A 7-year study showed that increased sedentary time—such as sitting or lying down—was linked with neurodegeneration and worse cognitive scores in older adults, even among those who exercised regularly. @MedPageNeuro https://t.co/nH9MKrv6Zq

New research suggests that unmarried people may have a lower risk of dementia than those who are married, according to a study of 24,000 participants from the National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center. @MedPageNeuro https://t.co/NsWHbWdvAb

Longitudinal data from the Whitehall II cohort study in England showed that a healthier diet and lower waist-to-hip ratio in midlife were linked to better brain and cognitive health in older age. @MedpageNeuro https://t.co/Esfctv9cNi

Mutation Carrier Escapes Early Alzheimer's; TIA and Cognition; Selma Blair's MS #NeuroBreak from @MedPageNeuro

Diets higher in inflammatory foods were tied to an increased incidence of #dementia in older adults, longitudinal data from the Framingham Heart Study Offspring cohort showed. @MedPageNeuro https://t.co/aFaYc6DElH

"Is it safe to hit a kid in the head 200 times?" -- @ChrisNowinski1, of @ConcussionLF, discussing head trauma in youth #football. @MedPageNeuro https://t.co/5Nr1aAgrc6

"The only side effects are good ones." -- @DeanOrnishMD, of @UCSFMedicine, discussing an intensive lifestyle intervention that may help slow early #AlzheimersDisease. @MedPageNeuro https://t.co/dYEHQYLRV6

In 2024, researchers advanced brain health, while the Oxford English Dictionary dubbed it the year of "brain rot," highlighting the effects of excessive trivial social media use. @MedPageNeuro https://t.co/DsUeYNI77V

"This is absurd, a real misuse of numbers and safety data." -- @LonSchneiderMD, of @KECKSchool_USC, discussing a preprint that did not give a reliable picture about deaths associated with anti-amyloid #Alzheimers drugs. @MedPageNeuro https://t.co/6Op4m10YuU

Observational data indicated that semaglutide (#Ozempic) was tied to a reduced risk of Alzheimer's disease diagnoses in individuals with type 2 diabetes. @MedPageNeuro https://t.co/tUgfCrNZFU

"We really should be looking at the non-coding genome, the other 3.6 billion base pairs in the genome." -- @CarvillLab, of @NUFeinbergMed, discussing a pediatric #neurology syndrome not previously identified. @MedPageNeuro https://t.co/f3Cngbjx2u

"Midlife is when accumulating damage becomes more easily detectable." -- Nicolas Cherbuin, PhD, of the Australian National University, discussing poor midlife #sleep and #brain aging. @MedPageNeuro https://t.co/qiuwV1Jfd8

"Unlike anosmia, hearing loss can be ameliorated." -- Lee Neilson, MD, of @OHSUNews, discussing links between #hearingloss and incident #ParkinsonsDisease. @MedPageNeuro https://t.co/oY3DjjjyYY

The FDA has approved a 24-hour continuous subcutaneous infusion of foscarbidopa and foslevodopa (#Vyalev) for advanced Parkinson's disease, @AbbVie announced on Thursday. https://t.co/1fRgawHoq1

What we heard this week at @medpagetoday 🧵 "It's a crap shoot every time." -- @LisaSandersmd, of the Yale New Haven Long COVID Consultation Clinic, on risk of developing #longCOVID and ways to prevent it. @MedPageNeuro https://t.co/uurwFlZ3UH

"You can be lonely, but socially integrated in terms of having interactions with people." -- Elizabeth Necka, PhD, of @NIHAging, on links between loneliness and #dementia. @MedPageNeuro https://t.co/Xq8EbGgbcZ

"It's both the frequency and the intensity of head impacts that are the drivers of the disease." -- Michael Alosco, PhD, of @bu_cte, on the dose-response relationship between #CTE neuropathology & # of years & the level of #football played. @MedPageNeuro https://t.co/tdgCsOFWgR

"It is going to open the umbrella up to who can be diagnosed with MS in a very substantial way." -- @DanOntaneda, of @ClevelandClinic, discussing revisions to the McDonald diagnostic criteria for multiple sclerosis. @ECTRIMS #ECTRIMS2024 @MedPageNeuro https://t.co/ptGV6sVYMc

"The increased odds of dementia among transgender and gender-diverse groups are particularly alarming." -- @JasonDFlatt, of @UNLVpubhealth, discussing adverse brain health outcomes in the LGBTQ+ community. @MedPageNeuro https://t.co/amQYVu5N7p

Cross-sectional data revealed that LGBTQ+ individuals were more likely to experience adverse brain health outcomes. @MedPageNeuro https://t.co/amQYVu5N7p