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Mild neurocognitive disorders (NCDs) are present in one in five community-dwelling older adults in Hong Kong, while 70 percent of older adults living in residential care homes have dementia, researchers from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) have reported.

Apathy may have a significant impact on cognitive health of stroke survivors, according to results of a cross-sectional study by the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

An intranasally administered recombinant human erythropoietin without erythropoietic activity and shorter plasma half-life (neuroEPO) restores cognitive function or delays progression in most patients with mild-to-moderate Alzheimer’s disease, results of the phase II/III double-blind, placebo-controlled ATHENEA trial have shown.

In the treatment of patients with acute ischaemic stroke, treatment with exenatide does not appear to have any beneficial effect on neurological function at 7 days but is safe and substantially decreases the frequency of hyperglycaemic events, without leading to hypoglycaemia, according to the results of the phase II TEXAIS trial.