Neurology Updates

Neurology Updates

Here you will find regular scientific news from our Scientific Panels. We cover all areas of neurology, including rare diseases. The most recent news are displayed below. You will find all news of different areas sorted into the subsections of the respective scientific panel. Enjoy reading!

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| Palliative Care  

A study in Canada has suggested that specialist palliative care involvement in the last year of life may reduce visits to emergency departments and…

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| Multiple Sclerosis  

Epstein-Barr virus infection is the strongest known risk factor for the development of multiple sclerosis, and it precedes preclinical manifestation…

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| Multiple Sclerosis  

The 2017 McDonald criteria showed higher sensitivity, lower specificity, and similar accuracy in predicting clinically definite multiple sclerosis…

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| Multiple Sclerosis  

Insidious disability accrual starts already in the earliest phases of multiple sclerosis and becomes dominant over the disease course, suggesting an…

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| Neuroimaging  

In multiple sclerosis, an impairment of the glymphatic system may contribute to pathology accrual in the central nervous system and disability…

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| Neuroimaging  

Baseline characteristics of Aβ-positive individuals can help identify those who will remain tau-negative for at least 5 years.

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| Neuroimaging  

Greater diffusion restriction in the white matter of amyloid-beta-positive cognitively unimpaired individuals supports the role of inflammation in…

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| Palliative Care  

The palliative care out-patient clinic approach for people with Parkinson’s disease improves the quality of life for patients and reduces the…

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| Stroke  

A randomized clinical trial of alteplase administered after endovascular stroke treatment showed a statistically significant benefit toward favourable…

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| Stroke  

The revised Boston criteria allow for a more accurate diagnosis of cerebral amyloid angiopathy

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| Coordinating Panel on Rare Neurological Diseases  

WGS can reliably assess the most common neurological disease-causing repeat expansions, further supporting its implementation in clinical practice

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| Palliative Care  

The use of prognostic indicators for end of life palliative care for Parkinson’s disease and related disorders have been shown, in a systematic…

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| Epilepsy  

Overlapping pathophysiological mechanisms may contribute to some cases of epilepsy and cognitive impairment.

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| Epilepsy  

Recent insights into premature mortality in epilepsy and potential mitigating factors

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| Palliative Care  

The American Academy of Neurology Clinical Guidance on Neuropalliative care outlines the need for neurologists to be involved in the palliative care…

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| Palliative Care  

The care of someone with dementia raises many ethical issues – of communication, decision making, care, symptom and behavioural support and carer…

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| Palliative Care  

The social isolation and physical inactivity during the COVID-19 pandemic has increased symptom and psychosocial issues for people with neurological…

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| Palliative Care  

Palliative care outpatient clinics, with a multidisciplinary team, helps patients with Parkinson’s disease and related disorders and their families

 

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| Clinical neurophysiology  

Event Related Potentials might be an accurate neurophysiological biomarker for early diagnosis of AD and prediction of MCI to AD conversion.

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| Neuroimmunology  

A medical mystery solved after more than 60 years- analysis of archival brain tissue allows characterization of rare fatal disease

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| Epilepsy  

The major problem for epilepsy patients is unpredictability of seizures attacks, which carry a risk of accidents and has negative impact on normal…

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| Coordinating Panel on Rare Neurological Diseases  

The world has changed for patients and parents of children suffering from spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) type 1. Without treatment these children…

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| Coordinating Panel on Rare Neurological Diseases  

SMA is a perfect example of rare neurological disease, and should be regarded as a prototype concerning the medical and social aspects of its…

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| Dementia and cognitive disorders  

Patients using angiotensin-II-stimulating antihypertensives have 45% lower risk to develop demenia compared to those that use…

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| Dementia and cognitive disorders  

Study results suggest that RO948 F 18 has a high specificity for Alzheimer disease–type tau and highlight its potential as a diagnostic marker.

