Parkinson Disease: 5 Updates

Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending October 23, 2026.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending October 16, 2026.

A quick-read roundup of 10 late-breaking abstracts from the 2026 MDS Congress, from phase 3 Parkinson disease readouts to long-term data in Huntington disease and Tourette syndrome, with the key results that matter for practice.

A target trial emulation pooling ACCORD-BP and SPRINT data found calcium channel blocker regimens reduced blood pressure variability without changing cardiovascular outcomes.

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 recent advances in gene therapies.

A secondary analysis of the BRIDGE-TNK trial found tenecteplase before thrombectomy improved functional outcomes in cardioembolic but not atherosclerotic stroke.

At a NeurologyLive and Targeted Oncology Clinical Forum in Houston, Kevin J. Bielamowicz, MD, of Arkansas Children’s Hospital, discussed how incidental diagnosis and limited awareness of systemic therapy continue to delay care for patients with NF1-associated plexiform neurofibromas.

Phase 3 data show the oral BTK inhibitor reduced annualized relapse rate by 35.2% and 31.2% vs teriflunomide, with no liver safety signal or Hy's Law cases.