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The child neurologist at the University of Colorado School of Medicine talked about her presentation on end of life care for patients with neuromuscular diseases at the 2023 MDA conference. [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 the history of the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA).

Over a 12-week treatment period, patients with Parkinson disease on light therapy demonstrated statistically significant improvements of 58% and 40% in lower and upper limb coordination and movement.

As a recap from MDA 2023, get caught up on some of the latest news in neuromuscular diseases as the NeurologyLive® team shares some of our data updates.

Neurology News Network for the week ending March 25, 2023. [WATCH TIME: 3 minutes]

At the 2023 MDA Conference, a neurology nurse practitioner in the Neuromuscular Division at Washington University in St. Louis talked about adverse event management of gene therapies in Duchenne muscular dystrophy. [WATCH TIME: 2 minutes]

Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending March 24, 2023.

At the 2023 MDA Conference, the executive vice president and chief research officer of MDA talked about a new program from the MDA to tackle ultra-rare neuromuscular diseases. [WATCH TIME: 5 minutes]

Results of solriamfetol were similar when outcomes were examined in subgroups of concomitant antidepressant use, regardless of depression history, indicating that antidepressants did not affect the efficacy of the drug.

The vice president of Health Economic and Outcomes Research at Acadia Pharmaceuticals provided perspective on the negative effects seen from quetiapine and how the knowledge of pimavanserin has improved since approval. [WATCH TIME: 5 minutes]

Mind Moments®, a podcast from NeurologyLive®, brings you an exclusive interview with Eric Zhou. [LISTEN TIME: 14 minutes]

Durability of treatment response on reachable workspace was observed among those who continued losmapimod throughout the 96-week period and those who switched from placebo.

The associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine talked at the 2023 MDA Conference about how digestive health impacts patients with Duchene Muscular Dystrophy. [WATCH TIME: 4 minutes]

In participants who received placebo during the parent studies, rapid improvements were observed as early as week 1 after switching to zilucoplan, and continued through week 12 of the extension period.

The palliative care physician and assistant professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center discussed the types of resources clinicians can pull from to expand neuropalliative care for patients with neuromuscular disorders. [WATCH TIME: 3 minutes]

The 12-person Dephi panel reviewed data from 3 clinical trials of delandistrogene maxeparvovec (SRP-9001; Sarepta), and developed considerations for the management of vomiting, myocarditis, acute liver injury, and immune-mediated myositis.

The committee all agreed that tofersen presents a favorable risk-benefit profile in this particularly challenging patient population.

After results indicated significant slowing of ALS disease progression, Coya noted it plans to file an IND with the FDA in the second half of 2023 for a potential clinical study thereafter.

If approved, ABBV-951 will become the first subcutaneous delivery of carbidopa/levodopa, often considered the standard of care for symptom management for patients with Parkinson disease.

The professor of neurology and pediatrics at University of Rochester Medical Center shared her thoughts on the 2023 MDA Clinical and Scientific Conference, and the progress made in the treatment of neuromuscular disorders.

The palliative care physician and assistant professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center provided perspective on current state of end-of-life care for neuromuscular disorders and areas to improve upon. [WATCH TIME: 4 minutes]

The chief medical officer at ML Bio Solutions spoke about the advances in neuromuscular diseases such as limb girdle muscular dystrophy at the 2023 MDA Conference. [WATCH TIME: 3 minutes]

Efgartigimod-treated patients consistently outperformed placebo regardless of concomitant medication, thymectomy status, and timing of diagnosis.

The vice president of Health Economic and Outcomes Research at Acadia Pharmaceuticals discussed the ongoing challenges with lowering mortality in Parkinson disease, and the need to improve caregiver burden. [WATCH TIME: 4 minutes]

After previously showing positive effects on MG-ADL and QMG, ravulizumab continued to show improvements in ocular and respiratory muscle domains in myasthenia gravis.

The director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation Research at the FDA provided an overview of the Keynote Address he gave at the 2023 Muscular Dystrophy Association Clinical and Scientific Conference. [WATCH TIME: 3 minutes]

In a phase 3 study, tofersen failed to meet its primary end point of functional change, but did meet its target engagement of SOD1 protein and reductions in neurofilament light.

More than 90% of patients, ambulatory and non-ambulatory, experienced improvements in Medical Research Council score within 6 months of treatment.

Differences in baseline characteristics and eligible criteria in presymptomatic infants with spinal muscular atrophy led to differential results on motor and nonmotor clinical outcomes.

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