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The investigational therapy was safe, well-tolerated, and showed promising improvements in cognitive measures among patients with dementia with Lewy bodies.

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Stuart Isaacson, MD, Rajesh Pahwa, MD, and Jennifer Goldman, MD discuss optimizing PD treatment with levodopa and adjunct therapies, addressing patient and pharmacologic challenges, coordinating care, and anticipating the impact of emerging therapies and upcoming Medicare Part D changes.

Optimizing Parkinson's disease (PD) treatment involves leveraging levodopa and adjunct therapies to address both patient-specific and pharmacologic challenges. Effective management requires coordinated care among healthcare providers to ensure comprehensive treatment strategies. Anticipating the impact of emerging therapies and upcoming changes in Medicare Part D is crucial for adapting treatment plans. These changes may influence drug accessibility and affordability, necessitating proactive adjustments in therapeutic approaches. Understanding these dynamics is essential for improving patient outcomes and maintaining the efficacy of PD management strategies.

Stuart Isaacson, MD, Rajesh Pahwa, MD, and Jennifer Goldman, MD discuss optimizing PD treatment with levodopa and adjunct therapies, addressing patient and pharmacologic challenges, coordinating care, and anticipating the impact of emerging therapies and upcoming Medicare Part D changes.

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 features Dr. Anne Marie Morse, DO, a neurologist with special qualifications in child neurology and a sleep medicine specialist, best known for putting the DAMM in 

 and for always looking for digestible, actionable patient-directed sleep tips, tricks and tools to achieve optimal outcomes. Dr. Morse has joined forces with Brandon Hedgecock, DDS, D-ABDSM, a dentist and founder of Hedgecock Dental and 

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Drs Isaacson, Pahwa, and Gupta discuss the management of dyskinesia and providing good ON time in Parkinson’s disease, sharing practical tips for early identification and treatment of dyskinesia, as well as their experience with current treatments.

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The Mind Moments podcast features exclusive interviews with leaders in the field discussing the latest research and disease management strategies across the breadth of neurology, including epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson disease, dementia, sleep disorders, and more.

Episode 93, "Caring for Women With Parkinson Disease," features an exclusive interview with 

, an assistant professor of neurology and director of the Parkinson’s Disease & Movement Disorder Program at Global Neurosciences Institute, who spoke with us about the current landscape of care for women with Parkinson disease (PD), how the approach to their care can differ from men, the major gaps around education and treatment for these women, and much more.

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Medicare Expands Coverage for Fully Approved Alzheimer Agent Lecanemab

FDA Approves Image Guided Programming Software for Vercise Deep Brain Stimulation Systems

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 – OFF episodes and dyskinesia in women vs men

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 – The daily impact of Parkinson disease

 – Encouraging women with Parkinson to participate in trials

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Episode 81, "Widening the Therapeutic Window in Parkinson Disease," features an exclusive interview with Robert A. Hauser, MD, MBA, director of the Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders Center at the University of South Florida. He spoke about the current state of therapeutics in Parkinson disease, some of the lingering challenges in day-to-day management, the promise of novel agents in development such as IPX203, and more.

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Although the primary goal was not met, prasinezumab demonstrated encouraging effects on secondary and exploratory measures, such as time to worsening motor function, Clinical Global Impression of Change, MDS-UPDRS motor scores.

Parkinson Agent Prasinezumab Misses Primary End Point But Shows Positive Effects in Other Outcomes

AbbVie recently announced that it is on track to submit the new drug application for its investigational Parkinson disease agent tavapadon to the FDA in 2025.

Tavapadon Meets Primary and Secondary End Points in Phase 3 TEMPO-2 Trial for Early Parkinson Disease

BIIB122 is a selective, central nervous system-penetrant small molecule that could potentially improve lysosomal dysfunction among patients with LRRK2-associated Parkinson disease. 

First Patient Treated in Phase 2a Trial of Investigational BIIB122 for LRRK2-Associated Parkinson Disease

The Association of Movement Disorder Advanced Practice Providers has launched its Certification of Movement & Related Disorder Specialist (CMRD) for advanced practice providers.

AMDAPP Launches Certification for Advanced Practice Providers in Movement Disorders

To date, BT-267 shows strong potential as a best-in-class LRRK2 inhibitor for Parkinson disease, with a superior safety profile, excellent pharmacokinetics, and innovative development leveraging advanced technologies and biomarker modeling.

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 (NCT04994483) showed that treatment with investigational simufilam (Cassava Sciences), a small molecule agent targeting an altered form of filamen A (FLNA), did not meet each of its pre-specified co-primary, secondary, and exploratory biomarker end points in patients with mild-to-moderate Alzheimer disease (AD). As a result of these findings, the company has decided to discontinue its second phase 3 study of simufilam, ReFocus-ALZ (NCT05026177). ReThink-ALZ was a double-blinded study that randomly assigned 804 patients with confirmed mild or moderate AD to either simufilam 100 mg (n = 403) or a matched placebo (n = 401), dosed orally twice daily (BID) for 52 weeks. After 52 weeks of treatment, simufilam failed to distinguish itself from placebo on the primary end points of Alzheimer’s Disease Assessment Scale-Cognitive Subscale 12 and Alzheimer’s Disease Cooperative Study-Activities of Daily Living.

2024 International Congress of Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders (MDS)

, held September 27-October 1, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, investigators presented an outline of a 

 evaluating the therapeutic potential of lamotrigine (Lamictal), an FDA-approved antiseizure medication, in patients with dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). The study, which will enroll 60 patients aged 60 years and older from a hospital in Seoul, Korea, is estimated to be completed in early 2025.In the study, eligible participants will be randomly assigned 1:1 to either standard of care (rivastigmine) plus either oral lamotrigine or matching placebo for a 20-week treatment period. The trial will use change in Clinical Dementia Rating-Sum of Boxes (CDR-SB) as the primary end point, with additional secondary end points that included Mini Mental State Examination, CDR, Caregiver Administered-Neuropsychiatric Inventory, Mayo Fluctuation Scale, and Timed up and Go test, among others.

Recently published data using electronic health records for more than 3 million US veterans revealed that 

hearing loss was an independent risk factor

 for later development of Parkinson disease (PD), even after adjusting for competing risk of death, age, head trauma, frailty, and established prodromal disorders. Investigators concluded that hearing screening and hearing intervention are low-cost, low-risk measures that may influence the later development of synucleinopathy and could be the most important modifiable risk factor for both dementia in midlife and PD.Published in 

, the analysis included electronic health record data from the US Department of Veterans Affairs for veterans who had an audiogram (n = 3,596,365) from January 1999 to December 2022. Of those included, 20.8% (n = 750,010) had normal hearing (<20 dB) at the time of audiometry examination.

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