MS and Demyelinating Disorders

Following the switch from natalizumab, patients with multiple sclerosis on anti-CD20 therapies like rituximab demonstrated significant reductions in annualized relapse rate.

Catch up on any of the neurology news headlines you may have missed over the course of September 2023, compiled all into one place by the NeurologyLive® team.

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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 sleep disorders.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending October 6, 2023.

Researchers proposed a harmonized definition of progression independent of relapse activity that may improve the comparability of results in current and future study cohorts, according to a newly published systematic review.

After being diagnosed with acute flaccid myelitis more than 10 years ago, patient advocate Sarah Todd Hammer spoke on the ways in which disability should be viewed and discussed.

The associate professor of neurology at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai talked about the promising new treatments for multiple sclerosis, the significance of the spinal cord in the disease, and the use of artificial intelligence in neuroimaging. [WATCH TIME: 3 minutes]

The adjusted odds ratios observed for any vaccine and MS flare-ups requiring hospitalization were similar regardless of sex, with the highest odds observed for the pneumococcal vaccine.

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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 epilepsy and seizure disorders.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending September 29, 2023.

Erin Longbrake, MD, PhD, associate professor of neurology at Yale School of Medicine, discussed the importance of understanding rare autoimmune disorders to effectively design clinical trials and treatment strategies, especially for heterogeneous conditions like NMOSD and MOGAD.

The professor of neurology at Stony Brook University Medical Center discussed the progress observed in the field of multiple sclerosis and the lack of effective treatments for progressive forms of the disease. [WATCH TIME: 3 minutes]

The associate professor of neurology at Yale School of Medicine discussed the differentiation of neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders and myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein -associated disease from multiple sclerosis at IFN 2023. [WATCH TIME: 5 minutes]

Review the latest peer-reviewed articles dedicated to the multidisciplinary management of multiple sclerosis published in the International Journal of MS Care.

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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 headache and migraine.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending September 22, 2023.

Hesham Abboud, MD, PhD, associate professor of neurology at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, talked about a study that suggested the possibility of predicting the future clinical phenotype of optic neuritis in patients early on.

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A panel of neurology experts detailed the importance that community leadership and creating a positive environment can do for patients with rare neurologic disorders [WATCH TIME: 5 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 Alzheimer and dementia.

Sanford Siegel, Douglas Kerr, MD; and Benjamin Greenberg, MD, detailed the need for greater research on treatment strategies that repair myelin improve neurodegeneration, as well as expanded knowledge on how neuroimmune disorders present. [WATCH TIME: 5 minutes]

Neurology News Network for the week ending September 16, 2023. [WATCH TIME: 3 minutes]

Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending September 15, 2023.

Benjamin Greenberg, MD; Douglas Kerr, MD; and Sanford Siegel provided perspectives on the gaps in the epidemiology and treatment paradigm for patients with rare neuroimmune disorders. [WATCH TIME: 3 minutes]

In a recent case-control study of 836 human serum samples, including 332 AQP4-IgG–positive and 504 negative samples, the novel immunodot assay showed a 99.4% sensitivity and a 99.2% specificity.

In this small-scale Turkish-based substudy, stopping eciluzumab appeared to be associated with a “rebound” effect with a high risk of relapse in patients with NMOSD.

An expert neurology panel detailed some of the changes in therapeutic strategies and approaches to treating rare neuroimmune disorders, including the steps taken during the acute phase. [WATCH TIME: 6 minutes]