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| Dementia and cognitive disorders  

Blood p-tau 181 is sensitive for identifying clinically diagnosed AD patients in the very early disease stages; differentiates AD from other…

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| Dementia and cognitive disorders  

Each AD phenotype had its own pattern of baseline and rates of change in tau pathology and grey matter loss, with some overlap particularly in the…

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| Coma & Chronic Disorders of Consciousness  

Auditory localization should be considered as a sign of consciousness, as unresponsive patients who demonstrate this behaviour show increased brain…

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| Coma & Chronic Disorders of Consciousness  

The process of end-of-life decision-making for patients with disorders of consciousness should include caregivers in bedside assessments and integrate…

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| Coma & Chronic Disorders of Consciousness  

An international study showed that younger age, shorter time since injury, higher level of responsiveness and EEG reactivity to eye opening are all…

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| Coma & Chronic Disorders of Consciousness  

Habituation of auditory startle reflex should be considered as a sign of the minimally conscious state, as unresponsive patients who demonstrate this…

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| Coma & Chronic Disorders of Consciousness  

A Dutch nationwide prospective cohort study has been launched to monitor the outcomes of patients included in the Early Intensive Rehabilitation…

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| Coma & Chronic Disorders of Consciousness  

The Vagal Cortical Pathways model aims to explain possible mechanisms for the action of transcutaneous auricular vagal nerve stimulation to promote…

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| Palliative Care  

The COVID 19 pandemic has affected people with neurological disease and reduced the care provided, with possible adverse sequelae, including frailty.

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| Palliative Care  

A new study has shown that a short-term palliative care intervention was seen positively by the patients and families and reduced costs, but did not…

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| Autonomic nervous system disorders  

Siponimod has been associated with decrease in HR at treatment initiation and development of hypertension during treatment, which may be predicted by…

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| Pain  

Pain management, covid-19 pandemic, recommendations

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| Dementia and cognitive disorders  

Rotigotine in patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer disease may have a potential effect in reducing frontal lobe cognitive dysfunction and in…

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| Epilepsy  

Telemedicine consultations can aid effective epilepsy care, even for first visits.

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| Epilepsy  

Caution is warranted with the use of antiseizure medications in the context of COVID-19 illness.

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| Epilepsy  

This neurology update focuses on mental well-being of people with epilepsy and their caregivers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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| Coordinating Panel on Rare Neurological Diseases  

Highet B, Dieriks BV, Murray HC, Faull RLM and Curtis MA (2020)

Huntingtin Aggregates in the Olfactory Bulb in Huntington’s Disease. Front. Aging…

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| Coordinating Panel on Rare Neurological Diseases  

Ataxin-1 regulates B cell function and the severity of autoimmune experimental encephalomyelitis.

www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.2003798117 …

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| Sleep disorders  

The International Restless Legs Syndrome Study Group task force found sufficient evidence to formulate diagnostic criteria for pediatric clinical…

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| Dementia and cognitive disorders  

Dementia Lewy bodies (DLB) may present in the prodromal stage as mild cognitive impairment, delirium-onset or psychiatric-onset and authors proposed…

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| Epilepsy  

Around 20-30% epileptic patients do not achieve seizure freedom despite well selected and tolerated pharmacological treatment. Surgery is a widely…

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| Autonomic nervous system disorders  

Transient orthostatic hypotension is as common as classic orthostatic hypotension in people with Parkinson’s disease. Short-lived falls in blood…

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| Dementia and cognitive disorders  

Dementia Lewy bodies (DLB) may present in the prodromal stage as mild cognitive impairment, delirium-onset or psychiatric-onset and authors proposed…

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| Stroke  

The THALES study investigated dual antiplatelet therapy with Aspirin plus Ticagrelor in patients with mild non-cardioembolic stroke or high-risk TIA.

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| Autonomic nervous system disorders  

Evaluating blood pressure and heart rate changes upon standing helps screening for nOH at bedside.

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| Palliative Care  

A paper has just been published – Collaboration between palliative care and neurology: a survey of clinicians in Europe.

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| Neurocritical care  

Guidelines for the Acute Treatment of Cerebral Edema in Neurocritical Care Patients, recommendations for patients with Subarachnoid Hemorrhage, Acute…

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| COVID-19 | Epilepsy  

This neurology update summarises additional case reports on seizures and status epilepticus associated with COVID-19 in patients without a history of…

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| COVID-19 | Epilepsy  

Telemedicine can help to deliver epilepsy care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Careful planning is needed to protect patients and healthcare workers…

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| Neurorehabilitation  

Why we need neurorehabiliation now more than ever, and how to deal with this.

