Alzheimer’s and Psilocybin; Migraine and Driving; What New MS Criteria Reveal

An older Japanese American woman with advanced Alzheimer’s disease experienced transient improvements in multiple domains after taking psilocybin-containing mushrooms, according to a case report. (Frontiers in Neuroscience)

Cross-sectional data showed that 70.6% of migraine patients experienced a headache at least once while driving. (Scientific Reports)

Fewer than one in four patients with stroke and less than one in seven with traumatic brain injury received inpatient rehabilitation, according to a large retrospective study. (Neurology Open Access)

Hearing aid use was associated with a lower risk of probable dementia in pooled data across 33 countries. (Cell Reports Medicine)

Older adults with dementia had shortened survival and spent more time in skilled nursing or long-term care facilities after hip fracture than those without dementia, a longitudinal study showed. (JAMA Network Open)

Researchers identified autism subtypes using functional connectivity analyses in humans and mice. (Nature Neuroscience)

In a multicenter study, 19% of people without typical presentations met the 2024 McDonald criteria for multiple sclerosis (MS) at baseline. (Neurology)

A review looked at how hospital-treated infections may be linked with Alzheimer’s pathology. (Molecular Psychiatry)

Cancer-linked genetic mutations in brain immune cells may contribute to chronic inflammation and neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s disease, lab studies suggested. (Cell)

Doctors said they are receiving more requests for Alzheimer’s blood tests from healthy, symptom-free people. (Wall Street Journal via MSN)

An Alzheimer’s expert discussed how she failed to recognize the first signs of the disease in her father. (STAT)

Veteran New York news anchor Bill Ritter was diagnosed with early Alzheimer’s. (HuffPost)

The family of former NFL star Aldon Smith will donate his brain to Boston University to research the effects of repeated head injuries after his sudden death at age 36. (AP)