Expert Insights

Madeleine Liljegren, MD, PhD, Lund University, explains why it is important to screen for neurodegenerative disorders among previous law-abiding citizens who start to behave in an odd way or even commit crimes.

Inmaculada Hernandez, PharmD, PhD, University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy, explains why clinicians should evaluate the risk-benefit profile of the different antidementia medications and individualize their prescribing patterns based on...

Esther Oh, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, explains why preoperative determination of Alzheimer disease biomarkers in older adults who break their hips and must undergo hip fracture...

Rob di Bie, MD, PhD, neurologist and professor of Movement Disorders at the University of Amsterdam’s Faculty of Medicine, discusses the long-term effects of a specific PD medication and the impact of starting the drug early.

We spoke with Nicole J Brandt, PharmD, MBA, BCGP, BCPP, FASCP, a Beers Criteria panel member, about how the panel decided on the new 2019 updates.

Michael Fralick, MD, FRCPC, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, discusses his recent study that examined a medication approved for psuedobulbar affect, which he found was regularly being prescribed to patients with PD and dementia. He explains why...

In this week's GeriPal podcast we talk with Tim Girard, Plumonary Critical Care physician-researcher at the University of Pittsburgh about his study NEJM study of Haloperidol vs. Ziprasidone vs. Placebo for ICU delirium in critically ill...

On this weeks podcast we talk with Aanand Naik about his recent JAGS article titled "Development of a Clinically Feasible Process for Identifying Individual Health Priorities".  Aanand's many titles include Investigator, Houston Center for...

  On this weeks podcast, we invited Rebecca Sudore to talk about the results of her PREPARE randomized trial that was published in JAMA Internal Medicine this week.   The trial enrolled nearly 1,000 English and Spanish speaking older...