Marco Meglio

Those who had used tobacco at any time demonstrated multiple significantly lower whole-brain measures than nonusers, including total cortical surface area, cortical volume, and total intracranial volume.

Results showed significantly smaller bilaterally gray matter volumes in Parkinson disease compared with controls, but no differences in brain-first or body-first subtypes on asymmetric atrophy.

Plasma GFAP was increased in both presymptomatic and symptomatic mutation carriers compared with noncarriers, and in symptomatic compared with presymptomatic carriers.

For patients with MCA M2 occlusions, use of the Zoom Stroke Solution resulted in significant decreases in National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale scores and no reported perforations or other reperfusion–catheter-related complications.

Between the 2 trials, patients showed significantly lower annualized relapse rates and mean number of gadolinium-enhancing lesions when treated with ublituximab relative to teriflunomide.

The transition period between summer and school represents a key time for children and adolescents to focus on sleep, correct poor sleep habits, and set themselves up for long-term success, both academically and physically.

Branaplam, an mRNA splicing modifier, was being evaluated in a cohort of 75 participants with early manifest Huntington disease, using change in mutant huntingtin protein as the primary outcome measure.

Investigators concluded there were no viable candidates for CVD risk phenotyping in sleep clinics because there were no strong links between any individual or type of oximetry pattern and incident cardiovascular disease.

Treatment with remote ischemic conditioning performed twice daily for 2 weeks as an adjunct to guideline-based treatment resulted in higher odds of modified Rankin Scale scores between 0 and 1, and 0 and 2.

In a multiday ascending dose trial, pharmacokinetic analysis indicated a direct linear relationship between drug dosing concentration and blood plasma levels for each of the 5 days of dosing.

The publication’s findings were consistent with previous scientific literature suggestive that Alzheimer disease is a multifactorial disease, where several pathways interlink and cause cognitive impairments.

The Edward F. and Barbara A. Bell Endowed Chair at Cleveland Clinic discussed a new virtual reality tool that quantifies prodromal changes in activities of daily living for Parkinson disease, without incurring issues of sensory fatigue.

The findings suggests that existing migraine preventative medications are commonly prescribed in idiopathic intracranial hypertension, the most common of which were acetazolamide and topiramate.

After adjusting for stroke severity, prestroke physical activity still accounted for a 52% lowered risk for long-term morality following intracerebral hemorrhage and 48% after ischemic stroke.

Although the prevalence of epilepsy among veterans was similar to what has been reported in the literature, those with DRE had a mortality rate higher than the US general population and other veterans.

CXCL2 and CXCL12, known to induce B-cell proliferation and differentiation, were significantly higher in those with acute and remitted cases of NMOSD compared with controls.

Patients who received tirofiban did not differ from placebo in terms of 90-day outcomes, and they showed an increased incidence of symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage.

More than 60% of patients with early-onset dementia with Lewy bodies had a least 3 of the 5 identified factors at first clinic visit, compared with fewer than 20% of those with early-onset Alzheimer disease.

The phase 3 trial will include a double-blind period evaluating the safety and efficacy of cannabidiol (Epidiolex) for 14 weeks, followed by an open-label extension lasting 54 weeks.

Following positive phase 3 findings, a second study featuring more than 300 patients will aim to confirm PXT3003’s effect in patients with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1a.

Mendelian randomization analyses identified a significant association between genetically determined chronic kidney disease and intracerebral hemorrhage risk, supporting a causal association between the 2 conditions.

The correction in Muscle & Nerve resulted in a statistically significant treatment difference of more than 2 points for average change from baseline in ALSFRS-R in the prespecified efficacy subgroup of with a baseline score of at least 35.

The director of the Women’s Alzheimer’s Movement Prevention Center at Cleveland Clinic discussed new research which looked at the differences in functional connectivity for men and women of older age.

In the first report evaluating transcutaneous auricular VNS in patients with Parkinson disease, significant changes were observed in stride length, swing amplitude, gait speed, and gait time.

The Edward F. and Barbara A. Bell Family Endowed Chair at the Cleveland Clinic provided an overview of the Cleveland Clinic Virtual Reality Shopping platform, a virtual reality tool for Parkinson disease. [WATCH TIME: 5 minutes]

After failing to show statistical significance in a cohort of children, teriflunomide, the disease-modifying medication observed in the analysis, had compelling evidence to suggest it was efficacious in that age group following the Bayesian approach to analysis.

Vesna Garovic, MD, PhD, chair of the nephrology division at Mayo Clinic, discussed the appropriate reaction to data suggesting late-life elevated inflammation and neurovascular damage from severe preeclampsia.

When combing all 26 studies irrespective of methods, the lowest age-specific divergence in incidence was seen in 3 Southern European studies, and the most pronounced divergence in North American studies.

When each variable was entered into the first step of hierarchical linear regression analysis, perceived stress explained more than 40% of the variance in depressive symptoms, followed by felt stigma, at about 20%.

People with epilepsy were less involved than controls in activities considered risky, such as driving and doing household chores, which may have suggested reduced social independence and legal limitations for driving.