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Serum neurofilament light chain level may indicate MS disease activity
The biomarker is associated with brain atrophy, and changes in sNfL level are associated with disability worsening.
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Midlife hypertension is associated with subsequent risk of dementia
Elevated blood pressure in midlife is associated with risk of subsequent dementia, but whether the risk is treatable is unclear.
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Ketogenic diets are what’s cooking for drug-refractory epilepsy
BANGKOK – New developments in a long-established form of epilepsy therapy.
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Asthma hospitalization in kids linked with doubled migraine incidence
PHILADELPHIA – Data from 11 million U.S. pediatric inpatients showed a doubled rate of migraine diagnoses among kids hospitalized for asthma.
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Lasmiditan is associated with driving impairment
PHILADELPHIA – Impairment is detected at 1.5 hours after dosing and is resolved by 8 hours after dosing.
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Treatment of episodic cluster headache deviates from recommendations
PHILADELPHIA – Among patients with episodic cluster headache, use of acute medications is high, but use of...
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ECT breaks super-refractory status epilepticus
BANGKOK – Researcher calls ECT safe and efficacious adjunctive therapy in adults with super-refractory status epilepticus of the NORSE subtype.
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Mortality is high in pediatric superrefractory status epilepticus
BANGKOK – Fulminant cerebral edema was the leading cause of death.
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Neonatal epileptic syndromes are surprisingly common
BANGKOK – Nearly one in six severe epilepsies of infancy identified in a major study involved one of the neonatal or early infantile syndromes.
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Quarterly intravenous eptinezumab prevents migraine
PHILADELPHIA – Results from a pair of dose-ranging, randomized studies showed one IV eptinezumab dose cut migraine recurrences for 3 months.
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Epilepsy surgery outcome prediction seeks to gain ground
BANGKOK – It’s time for the prediction of seizure outcomes after epilepsy surgery to step into the 21st century.