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Results of the large, long-term, population-based study suggest that statin therapy in older adults who experience a concussion may help reduce the deleterious effects of brain injury.

The director of the Jefferson Headache Center at Jefferson University Hospital discussed the need for physicians to revisit how they treat patients with chronic migraine who have developed medication overuse headache.

The National Organization for Rare Disorders is home base for more than 300 member organizations that serve not just patients, but providers who care for those with rare disorders, such as SMA and Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

Neurology News Network for the week ending May 25, 2019.

Zolgensma, an adeno-associated virus vector-based, one-time gene therapy administered via intravenous infusion, is the first and only FDA-approved gene therapy for SMA.

The anti-CGRP agent was shown to decrease monthly migraine days, in addition to having higher ≥50% and ≥75% responder rates, reductions in acute medication use, and enhancements in MSQ RF-R domain scores for patients who failed ≥2 more preventives.

The Director of the Multiple Sclerosis and Hereditary Neuropathy Centers at Seton Hall-Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine shared insight into what clinicians should know about Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease.

The chief medical officer and head of Research & Development at Ovid Therapeutics spoke about what prompted the development of this scale to measure improvement for patients with Fragile X syndrome, and possibly other conditions.

Despite a 40-fold increase in the use of LAAC in a 9-year period, those who had a history of stroke with major bleeds and higher comorbidity were less likely to have LAAC.

Autism diagnostic stability starts early, much MS misdiagnosis and unnecessary medication, CBD reduces seizures in children, and other recent findings are summarized here.

An MDA panel has stated that accessibility of advanced screening, the introduction of effective treatment, and the support of professional organizations could, and should, prompt the expansion of newborn screening.

The research fellow in the Department of Radiology at Mayo Clinic Jacksonville spoke about the reasoning for conducting this study and what the findings mean for physicians in clinical practice.

Patients with drug-resistant seizures should have an epilepsy center evaluation to confirm the diagnosis and determine the epilepsy syndrome and possible candidacy for neurosurgery. Guidelines here.

A patient with worsening atrial fibrillation experiences improvement of his symptoms and heart rate with chiropractic manipulation. More in this podcast.

This is the second aneurysm adjunctive stent to be granted premarket approval for treatment of wide-neck, intracranial aneurysms in conjunction with embolic detachable coils.

The automated system detected epileptic seizures and psychogenic non‐epileptic seizures with a sensitivity of 72.7% and specificity of 100%. The positive and negative predictive values for PNES classification were 81.3% and 100%, respectively.

The recommendations translate important scientific knowledge and innovations in clinical care into improvements in patient outcomes.

Nayzilam is now the first and only FDA-approved nasal option for treating seizure clusters.

The director of the Pediatric Stroke Program at CHOP discussed the findings of a single-center study exploring the incidence of children presenting with acute arterial ischemic stroke who may have been eligible for mechanical thrombectomy.

Neurology News Network for the week ending May 18, 2019.

The associate professor of neurology at Mayo Clinic spoke about the findings of a population-based cohort study seeking to investigate the incidence of levodopa-induced dyskinesia in atypical parkinsonism.

The investigators suggested that this may be indicative of intrathecal IgG synthesis as a useful marker of disability worsening in patients with MS, as well as in making early treatment decisions.

Ultimately, the risk of peripheral neuropathy increased by an estimated 3% for each additional day of current fluoroquinolone exposure, maintained for up to 180 days post-exposure.

Insights about where stem cell treatment of neurological diseases is headed.

New early-stage data suggest that vector‐mediated gene silencing of striatal CaV1.3 expression may hold promise for preventing the induction of levodopa-induced dyskinesias in Parkinson disease.

The director of the Pediatric Stroke Program at CHOP spoke about the need to improve early recognition and assessments in pediatric stroke, and how ultimately, awareness of the condition is a huge step toward achieving this goal.

Compared to sham stimulation, the REN device was more effective in achieving pain relief and relief from the most bothersome symptom at 2 hours posttreatment and was maintained at 48 hours post-stimulation.

NfL levels were reduced during treatment with fingolimod, providing further evidence of the long-term benefit of the drug and demonstrating a greater impact of highly effective therapy in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis.