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Following their data presentation on AMX0035 at AAN 2022, Justin Klee and Josh Cohen, the co-CEOs and co-founders of Amylyx Pharmaceuticals, shared their perspectives on the agent.

A recent study showed that use of STIMVIEW XT helped adjust patient stimulation by an average of 20 minutes, lowering the programming time by 56%.

The investigational agent was well-tolerated, with no new safety signals and no indication of worsening of supine hypertension based on 24-hour monitoring.

Adverse events were balanced across treatment and placebo groups, with no observed treatment-associated elevations in cerebrospinal fluid white blood cell counts or protein.

In addition to significantly less disability observed in tenecteplase-treated patients, this group was also administered treatment 9.40 minutes faster than those on alteplase.

Shephard Mpofu, MD, the senior vice president and chief medical officer at Novartis Gene Therapies, offered his perspective on the latest phase 3 data of onasemnogene abeparvovec (Zolgensma) in SMA treatment.

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Robert K. Shin, MD, offered his perspective on the novel therapies being developed for multiple sclerosis, highlighting the potential of Bruton tyrosine kinase inhibitors for progressive disease.

The mean bodyweight-normalized infant rimegepant dose was 0.0005 mg/kg/day, and the mean estimated relative infant dose was 0.51%, therefore indicating the study drug results in less than 1% relative infant dose in human milk.

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Data presented at the 2022 AAN Annual Meeting from the ALITHIOS and KYRIOS trials suggest that ofatumumab (Kesimpta; Novartis), an anti-CD20 therapy, is safe with up to 4 years of treatment and does not prevent the mounting of an immune response to mRNA vaccines.

After showing several significant differences between placebo, the company has planned a phase 3 study that will assess the therapeutic in a cohort of 230 adults with FSHD.

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Among triptan non/past use and current use patients, investigators observed refill decreases of 15.3% and 16.8%, respectively, in the 9 months following rimegepant treatment.

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Ludwig Kappos, MD, FEAN, FAAN, provided insight on a new analysis that showed greater proportions of patients achieving no evidence of disease activity on ozanimod compared with interferon ß-1a.

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The pediatric neurologist and epilepsy specialist at Colorado Children’s Hospital discussed new data presented at AAN 2022 on the use of recently approved fenfluramine in patients with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome. [WATCH TIME: 3 minutes]

As a result of treatment with the Vercise Genus DBS system, patients reduced their use of anti-parkinsonian medications while maintaining improvements in quality of life.

Following the switch to ubrogepant, more than half of patients with migraine had reduced use of triptans and more than one-third of patients had reduced use of anti-inflammatory drugs.

The clinical research director of the UCSF Multiple Sclerosis Center offer his perspective on the 3 available agents for the treatment of patients with neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder. [WATCH TIME: 2 minutes]

Dejan Jakimovski, MD, PhD, research assistant professor, Buffalo Neuroimaging Analysis Center, discussed his presentation at AAN 2022 on the associations between cerebral hypoperfusion and increased axonal pathology in MS.

The assistant professor of neurology at the University of Pennsylvania discussed the similarities observed between the results of neurological exams in patients with COVID-19 vs other respiratory infections. [WATCH TIME: 3 minutes]

Seth M. Keller, MD, chair of the Section for Adults With IDDs at AAN, shared his perspective on the state of care for these individuals and the need to improve the difficulties they face when transitioning out of pediatric care.

The medical director and chief medical officer of the New England Center for Neurology and Headache spoke to the phase 2 STEMTRA trial results of the stem cell treatment SB623. [WATCH TIME: 4 minutes]

All patients received 100% of the intended stimulations, with no reported deaths, stimulation site reactions, or any cases of acute coronary syndrome or symptomatic intracerebral hemorrhage.

Among those who took their second nighttime sodium oxybate dose 4 hours after their first, 42% claimed they felt somewhat, quite a bit, or extremely groggy or unsteady the next morning.