Alzheimer's Plasma Exchange; Fish Intake and Brain Health; HIV Neuropathy News and commentary from the world of neurology and neuroscience Nov 09, 2021
One Aducanumab Patient, Six Brain Edema Episodes "Uniquely complicated course" for patient treated with new Alzheimer's drug Nov 08, 2021
Focused Ultrasound Approved for Advanced Parkinson's Expanded indication includes medication-refractory PD patients with motor problems Nov 05, 2021
Worse COVID-19 Outcomes for Disabled MS Patients But monoclonal antibodies offer hope for high-risk people, registry data show Nov 02, 2021
MS Treatment: Early Aggressive or Escalation Therapy? Clinical trial, observational data may not be enough to decide best strategy Nov 01, 2021
Guillain-Barre Risk Up Slightly After Shingrix Findings support FDA warning for recombinant zoster vaccine Nov 01, 2021
Michigan EDs See Jump in Cannabis-Related Neuropsychiatric Toxicity Community-based study reports "troublesome" data in state that legalized marijuana for adults Oct 30, 2021
New MS Drug Does Not Appear to Increase COVID Severity Most COVID cases were mild or moderate in patients treated with ofatumumab Oct 29, 2021
Cannabis Use Common Among People With MS Most don't ask for medical guidance, survey shows Oct 28, 2021
Alan Jackson's Neurological Disorder Country legend announces he's living with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease Oct 26, 2021
Sudden Psychosis, Abnormal CSF in Three Teens With COVID In two cases, patients responded to immunotherapy Oct 25, 2021
Artificial Intelligence in Psychiatry Has Promise and Peril It may help in assessing things like suicide risk, but its use raises informed consent issues Oct 24, 2021
Ivermectin for COVID-19 Linked to Severe Toxicity in Small Study Confusion, ataxia, seizures, hypotension -- and for some, ICU admission Oct 20, 2021
Frequent MRI May Spot Active Secondary Progressive MS More Quickly "If you rely on having a clinical relapse, you may wait a long time" Oct 19, 2021
Tread Carefully in Choosing the Next FDA Leader The potential re-appointment of Robert Califf as commissioner is cause for concern Oct 19, 2021
HCQ and MS; Guillain-Barre and COVID Vax; Neural Fingerprints Can Tell Who You Are News and commentary from the world of neurology and neuroscience Oct 19, 2021
COVID Vaccine Response Varies With MS Treatment Type How this relates to infection outcomes or risk of infecting others is unknown Oct 18, 2021
Quitting Smoking Tied to Slower Motor Decline in Multiple Sclerosis Analysis suggests smoking cessation has benefits in MS Oct 17, 2021
Slowly Expanding Lesions in MS Reduced With BTK Inhibitor Evobrutinib shows effect on marker of chronic inflammation Oct 17, 2021
Novel Anti-CD20 Drug Shows Promise in Relapsing MS Ublituximab bests teriflunomide in head-to-head phase III trials Oct 14, 2021
Long Spaceflight Tied to Brain Injury, Neurodegeneration Markers Amyloid-beta, neurofilament light, GFAP show changes weeks after return to Earth Oct 11, 2021
'Havana Syndrome': A Real and Present Danger A breakdown of the who, what, when, why, and how Oct 05, 2021
Is This the Future of Corticosteroids? Novel agent, aimed at doing away with adverse metabolic effects, proves mettle in DMD Oct 05, 2021
TikTok Tics; COVID Vaccines and CVST; Predicting Brain Injury Outcomes News and commentary from the world of neurology and neuroscience Oct 05, 2021
Some Epilepsy Drugs Linked to Cardiovascular Disease Long-term use of enzyme-inducing antiseizure medications raises risk Oct 04, 2021
Olfactory Loss Common in Sjogren's Syndrome Objective impairments in olfaction correlated with disease activity and symptoms Sep 29, 2021
Does Slight Autism Risk With Epidurals Matter? Study authors and JAMA editorial say probably not Sep 28, 2021
Guillain-Barré and COVID; Head-to-Head Alzheimer's Blood Tests; Fastball EEG News and commentary from the world of neurology and neuroscience Sep 28, 2021
AAN Issues Social Media Position Statement Neurology group encourages ethical use, warns about privacy and false or misleading posts Sep 27, 2021
Stimulant Reduces Apathy in Alzheimer's Disease Twice daily methylphenidate showed modest effect size Sep 27, 2021
More Severe Congenital Heart Disease Tied to Lower IQ in Kids IQ reduced by 10 points compared with healthy peers Sep 24, 2021
Preventing Gun Violence in Patients With Dementia Gun safety advocate Emmy Betz, MD, MPH, offers advice Sep 23, 2021
Pipeline Flex Endovascular Flow Diverters Under Recall Serious injury and death linked to fracturing issue in the delivery system, FDA warns Sep 21, 2021
Amyloid Tipping Point Helps Predict Alzheimer's Dementia Onset Algorithm requires only one PET scan and age Sep 20, 2021
ADEM After COVID-19 Vaccine: Case Report Young woman diagnosed with acute disseminated encephalomyelitis treated successfully Sep 17, 2021
Feared ARNI Effect on Cognition Hasn't Come to Fruition Neurocognitive protection by sacubitril/valsartan suggested instead by observational study Sep 12, 2021
Some Reassurance on Cognition in People With Older LVADs Will newer devices look even better for neurological outcomes? Sep 08, 2021
Gene Therapies Require Neurologic Monitoring Nerve conduction, MRI monitoring may mitigate neurotoxicity risks Sep 07, 2021