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| Palliative Care  

An e book has just been published by Frontiers Research Topics entitled” Palliative care in neurology” - Oliver D, de Visser M and Voltz R (2020)…

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| Stroke  

The first randomized controlled trial investigating treatment with thrombolysis before mechanical thrombectomy was recently published.

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| COVID-19 | Epilepsy  

Acute symptomatic seizures have been reported with SARS-CoV-2-positive meningoencephalitis but, overall, seizures seem uncommon with SARS-CoV-2…

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| COVID-19 | Neuroscience/ Translational neurology  

Kanberg et al., 2020: Neurochemical evidence of astrocytic and neuronal injury commonly found in COVID-19.

In this paper, the authors investigated…

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| Epilepsy  

Status epilepticus (SE) remains life thereatening condition with limited therepautic options. Benzodiazepine-refractory, or established, SE is thought…

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| Palliative Care  

A new guideline on the palliative care for people with severe multiple sclerosis has been produced by EAN, in collaboration with the European…

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| Epilepsy  

A double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled phase II study of adjunctive cenobamate in adults with uncontrolled focal epilepsy showed high rates of…

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| COVID-19 | Coordinating Panel on Rare Neurological Diseases  

Rare neurological diseases are usually hereditary chronic disorders, affecting the central, peripheral nervous system and skeletal muscle, with…

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| COVID-19 | Epilepsy  

This neurology update summarises key points on caring for people with epilepsy during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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| COVID-19 | Epilepsy  

Seizures appear to be a rare feature of COVID-19. Avoiding unintentional antiseizure medicine withdrawal during the COVID-19 pandemic is a potential…

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| COVID-19  

According to the WHO, the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has already reached pandemic proportion, affecting at present more than…

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| COVID-19 | Autonomic nervous system disorders  

The ongoing COVID-19 outbreak raises new management challenges, which lack an evidence-based answer to date. The management group of the EAN…

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| COVID-19 | Neurocritical care  

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Patients with…

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| COVID-19 | Child neurology  

The number of subjects infected with SARS-Cov-2 is dramatically increasing worldwide since the beginning of this year.

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| COVID-19 | Neurorehabilitation  

The SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 pandemic is deeply affecting our health systems both directly and indirectly. In several countries, neurorehabilitation units…

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| COVID-19 | Neurosonology  

In view of the challenges of the current Corona virus (COVID-19) pandemic and with the aim of protecting both patients and ultrasound providers…

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| COVID-19 | Neuro-oncology  

At present, the Covid-19 pandemic is the focus of the global community and an all-consuming threat to the health care systems all across Europe.…

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| COVID-19 | Headache  

We are experiencing an unprecedented situation that no one had imagined or prepared for which has hit Europe during a period of prosperity, and the…

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| COVID-19 | Coma & Chronic Disorders of Consciousness  

The growing emergency due to the Covid-19 pandemic has rapidly and abruptly stressed health systems in all involved countries. Post-acute…

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| COVID-19 | Infectious diseases  

The authors of this review (2) article hypothesize that respiratory dysfunction could be explained in part by the well-known neuroinvasive potential…

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| Clinical neurophysiology  

Cutaneous silent period is a useful, although underestimated tool for the clinical assessment of poly neuropathy as well as other neurological…

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| COVID-19 | Movement Disorders  

The Covid-19 global pandemic is having a dramatic impact on many chronic conditions including those affecting neurological patients and among them…

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| COVID-19 | Pain  

Due to the CoVID-19 pandemic spread, most outpatient facilities have been strictly regulated, thus making it difficult for many patients suffering…

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| COVID-19 | Muscle & Neuromuscular Junction Disorders  

Neuromuscular diseases are a group of heterogenic rare conditions, that can be due to a genetic cause, inflammatory processes or dysimmune disorders.…

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| COVID-19 | Neuroscience/ Translational neurology  

Highly pathogenic coronavirus infections are well-established sources of previous epidemics (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus: SARS‐CoV,…

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| COVID-19 | ALS and frontotemporal dementia  

In patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), the impact of respiratory infections is expected to be more serious than in the general…

