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14th October 2020

Deep brain stimulation against chronic cluster headaches: Yes or no?

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Cluster headaches, a disease belonging to the class of trigeminal autonomic cephalgias, are seen chronically in about 15% of all cluster headache patients.1,2 Affected individuals have always been treated with…

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7th October 2020

Speaking to Prof. Andrea Rossetti – “Often in life, things happen by chance, but then you have to seize the chance“

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Prof. Andrea Rossetti is the head of the Electroencephalography (EEG) and Epilepsy unit of the Neurological department of the University Hospital of Lausanne in Switzerland. He recently published a potentially…

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26th September 2020

New data on endovascular treatment in patients with cerebral venous thrombosis

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Stroke can have several causes, and one of them is cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT), affecting mostly young adult and middle-aged patients.1 The current standard for CVT is anticoagulation treatment with…

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25th September 2020

Deep brain stimulation in Parkinson’s disease – five-year outcomes

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It has been consistently shown that deep brain stimulation (DBS) in combination with medication is superior to medication alone in mid- and advanced-stage Parkinson’s disease (PD).1 These findings also motivated…

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18th September 2020

Ageing in multiple sclerosis – what do we know?

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“Ageing comes with many issues in multiple sclerosis (MS): progression, comorbidities, cognition problems and response to treatment”, Pierre Duquette (Department of Neuroscience, University of Montreal, Canada), the chair of the…

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18th September 2020

How to promote remyelination in MS

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Strategies to promote remyelination was a hot topic at this year’s virtual ACTRIMS/ECTRIMS joint meeting, with three expert presenters each addressing a different aspect of the subject, including the role…

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17th September 2020

Does the microbiome have a role in MS?

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Can the bacteria living in your gut influence multiple sclerosis (MS) susceptibility and risk of relapse? That was the question Emmanuelle Waubant (University of California, San Francisco, USA) posed during…

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17th September 2020

Is disease-modifying treatment in primary progressive multiple sclerosis effective after all?

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Until now, several randomised controlled trials and real-world studies could not show the clinical benefit of disease‑modifying treatments (DMTs) in primary progressive multiple sclerosis (PPMS).1-4 However, some recently published results…

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17th September 2020

Neurofilament light chain levels as a biomarker in multiple sclerosis

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It has been previously shown that the neuronal cytoskeletal protein neurofilament light chain (NfL) is released into the blood and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) upon neuroaxonal injury.1 Hence it was not…

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17th September 2020

Do hormonal changes influence MS in women?

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There is a paradox in multiple sclerosis (MS): females appear to be more susceptible to the disease than males, but also have a better long-term prognosis. Could this be due…

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