoted synapse loss in mice. (GLIA)

Also in mice, salty immune cells that surrounded the brain were linked with . (Nature Neuroscience)

A Norwegian study found a moderate association between objectively measured in people ages 70 to 85. (eClinicalMedicine)

  • Judy George covers neurology and neuroscience news for MedPage Today, writing about brain aging, Alzheimer’s, dementia, MS, rare diseases, epilepsy, autism, headache, stroke, Parkinson’s, ALS, concussion, CTE, sleep, pain, and more.