Treatment Options for Spasticity

Alit Stark-Inbar, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer of Theranica, writes about migraine prevention beyond lifestyle changes, highlighting the role of neuromodulation and other evidence-based treatments in long-term management.

A new study reported that tremor and myoclonus affected nearly 7 in 10 patients with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, with immunotherapy and beta-blockers showing potential benefit for symptom improvement.

Michela Leocadi, PhD, research fellow at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, discussed new longitudinal data showing early functional connectivity changes in HD gene carriers years before clinical motor diagnosis.

In a phase 4 randomized controlled trial, opicapone failed to demonstrate statistical superiority over placebo for reducing fluctuation-related pain in patients living with Parkinson disease.

Robert Bowser, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer at Barrow Neurological Institute, recaps his ALS Nexus presentation on TDP-43 biology, the emerging therapeutic landscape, and how cryptic peptide biomarkers could reshape ALS clinical trial design.

KuangHua Guo, MD, PhD, sleep specialist at Northwestern Medicine, discussed emerging orexin agonist therapies and refined diagnostic approaches for hypersomnia.

Microstructure Imaging has announced that the FDA cleared its MICSI-PET, an MR-guided PET enhancement platform with automated amyloid Centiloid and tau quantification.

Subgroup analyses from the phase 2 ADDRESS-LC trial showed bezisterim significantly improved fatigue, malaise, and cognition in long COVID patients with more severe baseline symptoms.