Neurology

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, David Gutmann, MD, PhD, FAAN, discusses the plenary session he co-chaired with Steven Small, MD, PhD, on microenvironment control of brain tumor pathogenesis.

In this video from the Annual Meeting of the American Neurological Association, Justin C. McArthur, MBBS, MPH, discussed the Presidential Symposium, Leveraging Digital Technologies in Neurology, that featured six presentations.

In this video from MSVirtual2020, Jeffrey Cohen, MD, professor of medicine (neurology) at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine and ACTRIMS president, provides an overview of what to expect from the meeting. The 8th Joint ACTRIMS-ECTRIMS Meeting is being held from Sept. 11-13, 2020, in a virtual format because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The rapid implementation of telemedicine in a large pediatric neurology network due to the COVID-19 pandemic revealed that telemedicine is feasible and effective for “a large proportion” of this patient population.

SAN FRANCISCO — At the American Academy of Ophthalmology meeting, Alex A. Huang, MD, PhD, gives an update on terrestrial research efforts to treat spaceflight-associated neuro-ocular syndrome.

Athletes may not be fully recovered from a concussion 1 year after being cleared to return to play, according to a study published in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

According to new data from the COMPASS trial, patients with systemic atherosclerosis assigned low-dose rivaroxaban plus aspirin had reduced risk for cardioembolic stroke and embolic stroke of undetermined origin compared with patients assigned aspirin alone.

Former National Football League players who experienced more concussions during their careers reported more erectile dysfunction and low testosterone in retirement than those who had experienced fewer concussions, according to findings published in JAMA Neurology.

Patients who had sustained hypertension in midlife to late life and those with midlife hypertension and late-life hypotension had an increased risk for dementia later in life compared with patients with normal BP in midlife and late life, according to a study published in JAMA.