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The WHO guidelines specifically promote a healthy lifestyle, including regular exercise, not smoking, avoiding the harmful use of alcohol, maintaining a healthy weight and diet, and keeping healthy levels of blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood sugar.

The staff neurologist at Cleveland Clinic shared his insight from the study, as well as what these data can do to further inform the use of this biomarker in progressive MS trials.

How are you counseling patients and families about the risks and benefits of playing sports with repetitive head blows and the risk of CTE?

The lead investigator noted that “the study results are a promising step toward having a scientifically-validated tool for clinical use that can facilitate physician-patient conversations and ultimately help to get ahead of MS progression.”

The International Project Team Lead spoke about the results of study endpoints that assessed the potential for next-morning residual effects of lemborexant, which is in development for insomnia.

Evobrutinib is the first BTK inhibitor to demonstrate clinical proof of concept in multiple sclerosis, reducing Gd+ lesions in a 75-mg, once-daily dose.

The FDA has expanded the indication for incobotulinumtoxinA, making it a first-line treatment for blepharospasm.

Advances in the diagnosis and management of SMA include molecular genetic testing and the FDA approval of a disease-modifying therapy.

Suvorexant improved the mean total sleep time by 28.2 minutes for the patients receiving the treatment versus placebo, equating to a mean increase of 73.4 minutes with the orexin receptor antagonist.

The amifampridine tablets are the first approved therapy specifically indicated for the treatment of pediatric patients with LEMS, a rare autoimmune disorder with neuromuscular symptoms caused by affected nerve connections and muscle weakness.

The chief medical officer of Neurocrine Biosciences spoke about how long-term data on valbenazine (Ingrezza) has helped shape the understanding of the effect tardive dyskinesia can have on patients, and how it can inform better utilization of the medication.

The assistant professor of neurology at Mount Sinai Health System spoke about the recent trend toward approaching migraine in a more holistic fashion, and the incorporation of nonpharmacologic options for patients with the chronic headache condition.

Patients across all dosing groups saw statistically significant and clinically relevant reductions in migraine days during the 12-week treatment period compared with the placebo group.

Enough evidence to support further evaluation in a phase 3 trial in myasthenia gravis has been collected from these new phase 2 data of zilucoplan, formerly known as RA101495 SC.

The director of Translational Research and Epilepsy Clinical Trials at NYU Langone spoke about the nuance involved in diagnosing epilepsy and the misconceptions about how seizures present in the majority of patients.

Compared to interferon beta-1a, the reduction of grey matter volume loss was greater in those treated with both doses of the oral S1P receptor modulator across all age groups, including the youngest patients at the highest risk for brain volume loss.

The director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Mount Sinai Health System spoke about the results of the phase 2 study of OV101 (gaboxadol), and the next steps for the phase 3 trial.

The investigators observed a dose-dependent reduction of mutant huntingtin concentration in the cerebrospinal fluid of patients who received HTTRX, supporting the launch of a confirmatory phase 3 trial.