Episode 152: Building Safer, Smarter, and More Personalized Epilepsy Care

Episode 152 of the NeurologyLive^® Mind Moments^® podcast is now live! Scroll down to listen or click here to subscribe on your favorite streaming service.

The Mind Moments podcast features exclusive interviews with leaders in the field discussing the latest research and disease management strategies across the breadth of neurology, including epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson disease, dementia, sleep disorders, and more.

In this episode, "Building Safer, Smarter, and More Personalized Epilepsy Care," Orrin Devinsky, MD, discusses major areas of progress and ongoing challenges in epilepsy care. Devinsky, a professor in the departments of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, reflects on how the treatment landscape has evolved in recent years, including advances in medication, awareness of SUDEP, and patient counseling. Devinsky also weighs in on the current treatment hierarchy for antiepileptic drugs and whether first-line therapeutic strategies should change. Additional discussion touches on the state of gene therapy development, the need for greater research in disease prevention, the implications of GLP/GIP agents in neurological care, and how neurodevelopmental management is advancing for pediatric patients with epilepsy.

The stories featured in this week's Neurology News Minute, which will give you quick updates on the following developments in neurology, are further detailed here:

• CHMP Issues Favorable Opinion for FcRn Blocker Nipocalimab as Myasthenia Gravis Treatment
• FDA Delays Review Deadline for Hunter Syndrome Agent Tividenofusp Alfa
• FDA Clears Roche’s Elecsys pTau181 Test for Ruling Out Alzheimer-Related related Amyloid Pathology

EPISODE BREAKDOWN

• 0:55 – How epilepsy care has evolved and where progress has been made
• 5:30 – Whether first-line therapy choices for epilepsy should be re-evaluated
• 8:35 – Why gene therapy progress has been slower than expected in epilepsy
• 12:05 – Neurology News Minute
• 14:10 – What areas of epilepsy research deserve greater attention and funding
• 17:10 – How GLP/GIP agents could intersect with neurological and epilepsy care
• 20:00 – How clinicians can better address neurodevelopmental challenges in patients with epilepsy

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