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16th October 2018

Serum neurofilament light: A biomarker for disease activity in MS

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How close are we to establishing a reliable liquid biomarker for detecting disease onset, progression and treatment response in multiple sclerosis? According to Dr Peter Calabresi (Johns Hopkins, USA) at…

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15th October 2018

Results from the MS-SMART trial unveiled

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Secondary progressive multiple sclerosis (SPMS) is known to be extremely difficult to treat; there are no effective therapies for halting or reversing disability progression in the late disease phase. In…

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15th October 2018

De-risking PML: A conversation with Prof. Walter Atwood

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We interviewed Professor Walter Atwood last week at the 2018 ECTRIMS congress in Berlin, Germany, to learn about advances in treating progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) – an important treatment-associated infection…

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12th October 2018

Fighting neurodegeneration in MS

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The pathology of multiple sclerosis (MS) involves not only the loss of myelin sheets around the axons of neurons, but also the fragmentation of the axons themselves. At ECTRIMS 2018,…

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12th October 2018

MS treatment strategy: Hitting hard and early, or minimising risks through stepwise escalation?

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With more than a dozen approved treatment options for relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS), treatment decision making is an increasingly complex task for neurologists. At ECTRIMS 2018, the topic on which…

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11th October 2018

FLOODLIGHT offers illuminating outcomes for smartphone monitoring in MS

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Smartphone-based, high-yield active and passive self-monitoring of multiple sclerosis (MS) may enhance clinical disease assessments when compared to conventional methods for detecting subtle progressive clinical changes, according to a study…

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5th October 2018

New molecule could halt neural damage in Parkinson’s disease

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Researchers may have found a way to halt, and even reverse, the neural damage associated with Parkinson’s disease (PD) using a novel molecule that targets a key cause of nerve…

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1st October 2018

Restoring “conductor” cells in the orchestra of schizophrenia

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Key symptoms of schizophrenia, including hallucinations, hyperactivity and impaired memory, could be caused by desynchronised cells in the brain, recent research published in Nature Neuroscience has revealed. The authors investigated…

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28th September 2018

3 minutes with Prof. Goadsby – Interview from SNG

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Professor Peter Sandor interviewed Professor Peter Goadsby at the SNG Annual Meeting this week in Montreux, Switzerland. They spoke about one of the top leading causes of disability–migraine. Watch the…

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27th September 2018

Paralysis patients able to walk after epidural stimulation

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Patients with complete lower limb paralysis after spinal cord injury (SCI) have been given the ability to walk again, it was reported this week. In work published in Nature Medicine,…

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