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| COVID-19 | Clinical neurophysiology  

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) typically causes fever, pulmonary and respiratory symptoms as well as gastrointestinal symptoms in the form of…

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| COVID-19 | Dementia and cognitive disorders  

During the Covid-19 pandemic, most European countries have imposed personal restrictions on their populations in order to inhibit viral transmission…

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| COVID-19 | Neurogenetics  

To our knowledge, there is currently no evidence on how and if Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) affects people with rare neurological diseases,…

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| COVID-19 | Infectious diseases  

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The virus causes…

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| COVID-19 | Epilepsy  

Physicians of all specialties worldwide are challenged by the new SARS-CoV-2 virus causing corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The virus is causing…

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| COVID-19 | Neuroepidemiology  

An unexpected outbreak due to the infection by the coronavirus, Covid-19, which started in China at the end of 2019, is rapidly expanding and is now…

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| COVID-19 | Multiple Sclerosis | Neuroimmunology  

Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a new illness caused by the novel coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2),…

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| Neuro-oncology  

Practice changing studies have been published in late 2017 and 2018 on IDH wild-type diffuse astrocytoma (the new entity of WHO 2016 classification),…

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| Neurotraumatology  

Patients with mild to moderate traumatic brain injury may benefit from treatment with Tranexamic Acid within 3 hours of injury.

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| Autonomic nervous system disorders  

Can physiotherapy combined with vagal nerve stimulation enhance the functional recovery after stroke?

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| Neurogenetics  

A recent paper from Cortese et al (2019) reported that a new intronic expansion may be a relevant cause of late-onset ataxia.

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| Autonomic nervous system disorders  

Multiple system atrophy (MSA) is a rare, fatal, neurodegenerative disease of the adulthood presenting with progressive autonomic failure,…

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| All others  

A patient with Nakalanga syndrome (NLS) is unlikely to present for clinical care in Europe because cases are confined to impoverished sub-Saharan…

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| Sleep disorders  

Findings suggest narcolepsy type 1 to be a T-cell mediated autoimmune disease targeting hypocretin-producing Neurons.

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| Epilepsy  

There are limited options as second line treatment in convulsive status epilepticus (CSE), both in underage and adult populations with sufficient…

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| Infectious diseases  

Zika virus circulation has decreased but there is a possibility of its emergence or re-emergence in all areas with competent mosquito vectors.

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| Epilepsy  

In patient with post stroke epilepsy and non-valvular atrial fibrillation, the combination of levetiracetam and NOACs is very valuable. Therapeutic…

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| Neuropathies  

Antiparanodal antibodies in CIDP.

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| Neuropathies  

No benefit from second dose of immunoglobulin treatment for severe Guillain-Barre syndrome.

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| Higher Cortical Functions  

Right frontal regions make a significant contribution to inhibitory behavioural control.

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| Infectious diseases  

Fluoroquinolones increase the risk of peripheral neuropathy.

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| Palliative Care  

Neurology and Palliative Care - collaboration now and in the future

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| Sleep disorders  

Multimodal neuroimaging studies highlight the extent brain-wide structural changes in narcolepsy type 1.

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| Clinical neurophysiology  

Guidelines based on consensus of international experts on the current status of Single Fiber EMG and the measurement of neuromuscular jitter with…

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| Clinical neurophysiology  

The first IFCN-endorsed clinical guidelines for magnetoencephalography

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| Coma & Chronic Disorders of Consciousness | Coordinating Panel on Rare Neurological Diseases  

Three patients with chronic disorders of consciousness showed behavioural and neuroimaging improvements after 30 days of treatment by apomorphine in…

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| Clinical neurophysiology  

Guidelines based on consensus of international experts on the current status of Single Fiber EMG and the measurement of neuromuscular jitter with…

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| Clinical neurophysiology  

The first IFCN-endorsed clinical guidelines for magnetoencephalography

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| Coma & Chronic Disorders of Consciousness  

Three patients with chronic disorders of consciousness showed behavioural and neuroimaging improvements after 30 days of treatment by apomorphine in…

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| Epilepsy  

There is need for automated seizure detection using wearable devices, to decrease the morbidity and mortality associated with seizures, especially…

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| Neurosonology  

Transcranial sonography and MRI - fusion ultrasound can serve as a screening tool for detecting the preclinical stage and differential diagnosis of…

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| Stroke  

Intravenous thrombolysis improved outcomes in ischemic stroke patients between 4.5-9 hours after symptom onset based on perfusion Imaging.

