ANA Annual Meeting

Patients with advanced Parkinson’s disease who enrolled in a study about home visits tended to be older and more racially diverse, according to findings presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Neurological Association.

Medial student curriculum needs to include more training for EEG and epilepsy, according to researchers.

In this video from the Annual Meeting of the American Neurological Association, Jennifer Orthmann-Murphy, MD, PhD, reviews the plenary session she chaired that highlighted current research on targeting glia cells for therapy.

Adults with epilepsy identified treatment for anxiety and depression as a priority and ranked neurologists’ prescribing of pharmacotherapy and wellness activities as their most preferred options for management.

In this video from the Annual Meeting of the American Neurological Association, Conrad "Chris" Weihl, MD, PhD, discusses the plenary session he co-chaired on the genomics of personalized medicine.

In the phase 3 MOMENTUM and INTERCEPT trials, the investigational migraine drug AXS-07 met its coprimary endpoints of pain freedom and freedom from most bothersome symptom at 2 hours compared with placebo.

Functional impairments and symptoms related to migraine caused patients to avoid driving, which negatively affected work productivity, according to findings presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Neurological Association.

The prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease is elevated among patients with HIV, and the prevalence of early onset Alzheimer’s disease is even higher among patients who are not being treated with ART, study findings showed.

In this video from the Annual Meeting of the American Neurological Association, David Gutmann, MD, PhD, FAAN, discusses the plenary session he co-chaired with Steven Small, MD, PhD, on microenvironment control of brain tumor pathogenesis.

Cardiovascular and hematological risk factors increased the risk for in-hospital mortality by 613% and 336%, respectively, in pediatric patients who had an ischemic stroke.