This Week on NeurologyLive — December 14, 2020

Every week, the NeurologyLive staff prepares this preview of what to expect from our coverage. This week on NeurologyLive, there are a number of hot topics that we will be posting throughout the week.

Tune in on Tuesday, December 15, 2020, to watch the latest episode in NeurologyLive’s Insight video series, "Expert Perspectives: Advances in the Management of Acute Migraine." This latest episode features Amaal J. Starling, MD, who discusses the importance of patient communication when optimizing the efficacy of acute migraine treatment.

To catch up on the rest of the series, click here.

The latest in our NeuroVoices series, dedicated to conversations with leaders in the neurology community, will go live on Wednesday, December 16, 2020. This week, Eric Segal, MD, is our featured guest. The director of pediatric epilepsy at the HMH Hackensack University Medical Center provided full context to his phase 3 study presented at AES 2020, which evaluated diazepam nasal spray in patients with epilepsy who were concomitantly using maintenance benzodiazepines. He detailed the importance of his findings, the clinical utility of the drug, and what other clinical trials may be coming down the pike.

To check out the prior NeuroVoices conversations, click here.

The 2020 American Epilepsy Society (AES) Annual Meeting may have wrapped up last week, but NeurologyLive's coverage will continue! Featuring interviews with the experts and presenters themselves, as well as the latest from the presentations of new and clinically relevant data straight from the virtual conference floor.

To catch up on AES 2020 coverage, click here.

A conversation with Todd S. Levine, MD, chief medical officer, CND Life Sciences, and medical director, Honor Health Neurology, will air during NeurologyLive's segment on the Medical World News channel this Thursday, December 17, 2020. Levine discussed an NIH grant he received to fund the Synuclein-One Study of the Syn-One diagnostic test for Parkinson disease and related disorders, as well as how the test is currently making an impact on clinical care.

To check out what's on the Medical World News channel now, click here.

Episode 24 of the NeurologyLive "Mind Moments" podcast will air on Friday, December 18, 2020. The episode, which is part of a larger multimedia series on the saga of Biogen's aducanumab and the challenges of conducting trials in Alzheimer disease, will feature insight from a number of experts in the space, including Richard S. Isaacson, MD; Stephen Salloway, MD, MS; Lon Schneider, MD, MS; and Anton Porsteinsson, MD.

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