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| Muscle & Neuromuscular Junction Disorders  

An integrated approach, merging accurate genetic and clinical data, is critical to properly study the effect of new treatments in FSHD.

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| Neurogenetics  

DNA methylation editing of the FMR1 gene rescue Fragile X syndrome neurons.

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| Neuro-ophthalmology and -otology  

Awareness of atypical features in optic neuritis is crucial to initiate appropriate treatment and prevent permanent visual loss.

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| Pain  

Whether small fiber pathology accounts for pain in fibromyalgia, and whether brain imaging can be used as an objective marker of pain remain…

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| Neurorehabilitation  

An article from the February 2019 edition of Neuropharmacology published by researchers from the Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation from…

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| Child neurology  

A major issue in genetic disorders is to find out clues, which may help to interpret the phenotypic heterogeneity, in order to provide more precise…

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| Coordinating Panel on Rare Neurological Diseases | Sleep disorders  

Anectdotal evidence has pointed out clinical improvements narcolepsy-specific symptoms following treatment of painful conditions with opiates.…

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| Infectious diseases  

One of the most controversial topics in microbiome research is the connection between the gut microbial metabolism and mental health. Advanced…

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| Higher Cortical Functions  

Up to 20% of patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) develop impulse control behaviours (ICBs) on dopaminergic therapy, particularly on dopamine…

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| Infectious diseases | Coordinating Panel on Rare Neurological Diseases  

Nodding syndrome (NS) is a neurologic disorder of unknown cause that affects children in the subsistence-farming communities of East Africa.…

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| Clinical neurophysiology  

To date there is no electrophysiological gold standard in defining the subtypes of GBS. Recovery of abnormal CMAP amplitude reduction and of…

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| Clinical neurophysiology  

Somatosensory evoked potentials (SEPs) allow to obtain functional and localising information about the dorsal somatosensory system. SEPs are…

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| Epilepsy | Coordinating Panel on Rare Neurological Diseases  

Epilepsies affect around 65 million people worldwide and are clinically a heterogeneous group of neurological disorders. Despite strong evidence for…

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| Neurotraumatology  

A subset of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) patients experience post-concussion symptoms. When a cluster of post-concussion symptoms persists for…

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| Autonomic nervous system disorders  

Pure autonomic failure (PAF) is both, a rare condition and a pathogenetic mystery, first described by Bradbury and Eggleston in 1925, as a syndrome…

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| Palliative Care  

The use of tracheostomy with invasive ventilation (TIV) for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is challenging and raises the most delicate questions…

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| Dementia and cognitive disorders  

Despite its large use, recommendations for the use of brain F-18 FDG-PET in clinical practice were still lacking. The European Academy of Neurology…

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| Multiple Sclerosis  

Among the different environmental variables that may play a role in the pathogenesis of MS, the influence of the microorganisms living in or on the…

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| Autonomic nervous system disorders  

Functional gastrointestinal disturbances affect the vast majority of Parkinson’s Disease (PD) patients before appearance of the cardinal motor…

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| Movement Disorders  

Differential diagnosis of tremor syndromes is challenging task for neurologists. The need of a new classification scheme arises from recent…

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| Stroke  

Recently two trials reported results about effectiveness of thrombectomy for patients with acute ischemic stroke with large-vessel occlusion of…

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| Coma & Chronic Disorders of Consciousness  

Behavioural scales, such as the Coma Recovery Scale-Revised (CRS-R), are universally considered the gold standard for responsiveness assessment,…

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| Headache  

The last months saw the publication of large clinical trials on the efficacy of CGRP antibodies in chronic migraine. This offers a new perspective for…

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| Neurocritical care | Coordinating Panel on Rare Neurological Diseases  

Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) is a rare but very important condition characterized by a sudden decrease in the platelet count of more than…

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| All others  

Although smoking is associated with a more severe disease course in people with multiple sclerosis (MS), the magnitude of effect of smoking cessation…

