Welcome to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in neurology sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. In this episode, Igancio Mata, PhD, sat down to discuss a recently published meta-analysis on the genetic backgrounds of Parkinson disease beyond traditional European populations. Mata, an associate professor in the Genomic Medicine Institute at Cleveland Clinic, provided insight on the newly identified novel loci and how the data adds to previous...

Welcome to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in neurology sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. In this episode, Orrin Devinsky, MD, director of the NYU Langone Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, provided commentary on a recently published study assessing video evidence of sudden unexplained deaths in toddlers. Devinsky, who also serves as a professor of neurology, discussed the importance behind crib cams, the moments captured prior to the...

Welcome to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in neurology sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. In this episode, Cathleen Lutz, PhD, vice president of the Rare Disease Translational Center at the Jackson Laboratory, provided comment on a recently published study which unveiled that stathmin-2 loss leads to neurofilament-dependent axonal collapse in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Lutz offered insight on the role stathmin-2...

Welcome to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in neurology sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. In this episode, we comprised some of the most interesting conversations from Mind Moments podcast episodes in 2023, highlighting research in neurology that moves the field forward. The NeurologyLive team included several reaction episodes to FDA approved medicines, providing clinicians an overview of what they can expect from these new therapies...

Welcome to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in neurology sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. In this episode, Jennifer Gudeman, senior vice president of medical and clinical affairs for Avadel Pharmaceuticals, sat down to discuss a recently published post-hoc analysis of the phase 3 REST-ON trial of once-nightly sodium oxybate (Lumryz). In the conversation, Gudeman talked about the impact of the drug on both narcolepsy types 1 and 2, the...

Welcome to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in neurology sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. In this episode, William Gallentine, DO, interim chief of pediatric neurology at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health, who discussed several topics related to the advances in pediatric epilepsy, epilepsy surgery, and seizure localization. Gallentine, who also serves as a clinical professor, provided insight on the screening process and eligibility...

Welcome to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in neurology sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. In this episode, Brent Vaughan, chief executive officer of Cognito Therapeutics, provided insight on the mechanism of action behind the company's gamma sensory stimulation as a potential therapy for patients with Alzheimer disease. He spoke on the positive phase 2 OVERTURE study presented at the 2023 Clinical Trials on Alzheimer's Disease (CTAD)...

Welcome to this special episode of the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in neurology sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. For major FDA decisions in the field of neurology, we release short special episodes to offer a snapshot of the news, including the main takeaways for the clinical community, as well as highlights of the efficacy and safety profile of the agent in question. In this episode, we're covering the recent approval of vamorolone...

Welcome to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in neurology sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. In this episode, Alfonso Fasano, MD, PhD, professor of neurology at the University of Toronto and staff neurologist at Toronto Western Hospital, who spoke on the topic of neuromodulation in Parkinson disease and the potential targets clinicians should be learning about. He discussed the specific patient profiles who fit for neuromodulation, ways to...

Welcome to this special episode of the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in neurology sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. For major FDA decisions in the field of neurology, we release short special episodes to offer a snapshot of the news, including the main takeaways for the clinical community, as well as highlights of the efficacy and safety profile of the agent in question. In this episode, we're covering the recent approval of zilucoplan...

Welcome to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in neurology sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. In this episode, we spoke with a variety of specialists in neurology who presented research and gave talks at MSMilan, the joint ECTRIMS-ACTRIMS meeting, held October 11-13, in Milan, Italy. Those included in this week's episode, in order of appearance, are: Mitzi Joi Williams, MD, founder and chief executive officer of the Joi Life Wellness...

Welcome to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in neurology sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. In this episode, Gunter Hoglinger, MD, professor of neurology and translational neuroscientist at Ludwig Maximillian's University Munich, provided commentary on a newly initiated phase 3 study assessing AMX0035 (Relyrvio; Amylyx Pharmaceuticals) in patients with progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP). Otherwise known as the ORION trial, Hoglinger...

