Neurology News

The FDA has granted Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy designation to a novel regenerative cell therapy to treat drug-resistant mesial temporal lobe epilepsy, according to the manufacturer.

SAN DIEGO — In a small cohort of young people, use of gepants to treat headache led to some therapeutic benefit and led to few adverse events, according to a poster from the American Headache Society Annual Scientific Meeting.

SAN DIEGO — A wearable remote electrical neuromodulation device provided consistent efficacy and clinically meaningful benefit to those with migraine, according to a poster presentation at the American Headache Society Annual Scientific Meeting.

New survey results from the AMA illustrate the burden of prior authorization, with many physicians reporting that it leads to serious patient harms, delays care, reduces work productivity and more.

SAN DIEGO — For younger people with migraine, lidocaine injections were linked to better outcomes compared with saline injections, according to a speaker at the American Headache Society Annual Scientific Meeting.

SAN DIEGO — Obtaining serum vitamin levels in children with migraine should be part of symptom management, particularly for older adolescents, according to a speaker at the American Headache Society Annual Scientific Meeting.

A study identified a link between poor sleep and hypertension in children and teenagers, according to findings published in Pediatrics.

SAN DIEGO — Distinctions between burdens faced by those who experience different levels of chronic and episodic migraine should be drawn according to external health care-related factors rather than by symptoms alone, according to a poster.

SAN DIEGO — Patients with migraine who received daytime psilocybin experienced reduced REM sleep, with effects lasting beyond the day of administration, according to a poster at the American Headache Society Annual Scientific Meeting.

Greater adherence to the planetary health diet was associated with a lower risk for an early death from several causes and produced a significantly lower environmental impact, a study showed.