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The director of the Memory & Cognitive Disorders Clinic at Hoag Neuroscience Institute provided detail on an educational course that examined medication management for Parkinson disease psychosis.

In a study of more than 1500 adolescents, two-thirds of individuals experienced relief from functional disability with Nerivio.

Fenfluramine was originally approved as a therapy for Dravet syndrome in 2020, and later gained expanded indication for Lennox-Gastaut syndrome in 2022.

The FDA is expected to make a decision by May 10, 2023, whether brexpiprazole will become the first approved therapy for Alzheimer disease agitation.

A derived Obstructive Sleep Apnea score of 2-3 and cumulative sleep symptoms were found to be associated with a significantly higher odds of acute stroke.

In addition to high rates of individuals who required rescue therapy after midazolam, a substantial number of children needed respiratory support following.

In patients with high C-reactive protein levels treated with NP001, investigators observed a 64% slower rate of decline in forced vital capacity.

ARIA-inducing monoclonal antibodies accelerated ventricular enlargement to a point where a striking correlation between ventricular volume and ARIA frequency was observed.

The multicenter, multiple-ascending dose trial will feature 64 patients with ALS who will be assessed on safety and pharmacokinetic outcomes.

Evobrutinib, a highly selective BTK inhibitor, has previously demonstrated positive impacts on relapse rates and neurofilament light in patients with relapsing multiple sclerosis.

On average, across all levels of physical fatigue, participants would accept a 0.32 year decrease in time to multiple sclerosis progression in exchange for a 3.57-point change in FSIQ-RMS-S score.

The neurosurgeon at Marcus Neuroscience Institute, Baptist Health, provided perspective on invasive procedures for degenerative conditions and when deep brain stimulation is needed.

In the phase 2 study, patients with Guillian-Barré syndrome will receive imlifidase on day 1, followed with intravenous immunoglobulin on days 3-7, with outcomes of safety and change in disability.

Compared with children without posttraumatic headache, those who experienced migraine symptoms following concussion were nearly 3 times more likely to report reliable increases in somatic symptoms.

At 2-year follow-up, 72% of patients with drug-resistant epilepsy who underwent surgery were seizure-free, compared with 33% of patients on standard medical therapy.

After 6 months of stimulation, more than half (53%) of patients with drug-resistant epilepsy were responders to treatment with at least a 50% reduction in seizure frequency.

Incidence of narcolepsy increased 4.17- and 1.42-fold during and after the 2009 H1N1 pandemic when compared with baseline.

The phase 3 trial, pending the FDA’s approval of new finalized protocol, will be conducted across 25 to 30 sites in the US, comparing the safety of GTX-104 with oral nimodipine.

Increased odds of miscarriage, stillbirth, preterm birth, and maternal birth were documented in women with epilepsy. These odds were increased with greater use of antiseizure medication.

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More than 95% of the cohort of elderly patients showed functional improvement at 6 months after plasma exchange, including 60% who experienced moderate-to-marked improvement.

Treatment with neflamapimod was associated with statistically significantly higher functional dynamic connectivity, with almost half of the cohort experiencing a greater than 10% increase over time.

Amyloid clearance was achieved by 75% of participants who received remternetug at doses ranging from 700 to 2800 mg IV Q4Q by day 169.

Anastasia Vishnevetsky, MD, an immunology fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, provided insight on the latest research initiatives in MOG-antibody associated disease, including the potential for the first FDA-approved therapy.

Investigators identified associations between several distance and area-related life-space measures with TUG performance, not NIHSS or modified Rankin scales scores.

Pitolisant will be assessed in 200 patients with idiopathic hypersomnia, using change in excessive daytime sleepiness as the primary end point.

Russell Cerejo, MD, vascular neurologist at Allegheny Health Network, discussed the ways basilar artery occlusions are identified and treated despite lack of consensus guidelines.

Statistically significant improvements in several quantitative test measures of episodic memory, attentiveness, and depressive emotional bias were observed in patients treated with clenbuterol and nadolol.

Over a 24-week treatment period, reldesemtiv failed to show a significant effect vs placebo on the primary end point of ALS Functional Scale-Revised, as well as other key secondary end points.

Similar to data reported at 35 weeks, patients on eplontersen continued to see consistent reductions in serum transthyretin concentration for up to 66 weeks of treatment.