Posts for Category: Clinical

Depression rates were higher in those with normal intellectual functioning than in their siblings or in cases with intellectual disability.  Patients... Read more »

A vitamin is an essential nutrient that our body must obtain from food. Yet, this is not the case for vitamin... Read more »

A preservative in processed foods could hold one of the clues to the rising rates of autism in the U.S., according... Read more »

In what’s being called the largest study of its kind, researchers say that the likelihood of developing autism is overwhelmingly rooted... Read more »

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved levodopa inhalation powder (Inbrija, Acorda Therapeutics) for intermittent treatment of “off” episodes in... Read more »

People with Parkinson’s disease who received zonisamide, in addition to levodopa and other anti-Parkinson’s medications had significantly reduced odds of developing... Read more »

Parkinson disease has a complicated relationship with psychiatric disorders. Some medications used to treat this disease can lead to psychosis or... Read more »

Researchers from the University of Edinburgh report that lovastatin (Mevacor, Altocor, etc.) corrected learning and memory problems in rats with a... Read more »

Decline in several cognitive domains continues for a decade after disease onset and is not attributable to medication effects.  Patients with... Read more »

The anticonvulsant ezogabine (also known as retigabine) significantly reduced depressive symptoms, anhedonia, and increased resilience to stress in a small open-label study... Read more »