Conference Coverage
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Conference Coverage
Headache Trajectories Differ Five Years After TBI
BOSTON—Over five years after traumatic brain injury (TBI), a relatively large (24% to 30%) group of individuals experience chronic headache pain...
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Conference Coverage
Pooled Analysis Clarifies VNS Efficacy in Cluster Headache
BOSTON—Noninvasive vagal nerve stimulation (VNS) is well tolerated and effectively aborts episodic cluster headache attacks, according to a pooled...
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Conference Coverage
A Migraineur’s Headache Frequency Varies Over Time
BOSTON—Patients with migraine may have greater fluctuation in headache frequency than was previously understood. The rate of transition from...
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Conference Coverage
Deutetrabenazine Improves Tardive Dyskinesia
VANCOUVER—Deutetrabenazine provides clinically significant reductions in involuntary movements of tardive dyskinesia, according to a study...
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Conference Coverage
Amyloid PET May Influence Care of Patients With Cognitive Problems
LONDON—Amyloid PET imaging may change the care plan for a large proportion of patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or dementia, according...
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Conference Coverage
What New Therapies for Parkinson’s Disease Are on the Horizon?
HILTON HEAD, SC—Many new treatments for Parkinson’s disease are in the pipeline, according to a lecture given at the 40th Annual Contemporary...
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Conference Coverage
How Can Neurologists Use Alzheimer’s Disease Biomarkers in Clinical Practice?
LONDON—The Alzheimer’s Biomarkers in Daily Practice (ABIDE) project may help neurologists to choose diagnostic tests, select proper treatment, and...
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Conference Coverage
Can Targeting Risk Factors Avert Dementia?
LONDON—Nine modifiable risk factors may account for about a third of dementia cases, according to an estimate by the Lancet International...
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Conference Coverage
Standard Assessments May Miss Psychotic Symptoms in Patients With Parkinson’s Disease
VANCOUVER—Standard clinical assessments of Parkinson’s disease psychosis may miss more than half of psychotic symptoms, according to research...
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Conference Coverage
Short Sleep Duration Increases the Risk of All-Cause Mortality
BOSTON—Insomnia with objective short sleep duration (ie, less than six hours) is not associated with an elevated risk of all-cause mortality,...
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Conference Coverage
Patients With Dementia With Lewy Bodies May Have Unfavorable Hospital Outcomes
VANCOUVER—Patients with dementia with Lewy bodies have a high rate of hospitalization for hallucinations or confusion, falls, and infection,...
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Conference Coverage
Investigational Drug May Effectively Treat Wilson’s Disease
VANCOUVER—The investigational agent bis-choline tetrathiomolybdate (WTX101) may help treat Wilson’s disease, according to a study presented at the...
Literature Review
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Literature Review
Model Predicts Outcomes After AED Withdrawal
An evidence-based model allows neurologists to predict individual patient outcomes following the withdrawal of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs),...
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Literature Review
Cannabidiol Changes Serum Levels of Antiepileptic Drugs
The pharmaceutical formulation of cannabidiol (CBD) is associated with significant changes in serum levels of clobazam, rufinamide, topiramate,...
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Literature Review
Study Details CTE in Football Players
In a case series of 202 former football players whose brains were donated for research, 87% of the participants had neuropathologic evidence of...
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Literature Review
Headache May Be Independent of Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension
Headache in idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) appears to be clinically independent of raised intracranial pressure and may require a...
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Literature Review
Can Today’s Stress Level Predict Tomorrow’s Migraine Attack?
Neurologists and patients may be able to predict migraine attacks using a model based on the level of stress from daily hassles, according to...
Patient Information
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Patient Information
Tips for Living With Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar disorder is characterized by chronic fluctuation between mania (highs) and depression (lows). It also causes unusual shifts in energy,...
News Roundup
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News Roundup
New and Noteworthy Information—September 2017
Less than half of patients with stroke discharged from the hospital receive a prescription for statins, and the likelihood of a prescription...