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| ALS and frontotemporal dementia | Coordinating Panel on Rare Neurological Diseases  

It was l suggested a long time ago, that ALS is rather a cortical than a spinal disease. The work of Heiko Braak and collaborators has demonstrated…

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| Palliative Care | Coordinating Panel on Rare Neurological Diseases  

There are increasing close links between palliative care and neurology.  The European Association for Palliative Care has a close relationship with…

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| Neuroimmunology | Coordinating Panel on Rare Neurological Diseases  

Antibodies to leucine-rich glioma-inactivated 1 (LGI1) are associated with faciobrachial dystonic seizures (FBDS) and limbic encephalitis. Although…

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| Coordinating Panel on Rare Neurological Diseases | Pain  

Classical trigeminal neuralgia is a rare painful chronic disorder. Carbamazepine and oxcarbazepine are first line treatments and act by blocking…

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| Muscle & Neuromuscular Junction Disorders | Coordinating Panel on Rare Neurological Diseases  

Dear colleagues, 

we would like to drive your attention to the recent developments in Spinal Muscular Atrophy. Two different approaches (use of…

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| Neurogenetics  

McNeill and colleagues describe a patient suffering from leukoencephalopathy, brain calcifications and cysts (LCC).

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| Neuroepidemiology  

The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors (GBD) Study provides information on the worldwide and country-specific distribution, trends…

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| Coordinating Panel on Rare Neurological Diseases | Sleep disorders  

In the past years multiple publications have focused on the immunological etiology of narcolepsy. Despite the extremely tight association with HLA…

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| Neurotraumatology  

According to current guidelines [1] by the Brain Trauma Foundation in traumatic brain injury (TBI), intracranial pressure monitoring (ICP) is still…

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| Neurorehabilitation | Stroke  

Recently, a meta-analysis was published indicating  a beneficial effect of Cerebrolysin, a multimodal molecule, in the early rehabilitation of…

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| Neuro-oncology  

Several key papers regarding advances in brain tumors have been published in 2016 and 2017, and all are practice changing. A pivotal European/Canadian…

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| Neuropathies | Coordinating Panel on Rare Neurological Diseases  

Hereditary transthyretin (TTR) amyloidosis (hATTR) is a devastating, progressive and ultimately fatal genetic disease with limited treatment…

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| Autonomic nervous system disorders  

The principal autonomic neurotransmitters, acetylcholine and noradrenaline, are involved in immune regulation in the context of inflammation through…

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| Higher Cortical Functions  

This important study is the first to present neuroanatomical evidence for transneuronal damage to functional homologues of the attention  network in…

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| Headache  

On 21 March 2017, several activities including a meeting in the European Parliament were organized. In addition, the European Headache Alliance have…

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| Stroke  

In the setting of haemorrhagic stroke, presence of intraventricular haemorrhage is a hallmark of poor prognosis with case-fatality up to 60%.1,2 Data…

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| Coordinating Panel on Rare Neurological Diseases  

On 28th February, the world celebrates the Rare Disease Day 2017, sponsored by Eurordis.

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| Palliative Care  

Over the past few years the Taskforce of the European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC) on neurology has been working on the writing of a…

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| Stroke  

The results of previous randomized trials, especially INTERACT-2, have shown that early intensive blood pressure lowering in patients with spontaneous…

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| Neurosonology  

Lochner et al. reported on the diagnostic applicability of ultrasonography in idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IH) or secondary intracranial…

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| Neurosonology  

Viski et al. reported on the effect of reading on blood flow changes in the posterior cerebral artery in early blind and sighted people using TCD.

