Pouya Ghaemmaghami, PhD: Predicted Gene Expression and the Association with Sleep Macrostructure
February 17th 2019Preliminary results show that the whole genome information can be used to assess the association between predicted gene expression in different parts of the brain and sleep, suggesting where brain genes are expressed matter for variability in sleep.
Joseph Sullivan, MD: Efficacy of ZX008 in Dravet Syndrome
February 12th 2019The director of the Pediatric Epilepsy Center at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital discussed the efficacy profile of ZX008, for which Zogenix recently submitted a new drug application to the FDA for the treatment of Dravet syndrome.
Michael Sperling, MD: The SLATE Trial in Epilepsy
January 29th 2019The Baldwin Keyes Professor of Neurology and director of the Jefferson Comprehensive Epilepsy Center at Thomas Jefferson University spoke about the trial of the Visualase MRI-guided laser ablation system and the unmet needs in epilepsy.
Costantino Iadecola, MD: Cognitive Reserve in Alzheimer Disease
January 23rd 2019The Anne Parrish Titzell Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medicine’s Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute discussed how to make the decision about who will end developing Alzheimer and who will not when amyloid buildup occurs.