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Amanda Hare, DNP, a doctor of nursing practice specialized in movement disorders, gave comments on the innovation behind the StrivePD app and how it can revolutionize personalized treatment management for patients with Parkinson disease.

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The multicenter, 24-week study will feature 20 patients with MG, testing changes on MG-ADL as well as several other secondary outcomes, including patient-reported assessments.

Findings from a recently published study suggest patients with Parkinson disease can reduce postural sway as efficiently as neurologically healthy patients when performing horizontal saccades.

Overall, subcutaneous efgartigimod was safe and effective in patients with seropositive MG, demonstrated by consistent improvements in Myasthenia Gravis-Activites of Daily Living.

The professor of neurology and radiology at University of California, San Francisco, discussed the potential of blood-based biomarkers in Alzheimer treatment eligibility, highlighting current limitations and the importance of safety monitoring. [WATCH TIME: 7 minutes]

The trial, a 20-week study assessing lamotrigine in DLB, will use change in Clinical Dementia Rating-Sum of Boxes as the primary efficacy end point, with several other notable secondary outcomes.

The epilepsy specialist and Cleveland Clinic’s Chief Research and Information Officer discussed the wide-spread applicability of scalp EEG and the potential for machine learning models to help predict epilepsy surgery outcomes. [WATCH TIME: 4 minutes]

For more than a 2-year treatment period, 95% of patients reported taking at least 95% of their daily medications with zilucoplan.

Over a 12-month treatment period, patients on deferiprone demonstrated decreased blood ferritin and hippocampal QSM but caused accelerated cognitive decline and increased regional brain atrophy.

The findings suggest that future phase 3 trials should explore the duration of pain relief and headache recurrence, with the goal of developing structured treatment guidelines for PTH.

The phase 2 DIMENSION study results showed that SAGE-71 was well-tolerated but did not meet its primary end point, leading to Sage Therapeutics’ decision to discontinue its development.

At week 10, investigators observed no differences between triheptanoin and placebo on the frequency of movement disorder events in patients with Glut1 deficiency disorder.

The dean and chief academic officer at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine discussed the university’s investment in computational biology to advance aging and neuroscience research. [WATCH TIME: 5 minutes]

The associate professor of neurology at Georgetown University provided clinical insight on the origins of nilotinib and its medicinal promise in treating patients with Dementia with Lewy bodies, a neurodegenerative disorder.

The global, placebo-controlled, 12-week study aims to enroll 330 participants and expects topline results in the first half of 2026.

The company has decided to pause enrollment in the high-dose cohort of its phase 1 clinical trial for NGN-401 after a participant experienced a serious treatment-related adverse event.

The phase 2 trial is expected to include 80 adults with genetically confirmed CMT who will be followed for a 21-day treatment period, using changes in functional assessments as the primary outcome.

The professor in residence at UCLA Health discussed the critical considerations when deciding appropriate patients for gene therapies, specifically AAV vectors, in treating muscular dystrophies. [WATCH TIME: 4 minutes]

The SKYCLARYS PASS registry, an international observational cohort study, aims to include approximately 300 omaveloxolone-naïve patients participating in the Friedreich’s Ataxia Global Consortium's UNIFIED natural history study.

The change in opinion was after reconsidering the totality of data from the phase 3 Clarity AD trial, a large-scale study of lecanemab featuring more than 1500 patients with early-stage Alzheimer disease.

The professor in residence at UCLA Health provided clinical insight on the limitations of certain gene therapy vehicles for muscular dystrophies, and the need for better vectors that are more myotropic. [WATCH TIME: 3 minutes]

Investigators are set to test the effects of 300 mg/day fasudil after the therapy showed promising data on ALS-related biomarkers in 180 mg/day doses.

Here's the latest multidisciplinary multiple sclerosis (MS) research from the International Journal of MS Care.

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The William S. and Lois Stiles Edgerly Professor of Neurology at Yale School of Medicine talked about the ongoing evolution of multiple sclerosis diagnostic criteria and the importance of comprehensive testing to guide early intervention and improve outcomes. [WATCH TIME: 5 minutes]

Test your neurology knowledge with NeurologyLive®'s weekly quiz series, featuring questions on a variety of clinical and historical neurology topics. This week's topic is on Friedreich ataxia.

According to the company, VQ-101 is the first small molecule to show over 75% activation of the lysosomal enzyme GCase in humans, with phase 1 results in healthy volunteers indicating tolerability and exposure levels that support once-daily dosing.