Neurocritical Care News

Utilization of a teleneurology program by U.S. military veterans resulted in more efficient care compared with the community standard, and resulted in a high level of satisfaction, per research from the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

Rates of new-onset mental health conditions were higher in U.S. soldiers with a history of military-related traumatic brain injury, while increased risk for suicide was both directly and indirectly associated with TBI history.

The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded $11.4 million to a Boston-based biotherapeutics firm to advance its novel oral prodrug of endogenous allopregananolone, LYT-300, to treat Fragile X-associated Tremor Ataxia syndrome.

NYU Langone Hospitals was named the top hospital in the United States for neurology and neurosurgery by the U.S. News & World Report’s annual Best Hospitals survey.

The FDA has granted breakthrough therapy designation to an investigational antisense nucleotide therapeutic to treat individuals with Duchenne muscular dystrophy amenable to exon 44 skipping therapy.

The risk for dementia was 2.41 times greater in Danish adults with diagnosed depression, an association that persisted when depression was diagnosed in early and middle life, according to research in JAMA Neurology.

A biotechnology company has announced positive safety and efficacy data from two ongoing phase 1/2a studies as well as an open-label extension study of STK-001 to treat younger individuals with Dravet syndrome.

A Southern California-based neuroscience company has announced initiation of a phase 2 clinical trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of investigational therapeutic ENX-102 in those with generalized anxiety disorder.

Therapeutic Solutions International has filed with the FDA to receive orphan drug designation for its JadiCell adult stem cell therapy for treatment of frontotemporal dementia.

We are in a crisis when it comes to mental health in Alabama. According to the National Alliance on Mental Health, one in five adults in the state lives with mental illness.