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Stanford Children’s Health: A Comprehensive Approach to Care for a Child With a Neurological Condition

Physicians from Stanford Children’s Health offer their keys to successful pediatric neuroscience teams and what to focus on to provide a better quality of life for children.

Episode 140: Down Syndrome and Alzheimer’s: Clinical Trials, Equity, and Patient-Centered Progress

Mind Moments®, a podcast from NeurologyLive®, brings you an exclusive interview with Elizabeth Head, PhD. [LISTEN TIME: 20 minutes]

Understanding the Evolving Care of Rehabilitation and Stroke Recovery

Explore innovative neurorehabilitation strategies for stroke recovery, emphasizing personalized approaches and advanced technologies to enhance patient outcomes.

Bridging Neurology and Ophthalmology in Multiple Sclerosis Research

In this final episode, neurologists discuss the role of advanced imaging, like OCT, in diagnosing and managing MS, emphasizing the need for further research to optimize its clinical application. [WATCH TIME: 2 minutes]

Episode 141: Refining TSC Care: Phenotyping, Clustering, and Clinical Impact

Mind Moments®, a podcast from NeurologyLive®, brings you an exclusive interview with Ajay Gupta, MD. [LISTEN TIME: 17 minutes]

Exploring a Holistic Approach to Rare Disease: Finding Flexibility and Convenience in a CIDP Treatment

Advancing Equity and Inclusion: Health Literacy for the MS Community and Beyond

Elizabeth Miller, MA, the manager of health literacy at the National MS Society, discussed the impact of health literacy in the multiple sclerosis community.

Equity in the Media and Academia

There should be a holistic approach to how the systems in place affect equity: how medicine is practiced and research is conducted, the structure of academic institutions, and how media influence our perceptions of neurologic conditions.

Outlining Phase 3 VITALIZE and MOBILIZE Trials of Riliprubart in CIDP: Luis Querol, MD, PhD

The neurologist at the Hospital de la Santa Creu, in Barcelona, Spain, outlined the goals and significance of the VITALIZE and MOBILIZE phase 3 trials evaluating riliprubart in standard-of-care and treatment-refractory CIDP populations. [WATCH TIME: 3 minutes]

Episode 142: World MS Day: Raising Awareness, Evolving Care, and Empowering Patients

Mind Moments®, a podcast from NeurologyLive®, brings you an exclusive interview with Taylor Hess, MD. [LISTEN TIME: 10 minutes]

Navigating an Expanding Treatment Toolbox for MS

“Is more always better?”: The age-old question is more relevant than ever as clinicians and patients alike navigate an increasingly crowded MS treatment landscape.

Virtual Reality is a Game-Changer During Blood Draws for Pediatric Patients With Spinal Muscular Atrophy

In honor of Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) Awareness Month, Abraham Homer, MS, the gaming technology supervisor and creative technologist at Children's Hospital Colorado, shared how virtual reality transformed care for patients with SMA.

Optimizing the Migraine Consultation

Proper diagnosis and effective treatment planning can drastically improve quality of life for individuals with migraine.

A More Selective Immune Approach to CIDP With Riliprubart: Claudia Sommer, MD

The president-elect of the Peripheral Nerve Society provided clinical context the mechanism and clinical relevance of riliprubart, a targeted complement inhibitor in development for chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy. [WATCH TIME: 3 minutes]

It Is Time to Redefine Outcomes in Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery

Successful epilepsy surgery in adults has been followed by forced normalization, depression, and memory issues, resulting in questions about the use of the metrics in the study of broader outcomes—a problem even more prominent in pediatric epilepsy surgery.

Advocacy and Empowerment: Finding Your Advocacy Community

The Palatucci Advocacy Leadership Forum, or PALF, sponsored by the American Academy of Neurology, gives neurologists and trainees tools to successfully advocate for their ideas and develop their identity as physician advocates.

Challenges and Opportunities Bringing Lecanemab to Neurology Community Clinics 

A group of experts from The Neuron Clinic shared their experience developing a novel inclusive clinical program to treat patients with early Alzheimer disease using lecanemab.

ChatGPT: A Promising Tool to Combat Social Isolation and Loneliness in Older Adults With Mild Cognitive Impairment

Recent advances in artificial intelligence—particularly conversational AI tools such as ChatGPT—suggest promising potential in addressing the issues of loneliness and social isolation in these patient populations.

Finding Happiness as a Trailblazer

Deborah Benzil, MD, FAAS, vice chair of neurosurgery at Cleveland Clinic's Center for Spine Health, shared her extraordinary journey of resilience, from overcoming repeated rejections to becoming a trailblazer for women in neurosurgery, and reflects on the progress made and the challenges that remain.

Hiding in Plain Sight: MS and Domestic Violence and Abuse

When looking at the intersection of MS and domestic abuse, one can find hidden challenges and a need for innovative efforts to support vulnerable patients and survivors.

Building the Myasthenia Gravis Armamentarium

Since it was first discovered in the early 1900s, the therapeutic approaches to treating myasthenia gravis have changed significantly, with several proven treatment options.

Read All About It: How On-Demand Therapy Has Changed the PD Landscape

As therapeutic development has advanced in Parkinson disease management, the introduction of on-demand options have extended ON time for patients and altered the paradigm of care.

Stanford Children’s Health: A Comprehensive Approach to Care for a Child With a Neurological Condition

Physicians from Stanford Children’s Health offer their keys to successful pediatric neuroscience teams and what to focus on to provide a better quality of life for children.

Taking the Leap: Forging Your Own Path as a Woman in Medicine

Theresa Sevilis, DO, writes on picking a career path in medicine as a woman, and how deciding to jump ship from a traditional path was among the best decisions she's made.

PPD/TFS Fostering Global Awareness in Rare Disorders

Rare Disease Day raises awareness for rare disorders, highlighting challenges, improving detection, and fostering collaboration for treatment advancements.

Episode 145: Rewiring Stroke Recovery: What the Glymphatic System Can Teach Us

Mind Moments®, a podcast from NeurologyLive®, brings you an exclusive interview with Joyce Lee-Iannotti, MD, PhD. [LISTEN TIME: 17 minutes]

Digital Health Tool Offers Innovative Quantitative Fall Assessment Solution for Older Adults

Falls cost the US more than $50 billion annually, but platforms like CatchU, a transformative digital health tool, provide quantitative fall assessment that might significantly enhance the current standard of care for predicting falls.