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Phase 2a trial results showed 800 mg vutiglabridin significantly improved motor symptom scores compared with placebo in early-stage Parkinson's disease.

Investigational oral dopamine agonist prodrug boosts good ON-time, cuts OFF-time and dyskinesia, and reduces levodopa in advanced Parkinson disease, as phase 2 begins.

The associate vice president of clinical research at the Parkinson's Foundation discussed a large-scale replication of rs3115534-G, a noncoding GBA1 variant tied to Parkinson disease in people of African ancestry.

At a NeurologyLive Clinical Forum in Philadelphia, Jessica D. Schulte, MD, PhD, of NYU Grossman School of Medicine, discussed how earlier recognition and systemic therapy options are changing the treatment paradigm for patients with NF1-associated plexiform neurofibromas.

Benjamin Walter, MD, MBA, discusses how advances in biomarker testing and genetic characterization are informing Parkinson disease care, alongside developments in adaptive deep brain stimulation and efforts to identify disease earlier.

Seven investigational cerebral palsy therapies—from baby-tooth stem cells to cannabinoids and botulinum toxin—show mixed early results, highlighting key clinical trial milestones ahead.

Late-breaking findings from MDS 2026 suggest a gluten-free diet may affect cognitive and quality-of-life measures in Parkinson disease, although no significant changes in motor function were observed.

Exploratory extracellular vesicle biomarkers suggested KP405, a brain-penetrant GLP-1/GIP agonist, engaged insulin signaling and neuroinflammation pathways in a small phase 1 study.

Early phase 1 findings showed that the PROTAC LRRK2 degrader ARV-102 was associated with improvements in saccadic hypometria and changes in CSF markers of endolysosomal function, neuroinflammation, synaptic integrity, and axonal guidance in participants with Parkinson disease.

New analyses from the D1AMOND clinical program found that 69.8% of participants achieved a clinically meaningful reduction in tic severity within 8 weeks of ecopipam treatment, while an interim 18-month analysis showed sustained improvement without new safety signals.

Here's some of what is coming soon to NeurologyLive® this week.

PROPEL will test imeroprubart, an investigational FcRn blocker, against placebo in adults with mild to severe generalized myasthenia gravis.

Test your neurology knowledge with NeurologyLive®'s weekly quiz series, featuring questions on a variety of clinical and historical neurology topics. This week's topic is the history of MDS!