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Our new study proposed a modification to the Geriatric Depressions Scale to make it more specific for diagnosing depression in dementia patients.

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January 27, 2026 at 12:18 AM
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The safety study of focused ultrasound in Alzheimer's disease is now published and, delighted to report, it is completely safe. A great credit to the years of painstaking preclinical work by Jürgen Götz and his team to get it to this point...
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A pilot safety and tolerability study of scanning ultrasound as a neuromodulation therapy in Alzheimer’s disease
Nestor et al. deployed a portable, handheld neuronavigation-guided low-intensity ultrasound system in a single-arm safety and feasibility study involving 1
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December 15, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Our latest study highlighting a bunch of factors to consider that could improve diagnostic accuracy in Frontotemporal Dementia.

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Factors associated with true‐positive and false‐positive diagnoses of behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia in 100 consecutive referrals from specialist physicians
Background The behavioural variant of frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) is a challenging diagnosis due to overlapping symptoms with psychiatric and other neurological conditions. Accordingly, misdiagn.....
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April 4, 2025 at 2:12 AM