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| Neurosonology  

Favaretto et al. explored in this study the diagnostic role of transcranial brain parenchyma sonography in detecting specific echogenic alterations of…

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| Neurosonology  

Rouco et al. present a new method that may improve the performance of previous approaches for the automatic detection of the common carotid artery…

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| Neurosonology  

Perren et al. compared in this study the diagnostic sensitivity of transcranial color-coded duplex (TCCD) sonography and the recently developed 3D…

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| Neurosonology  

Kargiotis et al. present their preliminary observations of consecutive ultrasound evaluations in 2 patients with acute encephalitis (presenting with…

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| Stroke  

The Enhanced Control of Hypertension and Thrombolysis Stroke Study (ENCHANTED) was driven by concerns about safety of intravenous alteplase in terms…

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| Stroke  

The International normalized ratio (INR) normalization in Coumadin-induced intracerebral haemorrhage (INCH) trial compared the effect of intravenous 4…

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| Autonomic nervous system disorders  

Faint or Syncope is the sudden loss of consciousness, associated with the inability to maintain postural tone followed by the immediate, spontaneous…

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| Stroke  

The multicentre, randomized-controlled Platelet Transfusion in Cerebral Haemorrhage (PATCH) study tested whether platelet transfusion could be…

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| Movement Disorders  

A Task Force was created by the International Parkinson and Movement Disorders Society in 2012 with the aim of analyzing apparent problems and…

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| All others  

This is a significant clinical-epidemiological 2001-2013 survey of neurodegenerative disease among the Auyu and Jaqai linguistic groups of Papua,…

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| Stroke  

In 2015 acute stroke therapy has taken an important step forward with a series of trials which have shown a better functional outcome of patients with…

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| Neurosonology  

1. Fibular nerve palsy after hip replacement: Not only surgeon responsibility. Hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies (HNPP) a rare…

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| Dementia and cognitive disorders  

A recent study published in Journal of Alzheimer's Disease has found that most, but not all, patients in Sweden diagnosed with dementia have their…

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| Neurosonology  

This retrospective study coming from Sands et al. highlights the incidence of acute isolated central facial palsy as manifestation of Middle Cerebral…

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| Infectious diseases  

Late Breaking News

Zika is a viral disease transmitted by Aedes Mosquitoes. There are multiple neurologic manifestationsof this condition. The South American epidemic…

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| Neuroimmunology  

The progress made over the past 15 years in the field of autoimmune encephalitis has transformed the diagnostic approach to these disorders and led to…

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| Neuroimaging  

The following updates were focused specifically on clinically relevant neuroimaging studies in patients with Parkinson’s disease and in migraine…

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| Stroke  

In 2015 acute stroke therapy has taken an important step forward with a series of trials which have shown a better functional outcome of patients with…

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| Palliative Care  

The Palliative Care Scientific Panel aims to encourage the development of palliative care for people with neurological disease.  There are increasing…

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| Neuro-ophthalmology and -otology  

Isolated ocular myasthenia gravis is often a diagnostic challenge, as most common ancillary tests, such as acetylcholine receptor autoantibodies and…

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| Epilepsy  

Brivaracetam was approved for adjunctive treatment of partial epilepsy with focal and secondary generalised seizures by the EMEA in January 2016.…

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| ALS and frontotemporal dementia  

In this work the therapeutic value of a diaphragm pacemaker  is examined on a trial in patients with amyothropic lateral sclerosis. Patients underwent…

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| ALS and frontotemporal dementia  

The current diagnostic criteria for ALS, the El Escorial Criteria, have met with criticism by the community (Agosta F, Al-Chalabi AFilippi MHardim…

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| Muscle & Neuromuscular Junction Disorders  

The use of statins in neurocardiovascular conditions has widely increased over the decades. Based on extension of indications major side effects of…

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| Coma & Chronic Disorders of Consciousness  

In the last decade, patients clinically diagnosed in the vegetative state who are able to perform mental imagery tasks [1-2] have been still…

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| Coordinating Panel on Rare Neurological Diseases | Higher Cortical Functions  

Advances in understanding memory mechanisms have crucial implications for cognitive neurology, and it is very good news that current studies combining…

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| Coordinating Panel on Rare Neurological Diseases | Autonomic nervous system disorders  

Searching for early biomarkers for alpha synucleinopathies, a recent study by Drahms et al. revealed that cardiac/vascular dysfunction in prodromal…

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| Coordinating Panel on Rare Neurological Diseases | Clinical neurophysiology  

Syncope is a frequent clinical presentation in neurology departments. This clinical event, situated at the border between neurology and cardiology, is…

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| Autonomic nervous system disorders  

Searching for early biomarkers for alpha synucleinopathies, a recent study by Drahms et al. revealed that cardiac/vascular dysfunction in prodromal α-…

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