Isabella Ciccone, MPH

In honor of Traumatic Brain Injury Month, held on March 2023, get caught up on some of the latest news in traumatic brain injury as the NeurologyLive® team shares some of our data updates.

Beth McQuiston, MD, RD, neurologist, and medical director at Abbott, shared her initial reaction to the FDA approval of the blood test for traumatic brain injury and a campaign to bring awareness to concussions.

Pitolisant, marketed as Wakix, recently received approval from the European Medicines Agency for pediatric narcolepsy with or without cataplexy.

Pitolisant, a selective histamine H3 receptor inverse agonist, reduced the frequency of cataplexy in pediatric patients with narcolepsy.

Michael Levy, MD, PhD, associate professor at Harvard Medical School, talked about the differences between multiple sclerosis and neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder, the currently available treatments, and next steps in research.

Disease activity, severity, or effect of treatment in patients with NMOSD may be predicted by aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase-interacting multifunctional protein-1.

An evaluation on the long-term treatment profile of sodium oxybate on pediatrics with narcolepsy revealed a safety profile similar to previous adult studies and identified no unexpected safety concerns.

In honor of Purple Day, held on March 26, 2023, get caught up on some of the latest news in epilepsy as the NeurologyLive® team shares some of our data updates.

As a recap from MDA 2023, get caught up on some of the latest news in neuromuscular diseases as the NeurologyLive® team shares some of our data updates.

Differences in baseline characteristics and eligible criteria in presymptomatic infants with spinal muscular atrophy led to differential results on motor and nonmotor clinical outcomes.

Anne Marie Morse, DO, a pediatric neurologist and sleep medicine specialist at Geisinger Medical Center, talked about the challenges that adolescents with narcolepsy face in their social relationships.

Patients with cerebellar ataxia made riskier decisions than controls, suggesting this may be a unique cerebellar cognitive symptom.

In honor of World Sleep Day, held March 17, 2023, get caught up on some of the latest news in sleep disorders as the NeurologyLive® team shares some of our data updates.

Marcus Carstensen, PhD candidate, CTO and co-founder of OptoCeutics in Copenhagen, Denmark, talked about the mechanisms of using noninvasive light technologies for Alzheimer disease treatment.

In honor of Brain Awareness Week, held March 13, 2023, to March 19, 2023, get caught up on some of the latest news in neurology as the NeurologyLive® team shares some of our data updates.

At the 2023 ACTRIMS forum, Omar Al-Louzi, MD, director of the Visual Outcomes Laboratory at Cedars Sinai, talked about investigating the relationship between viral infections and multiple sclerosis using MRIs.

A comparison of narcolepsy cases from the Russian Narcolepsy Network did not differ from data in the European Narcolepsy Network.

In honor of National Sleep Awareness Week, a group of experts in the care of patients with sleep disorders—Wendy Troxel, PhD; Garth Whiteside; Milena Pavlova, MD; Ronald Gavidia, MD, MS; Renee Shellhaas, MD, MS, FAES—shared their perspectives on hot topics of treatment and management in sleep medicine.

Jeffery Neul, MD, PhD, director of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center, and professor of pediatrics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, shared his reactions and thoughts to the approval of trofinetide.

In honor of Brain Awareness Week, a group of experts in the care of patients with neurological conditions—Ronald C. Petersen, MD, PhD; Brian Grosberg, MD, FAHS; James Beck, PhD; Michael Levy, MD, PhD; Stanley H. Appel, MD —shared their perspectives on hot topics of treatment and management in neurology.

Published findings showed that narcolepsy has a significant impact on social relationships in adolescents, thus suggesting that structured routine for assessing social health is a vital first step for treatment.

Omar Al-Louzi, MD, director of the Visual Outcomes Laboratory at Cedars Sinai, provided his clinical perspective on role of imaging and viral infections in patients with MS at the 2023 ACTRIMS forum.

Despite higher baseline scores, Expanded Disability Status Scale scores remained stable over time in Black patients treated with ocrelizumab for multiple sclerosis.

The therapy, marketed as Daybue, is the first therapy indicated for Rett syndrome with supporting data from the pivotal phase 3 LAVENDER study.

Literature reveals an inconsistency in sex differences between women and men, among individuals living with dementia with Lewy bodies and their caregivers.

The phase 2b trial investigating SciSparc’s SCI-110 for Tourette syndrome was recently granted approval to proceed by the Israeli Ministry of Health.

Expression of CD16 and activation markers in natural killer and natural killer-T cells may be responsible for the escalating autoimmune activity in NMOSD.

A group of experts in the care of patients with multiple sclerosis—Marisa McGinley, DO; Farrah Mateen, MD, PhD; Laura Piccio, MD, PhD; Robert Zivadinov, MD, PhD; and Bruce Cree, MD, PhD, MAS, FAAN—shared their perspectives on hot topics of treatment and management from the 2023 ACTRIMS Forum.

The international study on genetic testing and counseling, PD GENEration, is currently at the halfway mark of its goal of 15,000 participants.

Rajiv Jain, PhD, post-doctoral associate, department of clinical neurosciences, University of Calgary, talked about his presentation on T-bet+ memory B-cells in multiple sclerosis at the 2023 ACTRIMS Forum.