Neurology News

Tailored Parkinson’s disease gait impairment compensation strategies may help patients, according to results of a survey study published in Neurology.

Biogen announced it intends to initiate a global phase 3b study to investigate clinical outcomes and safety of a higher dose of Spinraza in patients with later onset spinal muscular atrophy previously treated with Evrysdi.

The COVID-19 pandemic is the latest example of how female leaders can thrive over their male counterparts in crisis situations, a keynote speaker at the virtual Women in Medicine Summit said.

PTC Therapeutics Inc. released results showing that treatment with Translarna delayed loss of ambulation by more than 5 years among boys with nonsense mutation Duchenne muscular dystrophy vs. standard of care alone.

Patients with neurological conditions had an increased risk for adverse childhood experiences compared with the overall U.S. population, according to results of a cross-sectional study published in Neurology: Clinical Practice.

High maximum systolic BP in the immediate hours following endovascular therapy for ischemic stroke is associated with poor functional outcome and increased risk for symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage, according to data published in Stroke.

Restarting antiplatelet therapy did not significantly increase the risk for recurrent intracerebral hemorrhage or major vascular events, according to a study in JAMA Neurology.

Alzheimer’s disease remains a significant public health challenge, with as many as 5.8 million Americans having had the disease in 2020, according to estimates in a study published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia.

Small fiber neuropathy, a pain-inducing condition that resembles and overlaps with fibromyalgia, may be significantly under-diagnosed in the U.S., according to a presenter at the 2021 Congress of Clinical Rheumatology-West.

People with MS had lower overall and cancer-specific survival soon after colorectal cancer diagnosis compared with those without MS, according to results of a retrospective matched cohort study published in Neurology.