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NeurologyLive® Brain Games: August 9, 2026

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  • Brain Games releases weekly, Sunday-morning neurology quizzes featuring three questions authored by physicians and other experts across clinical care and advocacy.
  • Content coverage spans major neurology subspecialties, from dementia and epilepsy to migraine, movement disorders, MS, neuromuscular and sleep medicine, and stroke.
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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 Spinal Muscular Atrophy!

Welcome to NeurologyLive® Brain Games! This weekly quiz series, which goes live every Sunday morning, will feature questions on a variety of clinical and historical neurology topics, written by physicians, clinicians, and experts in the fields of neurological care and advocacy.

Test your mettle each week with 3 questions that cover a variety of aspects in the field of neurology, with a focus on dementia and Alzheimer disease, epilepsy and seizure disorders, headache and migraine, movement disorders, multiple sclerosis, neuromuscular disorders, sleep disorders, and stroke and cerebrovascular disease.

This week's questions includes the theme of spinal muscular atrophy!

Click here to check out the prior iterations of Brain Games.

Interested in submitting quiz questions? Contact our editor, Marco Meglio, via email: [email protected].

Which genetic abnormality is most directly responsible for the majority of cases of 5q spinal muscular atrophy?


Nusinersen exerts its therapeutic effect in spinal muscular atrophy primarily by:


Which statement best describes the mechanism of action of risdiplam?


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