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Since 1972, clinicians have used the Cookie Theft image to assist them diagnose speech and language problems as well as spatial and visual anomalies. However, a position presented in the Journal of the American Medical Association – Neurology suggests that frequent exposure to the Cookie Theft image may reduce patients’ self-confidence and undermine their sense of belonging and trust.

Results of a study published online ahead of print in Science Advances suggest that the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) may hijack tunneling nanotubes to enter the brain and induce neurological symptoms.

As this review discovered, repurposing of established noradrenergic drugs is most likely to offer effective treatment in Alzheimer’s disease for general cognition and apathy. Still, the report offers several factors that should be considered before designing future clinical trials.

The new codes, which became effective in January 2020, replaced existing EEG Monitoring codes used for limited electrode set (95950), daily video-EEG (95951), ambulatory EEG (95953), and daily EEG without video (95956). Have you reviewed the new codes and figured it all out?

A single, unifying etiology for FMD is not yet known, and this article from Practical Neurology characterizes diagnosing the disorder as “a process involving a careful history and examination for positive signs to rule in the diagnosis, while considering the differential diagnoses of functional presentations.”

To date, no Cdk5 inhibitor has been approved to treat any neuropsychiatric or degenerative diseases due to challenges at the blood-brain barrier. James Bibb, Ph.D., and colleagues seek to change that notion with their brain-permeable compound, 25-106.