Americas Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis (ACTRIMS)

The postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University discussed her abstract from ACTRIMS Forum 2021 on the associations of MS diagnosis disclosure and concealment with anxiety and depression.

In assessing patients treated with siponimod, researchers also saw that plasma neurofilament light levels slightly predicted a reduced risk of disease worsening.

The senior investigator at the National Institutes of Neurological Disorders and Stroke discussed 2 treatments currently being evaluated for use in multiple sclerosis.

The assistant professor of neurology at Mayo Clinic detailed the areas of autoimmune encephalitis research that need more attention, as well as the diagnostic potential of autoantibody assays.

The neurologist from the University of Washington Medical Center discussed how the study of natalizumab adverse events came about and the importance of this monitoring period.

The retrospective analysis in patients aged 55 years and older underlines the importance of testing different patient populations.

The PhD candidate at the neuroimmunology laboratory at Memorial University of Newfoundland discussed further research she would like to see conducted with IL-1RA in MS.

The chair of the Department of Neurology and the director of the Neuroscience Research Institute at The Ohio State University discussed the takeaways from his lecture at ACTRIMS Forum 2021.

Researchers found that, in an exploratory analysis of 150 patients, African American patients with MS were most likely to become disabled and lose employment.

The chair of the Department of Neurology and the director of the Neuroscience Research Institute at The Ohio State University also offered his insight on discontinuing treatment in progressive MS.

Ishu Arpan, PhD, senior research associate at Oregon Health & Science University, discussed her team’s investigations into identifying patients with MS at risk of falling.

Patients having a relapse, confirmed disability accumulation, or worsening in fatigue had significant negative impact on each of the work productivity and activity impairment measures.

The neurologist from Massachusetts General Hospital discussed physician rationales behind prescribing DMT use in RIS.

Researchers found that the percentage of telemedicine visits increased from 15% to 72.8% during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Neurology News Network for the week ending March 6, 2021.

The president of the Americas Committee for Treatment and Research in MS discusses his takeaways from this year’s virtual forum.

The assistant professor of neurology at Mayo Clinic discussed his presented talk at ACTRIMS Forum 2021 on autoimmune encephalitis.

Researchers also found that patients with progressive MS had longer disease duration before starting DMTs than those with relapsing MS.

The assistant professor of biostatistics at Washington University in St. Louis discussed what role the COViMS registry can play for the MS community at this stage in the pandemic.

Researchers used single-cell RNA sequencing on adult, pediatric, and infant surgical tissues to study oligodendrocyte types in order to better understand multiple sclerosis.

The fellow of autoimmune neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital discusses the ongoing question about whether the demyelination is an unmasking of disease or consequence of the treatment.

The PhD candidate at the neuroimmunology laboratory at Memorial University of Newfoundland discussed her team’s investigations into the use of IL-1RA as a biomarker for MS disability.

The clinical research coordinator at Massachusetts General Hospital discussed his presentation from ACTRIMS 2021 on electronic pill bottle monitoring to promote MS medication adherence.

The chair of the Department of Neurology and the director of the Neuroscience Research Institute at The Ohio State University discussed his lecture at ACTRIMS Forum 2021.

The assistant professor of neurology at Mayo Clinic provided his thoughts on the next steps in understanding autoimmune encephalitis and the direction that research must pivot to.

The authors expanded upon the notion that nonadherence to oral DMTs is more nuanced than simply missing doses.

The researchers found that interleukin-1 receptor antagonist levels in plasma correlated with neurofilament light levels in cerebrospinal fluid.

Researchers found that 22 of 23 patients with elevated CSF NfL at baseline had normal levels at 2-year follow-up.

The chief medical officer at Clene Nanomedicine discussed the recently presented data on CNM-Au8 from the VISIONARY-MS trial.

The authors noted that future studies evaluating the time course of fatigue in patients with multiple sclerosis are needed.