MS and Demyelinating Disorders

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 stroke and cerebrovascular disease.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending April 14, 2023.

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 immunology fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital discussed the current state of care for patients with MOGAD, and whether treatment decisions differ based on timing of attacks. [WATCH TIME: 7 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 multiple sclerosis (MS).

Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending April 7, 2023.

The National Multiple Sclerosis Society’s CME program follows Project ECHO’s evidence-based telementoring model and establishes a peer-to-peer knowledge sharing network.

Michael Levy, MD, PhD, associate professor at Harvard Medical School, spoke about the breakthrough of drugs for NMOSD and the challenges patients face to receive treatment.

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.

The neuroophtalmologist at Mayo Clinic detailed improvements in prescribing methods for NMOSD treatments and the conversations surrounding reversing neurodegeneration. [WATCH TIME: 3 minutes]

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.

Ahmed Zayed Obeidat MD, PhD, and Mark S. Freedman, HBSc, MSc, MD, CSPQ, FAAN, FRCPC, discuss the use of oral cladribine in the treatment of MS.

Experts in neurology present long-term efficacy and safety data of oral DMTs in the treatment of MS and share their perspective on the real-world significance.

The chair of the Department of Neurology at Cedars Sinai Medical Center discussed the prominent topics of research in multiple sclerosis and the need to learn more about age and sex. [WATCH TIME: 5 minutes]

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

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

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 Parkinson disease (PD).

Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending March 31, 2023.

The neuroophthalmologist at Mayo Clinic discussed the current understanding of optic neuritis in neuromyelitis optica and the ways clinicians are working to improve recovery. [WATCH TIME: 4 minutes]

Foralumab, a fully human anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody, has had treatment effect demonstrated in patients with COVID-19 and with multiple sclerosis, as well as in healthy normal individuals.

Michael Levy, MD, PhD, associate professor at Harvard Medical School, talked about the differences between multiple sclerosis and neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder, the currently available treatments, and next steps in research.

Disease activity, severity, or effect of treatment in patients with NMOSD may be predicted by aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase-interacting multifunctional protein-1.