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Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive's highlights from the week ending October 8, 2021.

Following the publication of a recent article outlining the association of the use of anesthesia during surgery and cognitive decline in older adults, the assistant professor of anesthesiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, spoke on the need to assess risk factors. [WATCH TIME: 5 minutes]

Patients treated in the 10- and 20-mg once daily groups showed statistically significant improvements in UPDRS parts II, III, IV, and in total MDS-UPDRS scores compared with baseline.

The registered dietician at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago provided insight on the importance of educating youths with epilepsy on diets, especially in the transition stages of care. [WATCH TIME: 2 minutes]

"Mind Moments," a podcast from NeurologyLive, brings you an exclusive interview with Gregory W. Albers, MD.

The organization called attention to unintended harms of the current Medicare benefit structure and the need for the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services to be more “patient-focused” in its assessments.

Investigators suggest recognition of predictors can aid in directing future clinical trials, as well as inform early therapeutic decisions in this patient population.

The assistant professor of anesthesiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California–Los Angeles, discussed a recently published article that outlined an association between anesthesia during surgery and cognitive issues. [WATCH TIME: 4 minutes]

Evanthia Bernitsas, MD, neurologist, Wayne State University, discussed a recently conducted analysis, which confirmed inebilizumab’s ability to treat African Americans with NMOSD.

The research chair for Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders at University of Cincinnati Health spoke to the current state of treatment for Parkinson disease. [WATCH TIME: 2 minutes]

None of the associations between blood pressure and outcomes were modified by successful reperfusion at the end of the endovascular treatment procedure.

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

Monthly focal seizure frequency was reduced from baseline at all 3 dose levels of the differentiated Kv7 potassium channel modulator, compared to placebo.

The assistant professor in the division of pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine at the University of Washington discussed patients’ response to the use of telehealth when treating sleep disorders. [WATCH TIME: 2 minutes]

Most attacks occurred within the first year of inebilizumab treatment, and nearly all participants were attack free in subsequent years following treatment initiation.

The director of the Women’s Alzheimer’s Movement Prevention Center at Cleveland Clinic discussed the role genetics play in Alzheimer disease and the importance for all-women trials. [WATCH TIME: 2 minutes]

The expert medical director at Roche provided context on recently published data, which showed prasinezumab’s positive impact in delaying motor progression in patients with Parkinson disease.

Data from 31,052 patients on the German Multiple Sclerosis Register were analyzed in the case-control study.

In the largest prospective study evaluating the Penumbra system, 87.4% of patients achieved postprocedure modified Thrombolysis in Cerebral Infarction scores between 2b to 3.

The neurologist at Wayne State University School of Medicine discussed recently published data describing inebilizumab’s role in producing rapid and sustained B-cell depletion in African Americans with NMOSD [WATCH TIME: 4 minutes]

Application follows the results of 2 independent, identical phase 3 trials, ULTIMATE 1 and 2, which assessed the TG Therapeutics anti-CD20 antibody in more than 1000 patients.

The registered dietician at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago discussed whether epilepsy type factors into the decision to use a given dietary approach. [WATCH TIME 2 minutes]

Investigators observed a high prevalence of cerebral microbleeds, cortical superficial siderosis, and history of intracerebral hemorrhage, all well-established surrogate markers of cerebral amyloid angiopathy severity.

Children with AADC receiving treatment developed motor function and cognitive skills that persisted through up to 10 years of follow-up.

During the double-blind treatment phase, rates of hypertension AEs were low for the placebo and erenumab 70- and 140-mg treatment groups, as well as during open-label erenumab treatment.

The registered dietician at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago provided commentary on the multidisciplinary efforts to tailor a patient’s diet. [WATCH TIME: 3 minutes]

Differences in response to treatment with levetiracetam (Keppra; UCB Pharma) among individuals with and without epileptiform activity who have Alzheimer disease warrant future investigations of other antiseizure medications in this population, according to study authors.

Following a study of patient experiences with telehealth in sleep medicine, the assistant professor in the division of pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine at the University of Washington shed light on the positive and negative aspects of its integration. [WATCH TIME: 4 minutes]

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