cognitive impairment

In 2012, Newhouse and Levin published a randomized controlled trial showing that short-term nicotine use improved cognitive performance in people with mild cognitive impairment.

Both he and Levin are skeptical that nicotine will ever gain FDA approval for cognitive impairment.

“We have found that nicotine patches are useful along a whole spectrum of impairments, like people with ADHD, Alzheimer’s, and people with age-related memory and cognitive impairment,” says Edward Levin, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University who studies the effects of nicotine.

According to documents filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court last spring, Mavis Leno’s court-appointed attorney said that during his investigation into Jay Leno’s effort to be a permanent conservator, he learned that Mavis has “major neurocognitive disorders,” cognitive impairment and “sometimes does not know her husband, Jay, nor her date of birth.”

Spraying insulin up the nose — where brain tissue reaches outside the brain, making up the olfactory bulb — improves cognition in people with early Alzheimer’s dementia and with mild cognitive impairment.