On August 27, 2009, at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY, the Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds featured a debate titled “Resolved: Psychiatry and Neurology Should Merge as a Single Discipline.” Professor Chaitanya Haldipur, MD, organized the conference. The principal presentations were by Ronald Pies, MD, for the affirmative, and Robert Daly, MD, for the negative. Also participating were Jeremy Shefner, MD, PhD (chairman, department of neurology) for the affirmative, and... More »

Mr A is a 73-year-old resident of a nursing home, where the irate aides describe him as “a liar and a troublemaker.” Mr A had been a successful and well-liked businessman until 2 years ago, when he sustained a stroke secondary to a ruptured aneurysm of the anterior communicating artery. Prominent memory deficits ensued. Mr A also became irritable, verbally abusive, and “hard to manage.” Staff also complained that Mr A “made up stories about the staff, just to get us in trouble . . . like, that... More »

AC-1202 Improves Cognition in APOE*E4-Negative Patients with AD. A medium chain triglyceride that converts to ketone bodies and counteracts reduced glucose metabolism improves cognitive scores in patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer disease (AD) who do not have the e4 allele of the apolipoprotein E (APOE*E4) gene. More »

Personality Traits Early Clue to Distinguishing LBD From AD. Lewy body dementia (LBD) is often difficult to distinguish from Alzheimer disease (AD) but subtleties in symptoms provide clues to the differential diagnosis. More »

BOSTON -- Clinical and research developments in neurology in 2006 seemed to be as much about prevention as treatment. More »

Two new recommendation papers--one on the use of serum prolactin (PRL) in the differential diagnosis of epileptiform seizures and the other on use of carotid endarterectomy (CE) in stroke prevention--were released this past September by subcommittees of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN). More »