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Driving and Epilepsy: Issues to Discuss With Your PatientsBecause automobiles are such an important aspect of our culture, driving restriction is an enormous problem for many of the 65 million individuals with epilepsy worldwide and their families.
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Opioid Analgesics in Migraine: What Are the Alternatives?Because opioids have been shown to increase disability and reduce quality of life in patients with migraine, the search is on for effective alternative treatments.
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Exploring Recurrent Isolated Sleep ParalysisStrategies and take-home points on sleep paralysis and its counterpart, isolated sleep paralysis, a REM sleep-related parasomnia commonly associated with intense fear and anxiety.
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Pediatric Concussion: Current Trends and New FrontiersExperts provide new insights about the challenges of concussion care for pediatric patients, including management, diagnosis, and return to a normal lifestyle.
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Pediatric Concussion: Current Trends and New FrontiersExperts provide new insights about the challenges of concussion care for pediatric patients, including management, diagnosis, and return to a normal lifestyle.
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Letter From the Editor – Fall 2024Nina Riggins, MD, PhD, FAAN, FAHS, UCNS Diplomate, highlighted the essential role of advocacy in advancing neurological care, particularly in improving the transition process for pediatric patients with migraine to adult care.
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Special Populations in Neurology: Pediatric MigraineNeurology Times' podcast with a pediatric headache specialist and neurologist who has performed over 1000 procedures to treat migraine in children and adolescents.
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TBI and Suicide: From Science to Prevention StrategiesConceptualizing risk among patients with traumatic brain injury requires clinicians to consider multiple factors including neuroanatomic and cognitive dysfunction, and psychosocial impairment.
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TBI and Suicide: From Science to Prevention StrategiesConceptualizing risk among patients with traumatic brain injury requires clinicians to consider multiple factors including neuroanatomic and cognitive dysfunction, and psychosocial impairment.
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TBI and Suicide: From Science to Prevention StrategiesConceptualizing risk among patients with traumatic brain injury requires clinicians to consider multiple factors including neuroanatomic and cognitive dysfunction, and psychosocial impairment.
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The Growing Epidemic of TBI in Older PatientsDespite advances in neurology, a silent epidemic of older adults who sustain a TBI is growing. The authors provide tools and tips for a geriatric approach to treatment.
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The Growing Epidemic of TBI in Older PatientsDespite advances in neurology, a silent epidemic of older adults who sustain a TBI is growing. The authors provide tools and tips for a geriatric approach to treatment.
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The Growing Epidemic of TBI in Older PatientsDespite advances in neurology, a silent epidemic of older adults who sustain a TBI is growing. The authors provide tools and tips for a geriatric approach to treatment.
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Complementary and Alternative Therapies for TBI: Key Points for CliniciansThe CAM options described here may help prevent trauma-related neurodegeneration over the long term.
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Effective Treatment of Essential Palatal Tremor and Coexistent Bipolar Disorder: A Case ReportClicking sounds in the patient’s ears were initially thought to be auditory hallucinations, but a thorough neurological examination revealed the true cause.
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Epilepsy Surgery, Part 1: Refractory Seizures and Presurgical EvaluationAt least 30% of patients with epilepsy have seizures that are incompletely controlled by medical therapy; thus, nonpharmacological options are important for comprehensive care.
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AAN Guidelines on Use of fMRI for Presurgical Mapping in EpilepsyPatients with drug-resistant seizures should have an epilepsy center evaluation to confirm the diagnosis and determine the epilepsy syndrome and possible candidacy for neurosurgery. Guidelines here.
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A History of Migraine: Gender RatioAround three times more women than men have migraine. This marked difference in prevalence is one of the most well-known features of the illness. Here's what history tells us.
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Benefits of Martial Arts on Movement DisordersThis podcast discusses preliminary evidence about the effects of karate on quality of life and several measures of gait, balance, and mobility in patients with PD.
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Music Therapy Unites the Arts and Medicine to Help PatientsTwo medical students who are conservatory-trained musicians describe a memorable performance at a center for older adults with dementia.
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Music Therapy Unites the Arts and Medicine to Help PatientsTwo medical students who are conservatory-trained musicians describe a memorable performance at a center for older adults with dementia.
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Phase 2 Trial for Angelman Syndrome UnderwayIn this podcast, Heidi Moawad, MD interviews Cesar Ochoa-Lubinoff, MD, MPH, FAAP, about recent encouraging clinical trial results in patients with Angelman syndrome.
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Genetic Testing for Huntington DiseaseThe profound consequences of the results guide decisions about testing. Who should be tested? And, just as important, who should not?
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Connecting With Neurology Patients Through MusicAn interview with a neurologist who found that merely writing medical articles cannot express the impact an illness can have on patients, both literally and emotionally.
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Developing Targeted Therapeutics in Angelman SyndromeThe genomic revolution has led to increasing opportunities to address complex neurodevelopmental conditions, taking a genetics-first approach.
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New Treatment for Rare Autoimmune DiseaseA new treatment for NMOSD has been found to reduce relapse, decrease re-hospitalizations, and hinder the need to treat acute attacks with corticosteroids and plasma exchange.
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Prion-like Molecular Mechanisms in Alzheimer DiseaseAlthough Alzheimer disease is not infectious by any common definition of the term, research over the past 20 years has confirmed long-standing speculation that the molecular mechanism driving neurodegeneration is fundamentally the same in Alzheimer disease and the prototypical infectious proteopathy-prion disease.
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A Time to Recognize and Enhance Understanding of Migraine Disorders: Jessica Ailani, MDThe director of the MedStar Georgetown Headache Center talked about recognizing the struggles of patients with migraine disorders and the importance of bringing awareness of available treatments to this patient population. [WATCH TIME: 5 minutes]
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FibroGen's Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Antibody Pamrevlumab Falls Short in Phase 3The study did not meet its primary end point of change from baseline in Performance of the Upper Limb 2.0 score at 1 year.
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FDA Rejects Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Drug Golodirsen, Citing Safety ConcernsThe regulatory agency cited 2 concerns in the complete response letter: the risk of infections related to intravenous infusion ports and renal toxicity.
