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Neurology News Network for the week of September 15, 2018.

The director of the Comprehensive Multiple Sclerosis Center at Stony Brook Neuroscience Institute spoke about the importance of early treatment and identification of the condition.

The MS expert discussed the field's recent foray into treating progressive forms of the disease and what is in development.

While there isn’t one agent Coyle believes is held above the rest, she noted that the oral therapies have become popular due to ease of administration.

The director of the Corinne Goldsmith Dickinson Center for Multiple Sclerosis at Mount Sinai Medical Center spoke about the relationship between primary care and specialists.

Goadsby spoke about differentiating between the foursome of preventive therapies soon to be available to physicians.

The Saunders Family Professor of Neurology and the director of the Corinne Goldsmith Dickinson Center for Multiple Sclerosis at Mount Sinai Medical Center discussed the need for biomarkers in MS.

How did erenumab's approval by the FDA change the landscape of migraine treatment?

After identifying and reviewing 76 randomized trials, combination therapy with memantine and AChEIs is confirmed to have no additional benefits over monotherapy.

Lutz Frölich, MD, PhD, spoke about the importance of continuing with research in light of negative trials in Alzheimer disease.

Hendrix spoke to the challenges he and colleagues come across, as well as his hope for the promising future.

Selkoe spoke to a number of topics in the Alzheimer space, including the challenges in the field and his excitement for the future.

Lutz Frölich, MD, PhD, discussed the imperativeness of collaboration between stakeholders—clinicians, pharmaceutical companies, researchers—in developing therapies for Alzheimer disease.

The neurosurgeon from Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre spoke about his excitement about where the medical community is at, at this point, in the understanding of Alzheimer disease.

Livingston spoke to a number of topics in the dementia space, including the challenges clinicians face and her hope for the future.

The head of the Department for Geriatric Psychiatry, Central Institute of Mental Health talked about the biggest challenges facing medicine in treating and understanding Alzheimer disease.

DREAMS-START demonstrates that a manual-based psychological treatment for sleep disorders in dementia is feasible and acceptable.

Nabilone significantly improved agitation, neuropsychiatric symptoms, cognition and nutrition in patients with moderate-to-severe Alzheimer disease.

The founder and CEO of T3D Therapeutics, Inc., spoke about T3D’s desire to go against the grain and trend in the therapeutic development for mild to moderate Alzheimer disease.

The head of the Department for Geriatric Psychiatry, Central Institute of Mental Health discussed his thoughts about patients with mild dementia and prodromal Alzheimer disease.

Data back a 4-fold higher dose of crenezumab in the CREAD 1 and CREAD 2 trials than used in phase II.

Hampel looks to the future of the Alzheimer space and sees promise, especially since there’s transfertilization from other advanced science fields in medicine like oncology, diabetes research and rheumatology.

The vice president and head of Alzheimer’s Disease, Dementia, and Movement Disorders in Late Stage Clinical Development at Biogen spoke about the upcoming TANGO II trial in Alzheimer disease.

Davangere P. Devanand, MBBS, MD, discussed the possibility of neurologists prescribing low-dose lithium for patients with Alzheimer and symptoms of agitation.

The Director of the University of Rochester Alzheimer's Disease Care, Research and Education Program discussed the ongoing study, which is exploring s-citalopram in patients with Alzheimer who also have symptoms of agitation.

Study results suggest that agonist stimulation of PPAR delta may be an effective therapeutic strategy to addressing dysfunctional metabolism in Alzheimer disease.

Haeberlein spoke about a number of topics in the Alzheimer space, including the progress that has been made and her excitement for the future.

The phase IIb/III study is scheduled to initiate enrollment of approximately 450 patients, randomized 1:1:1 to 2 different ANAVEX 2-73 doses or placebo.

The professor of psychiatry in neurology at the Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center at Columbia University Medical Center spoke about the possibility of using lithium for agitation in Alzheimer.

Higher doses of gantenerumab, a monoclonal antibody designed to bind to aggregated Aβ and remove beta plaques, will be investigated in phase III trials.