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Sergio Baranzini, PhD, presents his lecture titled, "Genetics Update" as part of the 2020 CMSC Virtual Annual Meeting.

Mark Freedman, MSc, MD, presents the John F. Kurtzke Lecture, titled "Stem Cell Research Update" as part of the 2020 CMSC Virtual Annual Meeting.

Improvements in function may be mediated by an effect of aerobic fitness on deep gray matter brain structures.

An analysis of data from the phase 3 development of cladribine (Mavenclad; EMD Serono) showed that the incidence of treatment-emergent adverse events was low and most were mild in intensity.

Laura Safar, MD, presents her lecture titled, "Use of Psychotropics in MS: Antidepressants, Anti-anxiety Agents, Mood Stabilizers, Hypnotics, Antipsychotics, and Cognitive Enhancers" as part of the 2020 CMSC Virtual Annual Meeting.

Allen Bowling, MD, PhD, presents his lecture titled, "Cannabis and MS: Efficacy, Safety, Drug Interactions, and Research Update" as part of the 2020 CMSC Virtual Annual Meeting.

Benjamin Greenberg, MD, presents his lecture titled, "Emerging Therapies Across the Disease Spectrum" as part of the 2020 CMSC Virtual Annual Meeting.

The chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at Banner-University Medical Center discusses the current state of the science being done in the realm of epilepsy surgery.

A subset group of inebilizumab-treated patients who did not have adjudicated attacks displayed more than a 2-fold increase in serum CSF glial fibrillary acidic protein from baseline, implying GFAP may serve as a biomarker.

Patricia Bobryk, MHS, PT, MSCS, ATP, presents her lecture titled, "Rehabilitation in MS: That Was Then, This Is Now" as part of the 2020 CMSC Virtual Annual Meeting.

Brenda Banwell, MD, presents her lecture titled, "Current Perspectives of Pediatric MS Care and Research" as part of the 2020 CMSC Virtual Annual Meeting.

Data from the overall satralizumab treatment period, which expanded on the double-blind periods by adding new data from the ongoing open-label extension periods, were consistent with the double-blind period results.

Mona Bostick, RDN, LDN, presents her lecture titled, "The Importance of Assessing Nutritional Health in Patients With MS" as part of the 2020 CMSC Virtual Annual Meeting.

Anthony Feinstein, MPhil, PhD, FRCP, presents his lecture titled, "Depression and MS: Diagnosing and Treating" as part of the 2020 CMSC Virtual Annual Meeting.

A real-world survey of more than 300 health care practitioners suggests that the MSProDiscuss tool offers a useful tool for the physician-patient discussion on multiple sclerosis disease progression.

Increases in physical, emotional, and cognitive functioning were more common in patients receiving natalizumab than in patients receiving other disease modifying therapies.

The Novartis agent showed benefit in patients who had multiple sclerosis both with and without relapses.

Patricia Melville, NP-C, MSCN, and Marijean Buhse, PhD, NP-C, MSCN, present their lecture titled, "Comorbidities and MS: Critical Thinking About DMTs and Vaccines" as part of the 2020 CMSC Virtual Annual Meeting.

Amy Sullivan, PsyD, ABPP, presents her lecture titled, "Science, Art, and Practice of Behavioral Medicine" as part of the 2020 CMSC Virtual Annual Meeting.

Brian Weinshenker, MD presents his lecture titled, "Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorders: Emerging Treatment Options" as part of the 2020 CMSC Virtual Annual Meeting.

Patricia Coyle, MD, delivers her lecture titled, "Progressive MS: Diagnosis, Clinical Course and Long-Term Management" as part of the 2020 CMSC Virtual Annual Meeting.

Evobrutinib, a highly selective BTK inhibitor for the treatment of relapsing multiple sclerosis, showed long-term safety and success in reducing annualized relapse rates.

The Genentech agent, which is approved for patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis, showed no new safety signals in a comparison between conventional and shorter infusion times.

Novartis’s anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody has been shown to increase the odds of patients with multiple sclerosis achieving no evidence of disease activity status by more than 3-fold in the first year and more than 8-fold in the second year.

The director of behavioral medicine at the Mellen Center for MS Treatment and Research at Cleveland Clinic detailed the need to incorporate interdisciplinary care and behavioral medicine in commonplace MS practice.

The director of the multiple sclerosis research unit at Ottawa Hospital discussed stem cell therapies being explored in multiple sclerosis, and which patients may be eligible for these treatments.

The study author, director of MedStar Georgetown Headache Center, and associate professor of neurology at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital discussed the findings of a pooled analysis of the ACHIEVE I and II studies of ubrogepant.

The chief of the Division of Neurology at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia spoke to the need for clinical trial evidence and research for the pediatric MS population.