Neuromuscular

Key opinion leaders offer a concise summary of the clinical characteristics and classifications of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), emphasizing the distinctive features observed in adult patients with SMA.

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

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

Neurology News Network. for the week ending June 9, 2024. [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 stroke and large hemispheric infarction.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending June 7, 2024.

Biogen's tofersen, an antisense oligonucleotide, remains the first and only marketed therapy to treat patients with SOD1-mutated amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

Glioblastoma, a highly aggressive brain cancer, presents substantial treatment challenges necessitating innovative therapies and interdisciplinary research to improve patient outcomes.

The FDA approval of the increased maximum daily dose for amifampridine offers clinicians and patients greater flexibility in treatment regimens for the management of Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome.

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 amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending May 31, 2024.

Crystal, a patient living with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy and one of the faces of the Shining Through CIDP awareness campaign, discussed the diagnostic challenges associated with the rare disease.

Following the mixed results, NS Pharma is working with the FDA to determine how to proceed with viltolarsen.

As part of our monthly clinician spotlight, NeurologyLive® highlighted neuromuscular disorder expert Merit Cudkowicz, MD, MSc, chair of neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital.

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 Myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody-associated disease (MOGAD).

Ataluren, which was conditionally approved in Europe in 2014, had its real-world use backed by data from the STRIDE registry.

Neurology News Network. for the week ending May 25, 2024. [WATCH TIME: 4 minutes]

The professor and chair of rehabilitation medicine at UT Health San Antonio talked about the newly published guidelines for the assessment and management of spasticity in patients with neurological conditions. [WATCH TIME: 5 minutes]

The double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, which includes 2 dosing regimens of COYA 302, is expected to have topline data reported later this summer.

Dyne aims to pursue expedited approval pathways for DYNE-251, leveraging dystrophin as a surrogate biomarker.

DYNE-101 demonstrated dose-dependent splicing correction, with the 5.4 mg/kg cohort showing a 27% mean correction at 3 months.

The phase 3 REACH trial investigating Fulcrum Therapeutics’ losmapimod in patients with facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy remains on track with topline data anticipated in the fourth quarter of 2024.

Stephanie Richardson, MS, CCC-SLP, an outpatient lead speech-language pathologist at Brooks Rehabilitation, discussed the unique aspects of speech therapy and the pivotal role it plays in helping patients with swallowing and other related functions.