Marco Meglio

The median time to seizure relapse following antiseizure medication discontinuation was 8 months, although 16.7% of the cohort had relapse occur just 1 month after baseline.

For amyloid positive cognitively unimpaired individuals, the best predicting compositive measure included gender, and changes in ADAS delayed recall, MMSE, SDMT, and Trailmaking Test B.

For most of the individuals assessed, the rate of improvement was modulated by practice frequency, with significantly greater improvement over time in those who practice 3 to 5 days per week than those who completed 1 day of sessions per week.

In previous clinical studies, patients with AADC deficiency treated with the recombinant AAV2-based gene therapy achieved motor milestones, including head control and unassisted sitting.

As previous literature has suggested a link between NAFLD and cognitive dysfunction, new findings showed that the disease was associated with a 38% higher rate of dementia.

Treatment with CNM-Au8 was well-tolerated, with no new safety signals, and decreased the risk of death by 70% compared with placebo on unadjusted Kaplan-Meier analyses.

Findings showed between a 2.4- to 5-fold increased risk of autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability in children with prenatal exposure to valproate, and similar findings for those exposed to topiramate.

As scientific researchers continue to uncover new genetic links to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the rise of gene therapies to treat the neuromuscular disease will remain a development to watch in the coming years.

The vice president of clinical development at Biohaven provided insight on a new phase 3 study assessing a muscle-targeted agent as an adjunct therapy to currently approved spinal muscular atrophy medications.

Over a year treatment period, patients maintained their subscale scores assessing medication effects, energy and fatigue, and cognition, all of which might be expected to be sensitive to a new treatment.

Using rigorous cell-based assays, cerebrospinal fluid GFAP levels were significantly lower in double-seronegative NMOSD than AQP4-positive NMOSD but did not differ between those with MOGAD or other neurological diseases.

The double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized trial will evaluate CT1812, a small molecule therapeutic designed to address the dual assault from α-synuclein and amyloid-ß oligomers in patients with dementia with Lewy bodies.

Previously used to treat conditions such as temporal lobe epilepsy and focal impaired awareness, the FDA approved a new oral suspension of zonisamide, an antiseizure medication on the market for over 2 decades.

Neuropathic pain and constipation coexisted in 43.5% of the survey participants, and approximately one-third of patients with both symptoms reported a possible link between the two.

Between AQP4-IgG-positive and negative patients with NMOSD, there were no significant differences in cognitive performance, despite having similar demographic and clinical characteristics.

Those randomly assigned to cognitive behavioral therapy reported significantly lower aggregate posttreatment mean HIT-6 scores compared with standard care, but the posttreatment effect for cognitive processing therapy vs treatment per usual was modest.

The new phase 2b trial expands on successful phase 2a findings, in which treatment with SCI-110 resulted in a 21% reduction in tics across a cohort of adults with Tourette syndrome.

In a meta-analysis spanning 10 studies of 1300 patients with Alzheimer disease, global cognition, as measured by the Mini-Mental State Examination or ADAS-Cog, was improved using noradrenergic drugs.

The presence of concurrent psychogenic nonepileptic seizures increased the odds of hospitalization for first suicide by 152% compared with epilepsy alone.

In comparison with controls, there were no significant differences in MRI volumes, amyloid-ß or tau accumulation, nor in most longitudinal measures among those with traumatic brain injury and/or PTSD.

In comparison to those with consistently low depressive symptoms, those with consistently high, fluctuating, and increasing depressive trajectories had 18% to 31% higher hazard of developing incident stroke.

The chair of Cleveland Clinic’s Department of Physical Medicine provided commentary on the goals for the newly approved EksoNR robotic exoskeleton in rehabilitative efforts for patients with multiple sclerosis.

Over a 2-year period, apitegromab-treated patients demonstrated sizable and sustained improvements in Hammersmith Functional Motor Scale-Expanded and substantial increases in Revised Upper Limb Module scores.

The risk of developing Alzheimer disease and related dementias decreased gradually with increasing scores in a dose-response manner on a model geared toward identifying healthy lifestyle factors.

Taldefgrobep alfa, a muscle-targeted experimental treatment potentially used in combination with other SMA therapies, will be evaluated in a cohort of 180 patients with SMA, regardless of ambulatory status or disease classification.

On a per-capita basis, a hospital serving a predominately Black, racially segregated community was 26% less likely to adopt stroke certification of any level than a hospital in a predominately non-Black, racially segregated community.

Of the patients with drug-resistant epilepsy in the cohort, 54% had status epilepticus during their acute admission, and 2 of 3 patients with NORSE ended up developing drug-resistant epilepsy at 12 months.

The net clinical benefit with ticagrelor and aspirin over clopidogrel and aspirin treatment may be predominant in the first week, with additional small benefit in the second and third weeks for those with minor ischemic stroke or transient ischemic attack.

Ruth Benca, MD, PhD, a professor and the chair of Psychiatry & Human Behavior at Wake Forest School of Medicine, provided insight on the age- and sex-related differences in sleep disorders, and the needed research on the effects of therapeutics in older populations.

In addition to filing under the accelerated approval pathway, Eisai will submit for a traditional approval of lecenamab before the end of the first quarter of 2023, seeking an indication for mild cognitive impairment because of Alzheimer disease.