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The FDA granted Fast Track designation to Acadia Pharmaceuticals’ investigational remlifanserin for hallucinations and delusions associated with Alzheimer disease psychosis.

The cerebrovascular neurosurgeon at University Medical Center New Orleans discussed performing the first THUNDERBOLT stroke thrombectomy in the United States and what computer-assisted vacuum thrombectomy offers over traditional aspiration.

Alexandra Bonner, MD, a pediatric neuromuscular neurologist at Cleveland Clinic, discussed why real-time communication between specialists is the hardest part of multidisciplinary care for patients with spinal muscular atrophy.

Oak Hill Bio announced dosing of the first participant in BEACON, a pivotal phase 3 trial evaluating rugonersen, an antisense oligonucleotide originally developed by Roche, for Angelman syndrome.

Alexandra Bonner, MD, a pediatric neuromuscular neurologist at Cleveland Clinic, discussed which specialties are essential to a spinal muscular atrophy care team and why anticipating future needs has become central to the work.

A recently published case study highlights a 17-year-old patient with Duchenne muscular dystrophy who experienced acute and delayed cardiac toxic effects under delandistrogene moxeparvovec treatment, with tissue analyses showing low-level, heterogeneous microdystrophin expression.

Stacey Tarrant, RD, LDN, discusses how earlier treatment alongside disease-modifying therapies have changed nutritional priorities in spinal muscular atrophy, including the need to optimize growth, strength, function, and body composition.

The new data from ALKIVIA marks the first phase 3 study to show statistically significant, clinically meaningful improvement in immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy, a subtype with no approved therapy.

A phase 3 trial found that solriamfetol significantly improved wakefulness and reduced excessive daytime sleepiness in Chinese patients with obstructive sleep apnea, with a safety profile consistent with prior studies conducted in Western populations.

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A large claims-based cohort study found that two doses of the recombinant zoster vaccine reduced the risk of shingles by 64% to 81% in adults with multiple sclerosis, a population with elevated shingles risk and historically low vaccine uptake.

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 acute ischemic stroke!

A large multicenter study found that APOE genotype and a polygenic Alzheimer risk score together predict up to a 10-year difference in disease onset among people carrying an extra copy of the APP gene, whether through an APP duplication or Down syndrome.

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Experimental small molecule CN045 promoted oligodendrocyte maturation and modest remyelination in preclinical models of multiple sclerosis, supporting further development of the compound as a potential remyelination therapy.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending August 14, 2026.

In the final episode, Yogesh Shah, MD, MPH, FAAFP, details how Alzheimer biomarkers have evolved and why blood-based testing could move the field toward earlier detection, risk reduction, and ultimately prevention.

Clinician author Kevin Chang, PharmD, writes about PACAP as a distinct, druggable migraine pathway independent of CGRP, offering a promising option for patients who don't respond to current therapies.

The FDA approved Tauklarify (florquinitau F 18 injection), a tau PET imaging agent, for identifying tau neurofibrillary tangle pathology in adults being evaluated for Alzheimer disease.

Mitzi Joi Williams, MD, is joined by Charnetta Colton Poole, MD, to discuss the challenges of communication between people living with chronic illness and their care partners, including maintaining autonomy, navigating changing roles, and building collaborative relationships through open communication.

Voyager Therapeutics is advancing 2 tau-targeted Alzheimer disease therapies toward key clinical milestones expected in the fourth quarter of 2026, including tau PET imaging data for VY7523 and first-in-human dosing for VY1706.

The FDA has cleared Quantum BioPharma's investigational new drug application for Lucid-MS, allowing the company to begin a phase 2 trial of the first-in-class demyelination-targeting compound in progressive multiple sclerosis.

Uma Menon, MD, Adult Neurology Residency Program Director at Allina Health Brain and Spine Institute, shares lessons on navigating fellowship, finding the right career path, building expertise, and maintaining balance throughout a career in neurology.

CurePSP and UCSF announced enrollment of the first participant in the PSP Trial Platform, believed to be the first platform trial ever conducted specifically for progressive supranuclear palsy, designed to test multiple investigational drugs simultaneously.

Yogesh Shah, MD, MPH, FAAFP, discusses how earlier identification of Alzheimer pathology with P-tau217 could change the patient journey, from treatment opportunities to long-term planning and dementia risk reduction.

In a recently published phase 3 post hoc analysis, treatment with fenfluramine was associated with early, sustained reductions in fall-related seizures among patients with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome.

Ractigen Therapeutics announced completion of enrollment and first dosing across all cohorts of its phase 2 trial of RAG-17, an investigational siRNA therapy for SOD1-mutated ALS, building on phase 1 data recently published in Nature Medicine.

Senda Ajroud-Driss, MD, director of the ALS Clinic at Northwestern Medicine, discussed why adults with spinal muscular atrophy continue to need multidisciplinary care and where the evidence still falls short.