Movement Disorders

Neurology News Network for the week ending January 4, 2020.

Recent findings suggest that patients with Parkinson disease may have impaired swimming ability, even in light of motor improvements with treatment.

The approvals introduced several new classes of drugs, including the ditans and gepants in migraine, as well as novel formulations that can ease the administration of treatments for Parkinson disease and epilepsy.

Catch up on some of our most popular Peer Exchange panels with experts in the field, including discussions on epilepsy, migraine, multiple sclerosis, and more.

WVE-120102 is the first allele-selective molecule that preferentially lowers mHTT protein by targeting SNP2 in order to maintain levels of healthy or wild-type HTT protein.

Catch up on some of our most popular video interviews with leaders in the field, including discussions with Imad Najm, MD, James Leverenz, MD, Richard Isaacson, MD, and more.

A greater understanding of the role of the immune system in movement disorders may illuminate a path to treatments that target the central causes of disease.

After resubmitting the NDA for apomorphine sublingual film (APL-130277), the FDA has set the new PDUFA action date of May 21, 2020.