Welcome to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in neurology sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. In this episode, Birgitte R. Kornum, MD, an associate professor in the department of neuroscience at the University of Copenhagen, discussed recently published preclinical research assessing phenotypical features and disease progression of narcolepsy type 1. Kornum provided insight on the 2 mouse models used, the effectiveness of the DVC System,...

Welcome to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in neurology sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. In this episode, James Beck, PhD, senior vice president and chief scientific officer of the Parkinson's Foundation provided perspectives on a recently published Medicare claims study that highlighted major gaps and disparities in access to Parkinson disease care. He spoke on the significance of the findings, including the lack of movement disorder...

Welcome to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in neurology sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. In this episode, Nicole Fowler, PhD, director of research for internal medicine and geriatrics at Indiana University School of Medicine, discussed the DAVOS Alzheimer's Collaborative DIGITAL Demonstration Project, an initiative to help understand the feasibility, acceptability, and implementation of digital cognitive screening tools in primary care...

Welcome to this special episode of the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in neurology sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. For major FDA decisions in the field of neurology, we release short special episodes to offer a snapshot of the news, including the main takeaways for the clinical community, as well as highlights of the efficacy and safety profile of the agent in question. In this episode, we're covering the recent expanded indication of...

Welcome to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in neurology sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. In this episode, Thomas Crawford, MD, a pediatric neurologist at Johns Hopkins Medicine, spoke on the recently published 5-year analysis of the NURTURE study (NCT02386553), a long-term trial assessing the efficacy and safety of nusinersen (Spinraza; Biogen) in presymptomatic infants with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). Crawford discussed the...

Welcome to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in neurology sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. This episode features an in-depth dive into the recent approval of lecanemab (Leqembi; Eisai) for Alzheimer disease and the ongoing debate about its potential benefit, the amyloid-targeting class of medicines, and the communication of data. Featured in this episode is commentary from 2 experts in neurology clinical care: Anton P. Porsteinsson, MD,...

Welcome to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in neurology sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. In this episode, we spoke with Jill Farmer, DO, MPH, an assistant professor of neurology and director of the Parkinson’s Disease & Movement Disorder Program at Global Neurosciences Institute, who spoke with us about the current landscape of care for women with Parkinson disease (PD), how the approach to their care can differ from men, the major...

Welcome to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in neurology sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. In this episode, we spoke with a variety of specialists in neurology who presented research and gave talks at 4 recent major medical meetings—the Consortium of MS Centers Annual Meeting, the Annual Joint SLEEP Meeting, the Advanced Therapeutics in Movement and Related Disorders Congress, and the American Headache Society’s Annual Scientific...

Welcome to this special episode of the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in neurology sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. For major FDA decisions in the field of neurology, we release short special episodes to offer a snapshot of the news, including the main takeaways for the clinical community, as well as highlights of the efficacy and safety profile of the agent in question. In this episode, we're covering the recent approval of SRP-9001, or...

Welcome to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in neurology sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. In this episode, we spoke with Ann Marie Morse, DO, FAAN, a pediatric neurologist and sleep medicine specialist at Geisinger Medical Center, who sat down with NeurologyLive at the annual SLEEP meeting to discuss the landscape of challenges narcolepsy-related challenges that patients face, the influence of gut health on sleep apnea, how nighttime...

Welcome to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in neurology sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. In this episode, we spoke with Brandon Giglio, MD, a vascular neurologist and clinical assistant professor of neurology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, as well as the director of Vascular Neurology at NYU Langone Hospital in Brooklyn, New York. As May is annually designated as Stroke Awareness Month in the United States, Giglio sat down with us...

Welcome to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in neurology sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. In this episode, we spoke with James Berry, MD, PhD, director of the Massachusetts General Hospital ALS Care Center. At the 2023 American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting, he spoke about new data from a study assessing CNM-Au8, a nanocrystal formulation in development for patients with ALS and other neurological diseases. Additionally, he talked...

Welcome to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments® podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in neurology sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. In this episode, we spoke with a variety of specialists in neurology who presented research and gave talks at the 75th American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting, held April 22-27, 2023, in Boston, Massachusetts. Those included in this week's episode, in order of appearance, are: Michael H. Barnett, MBBS, PhD, FRACP, a consultant...