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Strangled by Dr Strangelove? Anarchic hand following a posterior cerebral artery territory ischemic stroke
We present a case of a 74-year-old man who developed an anarchic right hand following thrombolysis for a posterior cerebral artery territory ischemic stroke.
Source: Age and Ageing - July 16, 2020 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research

MRI for all: Cheap portable scanners aim to revolutionize medical imaging
.news-article__hero--featured .parallax__element{ object-position: 47% 50%; -o-object-position: 47% 50%; } The patient, a man in his 70s with a shock of silver hair, lies in the neuro intensive care unit (neuro ICU) at Yale New Haven Hospital. Looking at him, you’d never know that a few days earlier a tumor was removed from his pituitary gland. The operation didn’t leave a mark because, as is standard, surgeons reached the tumor through his nose. He chats cheerfully with a pair of research associates who have come to check his progress with a new and potentially revolutionary device they are testing. The cylind...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - February 23, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research

Depressive symptoms across the age span: findings from an integrated epilepsy self-management clinical studies dataset.
Epilepsy has been reported by the CDC to have a prevalence of 1.2% in the United States, which accounts for roughly 3.4 million adults in 2015. Nearly 1 million of those adults are aged 55 or older.1 Epilepsy is more likely to develop in older adults because risk factors for epilepsy are more common as people age including stroke/cardiovascular disease, neurodegenerative disorders, brain tumor and long-term sequelae of alcohol abuse.2 As our population ages, there will be even more older people with epilepsy.
Source: The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry - February 28, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Zaira Khalid, Hasina Momotaz, Kristen Cassidy, Naomi Chaytor, Robert Fraser, Mary Janevic, Barbara Jobst, Erica Johnson, Peter Scal, Tanya Spruill, Martha Sajatovic Tags: Poster Number: EI - 9 Source Type: research

Imaging subtle leaks in the blood –brain barrier in the aging human brain: potential pitfalls, challenges, and possible solutions
AbstractRecent studies using dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) with gadolinium-based contrast agents (GBCA) have demonstrated subtle blood –brain barrier (BBB) leaks in the human brain during normal aging, in individuals with age-related cognitive dysfunction, genetic risk for Alzheimer’s disease (AD), mild cognitive impairment, early AD, cerebral small vessel disease (SVD), and other neurodegenerative disorders. In these neurologi cal conditions, the BBB leaks, quantified by the unidirectional BBB GBCA tracer’s constantKtrans maps, are typically orders of magnitude lower than in brain tu...
Source: AGE - April 25, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research