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The International Journal of MS Care publishes the abstracts for the CMSC Annual Meeting, which is set to be held May 29-June 1, 2024, in Nashville, Tennessee.

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 Myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody-associated disease (MOGAD).

DC Medicaid covers over 300,000 members in the greater Washington D.C. area, allowing increased access to the FDA-cleared product.

Ataluren, which was conditionally approved in Europe in 2014, had its real-world use backed by data from the STRIDE registry.

Neurology News Network. for the week ending May 25, 2024. [WATCH TIME: 4 minutes]

The lead neuroscientist and lead data scientist at Rune Labs talked about leveraging mobility data to monitor progression in patients with Parkinson disease. [WATCH TIME: 7 minutes]

Khashayar Dashtipour, MD, PhD, an associate professor of neurology at the Loma Linda University Health System, provided an overview of an upcoming CME-credited educational course on movement disorders scheduled for June 1st in Minnetonka, Minnesota.

The professor and chair of rehabilitation medicine at UT Health San Antonio talked about the newly published guidelines for the assessment and management of spasticity in patients with neurological conditions. [WATCH TIME: 5 minutes]

The double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, which includes 2 dosing regimens of COYA 302, is expected to have topline data reported later this summer.

A trio of clinicians from Cleveland Clinic provided perspectives on the advances in neurology seen at the 2024 AAN Annual Meeting, specifically focusing in on epilepsy, stroke, and multiple sclerosis.

Adrienne Viscio, a 63-year-old patient diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia from CaringKind, talked about how she finds solace, engagement, and cognitive benefits through gardening.

Dyne aims to pursue expedited approval pathways for DYNE-251, leveraging dystrophin as a surrogate biomarker.

The vascular neurosurgeon and professor of neurological surgery at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center spoke about advancements in stroke treatment, including endovascular thrombectomy and new drug therapies, that aim to address unmet need in patients. [WATCH TIME: 5 minutes]

DYNE-101 demonstrated dose-dependent splicing correction, with the 5.4 mg/kg cohort showing a 27% mean correction at 3 months.

The phase 3 REACH trial investigating Fulcrum Therapeutics’ losmapimod in patients with facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy remains on track with topline data anticipated in the fourth quarter of 2024.

The study showed durable improvements in VEP latency with bexarotene, suggesting long-term benefits from exposure to a remyelinating drug.

Of respondents who qualified for preventive treatment who were not currently using preventive medication, the majority (86.1%) had also never previously used preventive medication.

Stephanie Richardson, MS, CCC-SLP, an outpatient lead speech-language pathologist at Brooks Rehabilitation, discussed the unique aspects of speech therapy and the pivotal role it plays in helping patients with swallowing and other related functions.

The neurologist and neuro-oncologist at the Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center at Duke University provided clarity on a new analysis of the INDIGO study highlighting treatment benefits of vorasidenib in patients with IDH mutant grade 2 gliomas.

Larimar Therapeutics anticipates interim data from the open label extension study assessing nomlabofusp in patients with Friedreich Ataxia in the fourth quarter of 2024.

Bruce Leuchter, MD, a neuropsychiatrist and chief executive officer at Neurvati Neurosciences, provided insight on a recently published study showing that neurological diseases present the biggest global health threat.

Neal K. Shah, CEO of CareYaya Health Technologies, discussed how the lack of diverse data in neuroscience, particularly for African American and minority populations, will limit the ability of AI to equitably diagnose dementia early across all populations

ION582, delivered intrathecally into the cerebral spinal fluid with a lumbar puncture, resulted in significant improvements in cognition, fine and gross motor skills, and expressive communication.

Frederic Schaper, MD, PhD, an instructor in neurology at Brigham and Women's Hospital, discussed the complex interplay between brain lesions and takotsubo syndrome, a heart condition caused by physical and emotional triggers.

In addition to demonstrating safety and tolerability, treatment with LM11A-31 resulted in significant differences in Aß40 and Aß42, although the ratio of Aß42 and Aß40 was not affected.

In honor of Chronic Demyelinating Polyneuropathy Awareness Month, held May 2024, get caught up on some of the latest news in CIDP, with data updates and expert insights all in one place from the NeurologyLive® team.

The chief medical officer of New England Center for Neurology and Headache talked about trends observed in the clinical practice with Daxxify, a long-acting botulinum toxin for patients with cervical dystonia. [WATCH TIME: 5 minutes]

APN-1607 is undergoing a global phase 3 trial to evaluate its efficacy as an early diagnostic biomarker for progressive supranuclear palsy.

The associate professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School discussed how clinicians face the challenging decision with their patients in choosing between off-label and approved medications for NMOSD. [WATCH TIME: 4 minutes]

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