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NeurologyLive® Brain Games: November 10, 2024

Author(s)Marco Meglio
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  • NeurologyLive Brain Games offers weekly quizzes on diverse neurology topics, crafted by field experts.
  • The quizzes cover dementia, epilepsy, headaches, movement disorders, multiple sclerosis, and more.
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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 on PIRA (progression independent of relapse activity) in multiple sclerosis.

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 include the theme of PIRA (progression independent of relapse activity) in multiple sclerosis.

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 mechanism primarily drives progression independent of relapse activity (PIRA) in multiple sclerosis?


What clinical feature is most indicative of PIRA in MS?


In managing PIRA, which class of medications has shown potential benefits in slowing neurodegeneration?


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