MS and Demyelinating Disorders

Drs Ahmed Zayed Obeidat and Mark S. Freedman share considerations for individualized therapy for the management of MS.

Mark S. Freedman, HBSc, MSc, MD, CSPQ, FAAN, FRCPC, provides an overview of disease-modifying therapies for the treatment of multiple sclerosis.

Here's some of what is coming soon to NeurologyLive® this week.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending March 17, 2023.

The director of the Visual Outcomes Laboratory at Cedars Sinai talked about the current treatments used in MS and the risks associated with them at 2023 ACTRIMS Forum. [WATCH TIME: 3 minutes]

Here's the latest multidisciplinary MS research published online first in the International Journal of MS Care.

The neurologist at Mayo Clinic, in Jacksonville, Florida, spoke about inebilizumab as a treatment for NMOSD and other autoimmune diseases, such as encephalitis, in the ExTINGUISH trial. [WATCH TIME: 3 minutes]

In honor of Brain Awareness Week, held March 13, 2023, to March 19, 2023, get caught up on some of the latest news in neurology as the NeurologyLive® team shares some of our data updates.

At the 2023 ACTRIMS forum, Omar Al-Louzi, MD, director of the Visual Outcomes Laboratory at Cedars Sinai, talked about investigating the relationship between viral infections and multiple sclerosis using MRIs.

In a recent interview, the associate professor at Harvard Medical School spoke about patient-centered research in the advancing treatment for patients with NMOSD. [WATCH TIME: 5 minutes]

Michael Dwyer, PhD, director of IT and Neuroinformatics Development at the Buffalo Neuroimaging Analysis Center, provided insight on how artificial intelligence techniques may be used to monitor disease progression in multiple sclerosis.

In honor of Brain Awareness Week, a group of experts in the care of patients with neurological conditions—Ronald C. Petersen, MD, PhD; Brian Grosberg, MD, FAHS; James Beck, PhD; Michael Levy, MD, PhD; Stanley H. Appel, MD —shared their perspectives on hot topics of treatment and management in neurology.

The neurologist and physician scientist at Washington University in St. Louis provided perspective on the need for additional studies assessing the long-term effects of dieting strategies in multiple sclerosis. [WATCH TIME: 3 minutes]

At the 2023 ACTRIMS, the post-doctoral associate in the department of clinical neurosciences at the University of Calgary, spoke on the impact of researching T-Bet+ memory B cells for new therapies in multiple sclerosis. [WATCH TIME: 5 minutes]

At the 2023 ACTRIMS Forum, the post-doctoral associate in the department of clinical neurosciences at the University of Calgary talked about the main findings he observed with B cell therapies in patients with MS. [WATCH TIME: 4 minutes]

Here's some of what is coming soon to NeurologyLive® this week.

Omar Al-Louzi, MD, director of the Visual Outcomes Laboratory at Cedars Sinai, provided his clinical perspective on role of imaging and viral infections in patients with MS at the 2023 ACTRIMS forum.

Despite higher baseline scores, Expanded Disability Status Scale scores remained stable over time in Black patients treated with ocrelizumab for multiple sclerosis.

Neurology News Network for the week ending March 11, 2023. [WATCH TIME: 3 minutes]

Take 5 minutes to catch up on NeurologyLive®'s highlights from the week ending March 10, 2023.

The associate professor at Harvard Medical School talked about the currently approved therapies and the state of care for patients with NMOSD from a clinician perspective. [WATCH TIME: 5 minutes]

Expression of CD16 and activation markers in natural killer and natural killer-T cells may be responsible for the escalating autoimmune activity in NMOSD.

A group of experts in the care of patients with multiple sclerosis—Marisa McGinley, DO; Farrah Mateen, MD, PhD; Laura Piccio, MD, PhD; Robert Zivadinov, MD, PhD; and Bruce Cree, MD, PhD, MAS, FAAN—shared their perspectives on hot topics of treatment and management from the 2023 ACTRIMS Forum.

The clinical research director of the UCSF Multiple Sclerosis Center spoke about the barriers in accessing proven therapies for NMOSD at the 2023 ACTRIMS Forum. [WATCH TIME: 3 minutes]

The associate director of the Multiple Sclerosis & Neuromyelitis Optica Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital discussed the ways employers and clinicians can alleviate work hardships experienced by patients with NMOSD. [WATCH TIME: 3 minutes]

The director of IT and Neuroinformatics Development at the Buffalo Neuroimaging Analysis Center provided perspective on the sudden explosion of artificial intelligence, and how it can be applied to MS care.

Rajiv Jain, PhD, post-doctoral associate, department of clinical neurosciences, University of Calgary, talked about his presentation on T-bet+ memory B-cells in multiple sclerosis at the 2023 ACTRIMS Forum.

The clinical assistant professor of neurology at Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, New York, talked about her presentation on Evusheld at the 2023 ACTRIMS Forum. [WATCH TIME: 5 minutes]

The effect of cognitive rehabilitation on personalized cognitive goals was specifically found 6 months after treatment completion, whereas the benefits on patient-reported cognitive complains did not persist.

Taylor Gonyou, DO, a multiple sclerosis fellow at Michigan Institute for Neurologic Disorders, detailed a proteomic biomarker panel that gauges multiple sclerosis disease activity, with potential to impact clinical decision-making.