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Imaging with PET Scans may reveal low-grade inflammation in MS patients

PET scans (Positron emission Tomography) is an imaging technique often used to detect the spread of cancer or changes in the brain associated with Alzheimer’s Disease. A recent publication reports that PET scans can reveal unsuspected smoldering inflammation in patients treated with disease-modifying treatments (DMT).  The existence of ongoing low-grade inflammation may help explain why […]

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The meds Americans crave for weight loss may benefit patients with early Parkinson’s Disease

A group of French researchers have found that the drug Lixisenatide may benefit Parkinson’s Disease (PD) with early motor symptoms and also have a neuroprotective effect, which would improve the clinical course of PD.  Lixisenatide is a glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist, making it part of a large family of similar compounds used to treat

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Skin Tests can detect some Neurodegenerative Disorders

Certain chronic neurodegenerative disorders, such as Parkinson’s Disease, have been linked to the presence of an abnormal form of a protein called alpha-synuclein. Approximately 2.5 million patients in the US suffer from synucleinopathies. Synucleinopathies are progressive neurodegenerative diseases, each with different prognoses.  Many often take years to diagnose as the initial signs are subtle and

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A Blood test for early detection of Alzheimer’s Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment

An international research team has created a diagnostic blood test that detects Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI). The accuracy rates are exceedingly high, greater than 96% for AD and 87% for MCI.  Unlike previously devised tests which measured a single biomarker, the HKUST test measures 21 different proteins which capture multiple biologic

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MS patients may feel depression as their Monoclonal Antibody Treatment “wears off”

While the “feel good effect” has long been associated with the use of the monoclonal antibody Natalizumab, there is now evidence that the wearing-off of this and other monoclonal antibodies is associated with depression.  In fact, more than half of MS patients treated with the monoclonal antibodies Ocrevus, Rituxan, and Natalizumab who were surveyed reported

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Gold may be Good for More than Jewelry for some Neurologic Patients

Patients with neurodegenerative disorders such as Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and Parkinson’s Disease (PD) may find hope in the most unlikely of resources: GOLD.  Researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center have been testing the treatment of oral intake of gold nanocrystals in MS and PD patients suffering from problems in motor movement. MS

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Can Alzheimer’s be transmissible?

For the first time, there have been reports of medically acquired Alzheimer’s disease (AD).   Five people in the UK have been diagnosed with AD decades after being treated in their childhood with human growth hormone extracted from cadavers (c-hGH). In total 30,000 people have been treated with c-hGH worldwide between 1958 and 1985. Human genetic

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Comparison of Medication vs Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson’s Disease

Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative condition with progressive loss of dopamine-containing cells.  The hallmark is not motor weakness, but rather a loss of control of motor function.  The main symptoms of Parkinson’s are tremor at rest, slowness in movement, decreased arm swing when walking, shortened shuffling steps, a hunched posture, and a mask-like appearance

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