{"title":"Building an ethnically and racially diverse neurology workforce","authors":"Roy H. Hamilton","doi":"10.1038/s41582-024-00941-3","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41582-024-00941-3","url":null,"abstract":"As diversity among patient populations continues to grow, racial and ethnic diversity in the neurology workforce is increasingly essential to the delivery of culturally competent care and for enabling inclusive, generalizable clinical research. Unfortunately, diversity in the workforce is an area in which the field of neurology has historically lagged and faces formidable challenges, including an inadequate number of trainees entering the field, bias experienced by trainees and faculty from minoritized racial and ethnic backgrounds, and ‘diversity tax’, the disproportionate burden of service work placed on minoritized people in many professions. Although neurology departments, professional organizations and relevant industry partners have come to realize the importance of diversity to the field and have taken steps to promote careers in neurology for people from minoritized backgrounds, additional steps are needed. Such steps include the continued creation of diversity leadership roles in neurology departments and organizations, the creation of robust pipeline programmes, aggressive recruitment and retention efforts, the elevation of health equity research and engagement with minoritized communities. Overall, what is needed is a shift in culture in which diversity is adopted as a core value in the field. In this Review, Hamilton dissects the importance of racial and ethnic diversity among the neurology workforce for providing inclusive and equitable care to diverse populations. The Review summarizes current barriers to achieving diversity in the field and presents strategic approaches to overcoming these.","PeriodicalId":19085,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Neurology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":38.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41582-024-00941-3.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139932210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ultrasound and antibodies — a potentially powerful combination for Alzheimer disease therapy","authors":"Jürgen Götz, Pranesh Padmanabhan","doi":"10.1038/s41582-024-00943-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41582-024-00943-1","url":null,"abstract":"Success in a trial of low-intensity ultrasound combined with an amyloid-β antibody represents a major stride towards integrating pharmacological and nonpharmacological approaches to reduce the amyloid-β load in patients with mild Alzheimer disease. This trial also highlights the potential of therapeutic ultrasound modalities to combat neurodegenerative diseases.","PeriodicalId":19085,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Neurology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":38.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139913148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anita Kamondi, Madeleine Grigg-Damberger, Wolfgang Löscher, Heikki Tanila, Andras Attila Horvath
{"title":"Epilepsy and epileptiform activity in late-onset Alzheimer disease: clinical and pathophysiological advances, gaps and conundrums","authors":"Anita Kamondi, Madeleine Grigg-Damberger, Wolfgang Löscher, Heikki Tanila, Andras Attila Horvath","doi":"10.1038/s41582-024-00932-4","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41582-024-00932-4","url":null,"abstract":"A growing body of evidence has demonstrated a link between Alzheimer disease (AD) and epilepsy. Late-onset epilepsy and epileptiform activity can precede cognitive deterioration in AD by years, and its presence has been shown to predict a faster disease course. In animal models of AD, amyloid and tau pathology are linked to cortical network hyperexcitability that precedes the first signs of memory decline. Thus, detection of epileptiform activity in AD has substantial clinical importance as a potential novel modifiable risk factor for dementia. In this Review, we summarize the epidemiological evidence for the complex bidirectional relationship between AD and epilepsy, examine the effect of epileptiform activity and seizures on cognition in people with AD, and discuss the precision medicine treatment strategies based on the latest research in human and animal models. Finally, we outline some of the unresolved questions of the field that should be addressed by rigorous research, including whether particular clinicopathological subtypes of AD have a stronger association with epilepsy, and the sequence of events between epileptiform activity and amyloid and tau pathology. Growing evidence suggests a bidirectional relationship between Alzheimer disease and epilepsy. This Review summarizes the epidemiological evidence and explores the potential mechanisms that underlie the effects of epileptiform activity on cognition in people with Alzheimer disease.","PeriodicalId":19085,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Neurology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":38.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139735696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Questioning the cycad theory of Kii ALS–PDC causation","authors":"Yasumasa Kokubo, Satoru Morimoto, Mari Yoshida","doi":"10.1038/s41582-024-00936-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41582-024-00936-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19085,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Neurology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":38.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41582-024-00936-0.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139712679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Katerina Menšíková, Raymond Rosales, Carlo Colosimo, Peter Spencer, Annie Lannuzel, Yoshikazu Ugawa, Ryogen Sasaki, Santiago Giménez-Roldán, Radoslav Matej, Lucie Tuckova, Dominik Hrabos, Kristyna Kolarikova, Radek Vodicka, Radek Vrtel, Miroslav Strnad, Petr Hlustik, Pavel Otruba, Martin Prochazka, Martin Bares, Susana Boluda, Luc Buee, Gerhard Ransmayr, Petr Kaňovský
{"title":"Reply to: Questioning the cycad theory of Kii ALS–PDC causation","authors":"Katerina Menšíková, Raymond Rosales, Carlo Colosimo, Peter Spencer, Annie Lannuzel, Yoshikazu Ugawa, Ryogen Sasaki, Santiago Giménez-Roldán, Radoslav Matej, Lucie Tuckova, Dominik Hrabos, Kristyna Kolarikova, Radek Vodicka, Radek Vrtel, Miroslav Strnad, Petr Hlustik, Pavel Otruba, Martin Prochazka, Martin Bares, Susana Boluda, Luc Buee, Gerhard Ransmayr, Petr Kaňovský","doi":"10.1038/s41582-024-00938-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41582-024-00938-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19085,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Neurology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":38.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41582-024-00938-y.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139712680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"T cells implicate Epstein–Barr virus in multiple sclerosis pathogenesis","authors":"Ian Fyfe","doi":"10.1038/s41582-024-00939-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41582-024-00939-x","url":null,"abstract":"T cells that are specific for B cells infected with Epstein–Barr virus are enriched in the cerebrospinal fluid of people with early multiple sclerosis, according to new research.","PeriodicalId":19085,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Neurology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":38.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139700757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mitochondrial DNA instability in Huntington disease","authors":"Lisa Kiani","doi":"10.1038/s41582-024-00937-z","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41582-024-00937-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19085,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Neurology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":38.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139700765","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Regional vulnerability to Aβ and tau pathology","authors":"Lisa Kiani","doi":"10.1038/s41582-024-00934-2","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41582-024-00934-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19085,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Neurology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":38.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139700837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}