Sleep Disorders

AI could revolutionize patient advocacy by bridging communication gaps between patients and providers, and the synergy of medicine and AI offers a promising avenue for enhanced patient care and operational efficiency.

L. John Greenfield Jr, MD, PhD, “spoke” about the future of artificial intelligence in neurology with ChatGPT-4—one of the largest language modules that have grabbed the field’s interest.

There should be a holistic approach to how the systems in place affect equity: how medicine is practiced and research is conducted, the structure of academic institutions, and how media influence our perceptions of neurologic conditions.

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Presented at the 2023 World Sleep Congress, preclinical findings highlighted ORX750's potential as a novel treatment not only for narcolepsy type 1 but also for broader sleep-wake disorders, including narcolepsy type 2 and idiopathic hypersomnia.

A recent study assessing TAK-861, an orexin-type 2 receptor agonist, high and lose doses of the therapy demonstrated improvements in wakefulness compared with the placebo in healthy adult men.

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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 ataxias.

A group of sleep experts discuss the importance of timely and accurate diagnosis, recent approvals, and available treatment options for managing a chronic disorder and its symptoms.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending October 27, 2023.

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Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending October 20, 2023.

During the open-label treatment period, 83% of patients with idiopathic hypersomnia who completed treatment saw a significant reduction in sleepiness, with an average Epworth Sleepiness Scale change of -9.4 points.

Mark I. Boulos, MD, BSc, FRCP, CSCN, MSc, associate professor of medicine, division of neurology, Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, talked about a comprehensive meta-analysis aimed to determine normal mean sleep latency values to accurately help clinicians with interpreting sleep test results.

Over an 11-week treatment period, patients on pitolisant experienced improvements in secondary outcomes of behavioral symptoms, behavioral disturbances, and hyperphagia.

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Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending October 13, 2023.

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.

The associate professor, department of medicine, division of neurology, Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, talked about the importance of establishing normal values for sleep studies, particularly the multiple sleep latency test, to help with effectively diagnosing sleep disorders. [WATCH TIME: 5 minutes]

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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.

Neurology News Network for the week ending October 7, 2023. [WATCH TIME: 3 minutes]

Michael Grandner, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, discussed Sleep Reset, an app-based, personalized sleep program that uses sleep coaches to help guide patients in the care of their sleep disorders.

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

Elena Koundourakis, PhD, head of orexin franchise development at Takeda, talked about the phase 2 trial investigating TAK-994 in patients with narcolepsy type 1, which showed significant improvements in wakefulness, despite discontinuation because of hepatotoxicity.

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