The NeurologyLive® movement disorders clinical focus page is a source for all the latest news regarding the clinical care of patients with Parkinson disease, essential tremor, Huntington disease, dystonia, ataxia, and more. This page features podcasts, videos, and news about FDA actions, study and clinical trial findings, clinical guideline updates, and interviews with experts in the clinical care of movement disorders.
August 25th 2025
Experts shared their clinical perspectives on trending topics in the treatment and management of movement disorders at the 4th Annual Advanced Therapeutics in Movement and Related Disorders (ATMRD) Congress.
Parkinson Disease Symptoms Improved With Modification of Advanced Therapies
December 18th 2023A new retrospective analysis revealed that modifying advanced therapies led to improved motor and subjective symptoms, emphasizing the importance of considering combination therapies when efficacy declines or adverse events arise.
Real-Time Quaking-Induced Conversion CSF Analysis Useful in Detecting Misfolded Alpha-Synuclein
December 18th 2023A-synuclein-positive athletes were similar to α-synuclein-negative athletes on demographics and other serum and blood biomarkers; however, these patients had lower grey matter volumes in the right inferior orbitofrontal, right anterior insula, and right olfactory cortices.
Specific Cerebellar Structural Alterations in Parkinson Disease Associated With Disease Staging
December 13th 2023Lobule VIIB showed a non-linear pattern of lower volume with each Hoehn and Yahr-increment bilaterally, with the most significant group differences at stages 4-5 compared with controls.
Greater Insights on Skyhawk’s RNA Splicing Agent SKY-0515 for Huntington Disease
December 11th 2023Maura McCarthy, head of corporate development at Skyhawk Therapeutics, provided comment on a new phase 1 study assessing SKY-0515, a small molecule candidate as a potential treatment for Huntington disease.
Multicompartment Models of Free-Water Imaging Shows Distinctive Brain Pathology in Friedreich Ataxia
December 7th 2023A recent study showed the efficacy of multicompartment diffusion measures in distinguishing patients with Friedreich ataxia from controls, emphasizing the potential for these metrics in tracking disease expression and progression.