MS and Demyelinating Disorders

In patients with relapsing-remitting MS who achieved NEDA under highly effective DMT, sNfL concentrations were low and stable, suggesting a potential role for sNfL for long-term monitoring of inflammatory disease activity.

Here's some of what is coming soon to NeurologyLive® this week.

Test your neurology knowledge with NeurologyLive®'s weekly quiz series, featuring questions on a variety of clinical and historical neurology topics. This week's topic is on cluster headache.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending May 10, 2024.

Catch up on any of the neurology news headlines you may have missed over the course of April 2024, compiled all into one place by the NeurologyLive® team.

The director of the PET Imaging Program in Neurologic Diseases at Brigham and Women’s Hospital talked about nasal administration of foralumab that shows promise in treating patients with non-active secondary progressive MS. [WATCH TIME: 5 minutes]

Here's some of what is coming soon to NeurologyLive® this week.

The chief of the Division of MS and Neuroimmunology at UConn Health talked about the challenges with access to care in multiple sclerosis, particularly for marginalized communities, despite significant progress made in the field over the past decades. [WATCH TIME: 4 minutes]

Test your neurology knowledge with NeurologyLive®'s weekly quiz series, featuring questions on a variety of clinical and historical neurology topics. This week's topic is on treatment-refractory epilepsy.

To date, treatment with foralumab has shown promising results in stabilizing or improving clinical measures without serious adverse effects among patients with non-active secondary progressive multiple sclerosis.

Neurology News Network. for the week ending May 4, 2024. [WATCH TIME: 3 minutes]

Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending May 3, 2024.

The director for the Mayo Clinic Center for Multiple Sclerosis and Autoimmune Neurology provided an overview of the open-label extension of the phase 3 CHAMPION-NMOSD trial and how the newly approved ravulizumab fits with other NMOSD treatments. [WATCH TIME: 4 minutes]

In the phase 3 OCARINA 2 trial, subcutaneous ocrelizumab was non-inferior to intravenous infusion based on concentration levels in the blood, as well as comparable efficacy on relapses and brain lesions.

The award ceremony is supported by EMD Serono and Viatris and will take place on Thursday, May 30, 2024, at the Nashville Music City Center in Nashville, Tennessee, during the 2024 CMSC Annual Meeting.

The professor of neurology at Mayo Clinic talked about the need for comprehensive testing, careful consideration of criteria for diagnosis, and effective treatment in MOG antibody-associated disease.

The professor of neurology at Mayo Clinic discussed the importance of standardizing MOG- antibody testing techniques and the need for effective treatments in patients living with MOGAD. [WATCH TIME: 3 minutes]

In comparison to previously approved treatments like satralizumab and inebilizumab, ravulizumab-treated patients performed significant better on outcomes of first relapse and time to first relapse.

Ravulizumab reduced NfL levels in cerebrospinal fluid and serum whereas eculizumab showed no change in NfL when compared with placebo.

The professor of neurology at Mayo Clinic talked about MOG-antibody associated disease, a relatively newly recognized demyelinating condition of the central nervous system. [WATCH TIME: 4 minutes]

Here's some of what is coming soon to NeurologyLive® this week.

Test your neurology knowledge with NeurologyLive®'s weekly quiz series, featuring questions on a variety of clinical and historical neurology topics. This week's topic is on primary progressive aphasia.

Neurology News Network. for the week ending April 27, 2024. [WATCH TIME: 3 minutes]

Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending April 26, 2024.

The associate professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School discussed findings from a study investigating nasal foralumab in patients with non-active secondary progressive multiple sclerosis. [WATCH TIME: 5 minutes]