Neurology

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Depression in COPD patients is one of the most common, yet least recognized comorbidities, with prevalence ranging from 17% to 44%.

In this Medical News Minute, Dr Bobby Lazzara looks at the impact of PPI use on incident dementia in the elderly.

This brief slide show toplines key research from the 58th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Headache Society, June 1-4, 2016.

Headache is common, but the diagnosis is not always easy. Take this quick quiz to test what you know.

Headache was a hot topic at the AAN Annual Meeting, and several studies have added to the literature. This slideshow summarizes the latest.

"Keep calm and carry on" suggests a thoughtful gastroenterologist whose patients continue to ask for reassurance.

She comes to your ED with a wide range of symptoms but results of her physical examination are WNL. Given her presentation, what's in your workup?

Next time you're stumped by a difficult presentation, ask, “Have you recently started any new medications or changed the dose of any of your old medications?”

Clinician mental health advocate Pamela Wible, MD, has drafted The 10 Commandments for Medical Educators. Your comments welcomed.

The body of medical knowledge has been growing since ancient times. Test your knowledge of past developments in the art and science of healing.

Getting caught up in a patient’s bad mood may set up a lose-lose proposition.

Using music in medicine is an ancient practice. Here we review recent research efforts to better understand and apply music’s healing powers.

Any doc can do it: First, do NOT touch the patient, but DO check all EHR boxes for ROS and PE; also, do be sure to Rx yoga.

A physician says she has lied on job applications about treatment for postpartum depression. Is that really necessary?

"Primary care docs should be paid more, specialists less. More reimbursement for talking...less for testing and procedures." And, there's more.

A neurologist who treats headache has his eyes opened to the real possibility of marijuana as medicinal.

Results of two recent studies suggest that perioperative "bridge" anticoagulation may do more harm than good in some patients.

An association was found between headache or non-migrainous headache and later dementia. Not so for migraine.

Here's intriguing evidence that certain structural changes in the brain may be related to chronic migraines.

They work all week at stressful jobs without a headache--and spend the weekend in bed with a breakthrough migraine. What to do for them?

Do you know what drugs current guidelines recommend? Get an 8-slide update, here.

A new analysis of the ALLHAT study finds greater morbidity among patients with visit-to-visit variation in systolic BP than among those with more consistent measures.

If one triptan doesn't work for your patient's migraines, try, try again. A neurologist offers tips on the pros and cons of the 6 available agents.

A multi-step inflammatory cascade appears to connect hyperglycemia and brain dysfunction.