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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| Rare Neurological Diseases  

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

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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Created by Boziki Marina Kleopatra, MD, MSc, PhD

| COVID-19 | Rare Neurological Diseases  

Rare Neurological Diseases in the COVID-19 era: Suggestions for information to patients and caregivers

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

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Created by Antonio FEDERICO, on behalf of the Managing Committee Members (M. De Visser, G. Plazzi, A. Arsovska, K. Bhatia, JM Burgunder, A. Toscano)

| Coma & Chronic Disorders of Consciousness | Rare Neurological Diseases  

Treating Disorders of Consciousness With Apomorphine: a Clinical Trial Using Multimodal Assessments

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

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Created by Leandro R. D. Sanz, Nicolas Lejeune, Séverine Blandiaux, Estelle Bonin, Aurore Thibaut, Johan Stender, Neal Farber, Ross Zafonte, Nicholas D. Schiff, Steven Laureys, Olivia Gosseries

| Rare Neurological Diseases | Sleep disorders  

Better understanding of RLS and narcolepsy neurobiology

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

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Created by Prof. Stefan Seidel, MD; Department of Neurology, Medical University of Vienna

| Infectious diseases | Rare Neurological Diseases  

Nodding syndrome proved to be a tauopathy

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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Created by Tamar Akhvlediani, MD, PhD, Georgian Union of Neurologists, Georgia

| Epilepsy | Rare Neurological Diseases  

Progress in understanding the genetics of epilepsies

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

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Created by Prof. Konrad Rejdak, Department of Neurology; Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland

| Neurocritical care | Rare Neurological Diseases  

An ignored rare condition in neurointensive unit; heparin induced thrombocytopenia

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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Created by Serefnur Ozturk- Selcuk University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Konya-Turkey

| ALS and frontotemporal dementia | Rare Neurological Diseases  

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

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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Created by Prof. Andrew Eisen, Vancouver

| Palliative Care | Rare Neurological Diseases  

Collaboration between Palliative care and Neurology

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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Created by Professor David Oliver, University of Kent, Co-Chair of Palliative Care Panel

| Neuroimmunology | Rare Neurological Diseases  

Stopping faciobrachial dystonic seizures can prevent the development of cognitive impairment in people with antibodies to leucine-rich glioma-inactivated 1 and limbic encephalitis

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

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Created by Radu Tanasescu Academic Clinical Neurology, Division of Clinical Neuroscience, University of Nottingham, UK & Maarten Titulaer Department of Neurology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam - The Netherlands

| Rare Neurological Diseases | Pain  

Novel Treatment for Trigeminal Neuralgia

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

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Created by Martin Rakusa1, 2, Sofia Gak2, Nadine Attal2,3, Giorgio Cruccu2, 4 1Department of Neurology, University Medical Centre Maribor, Slovenia. 2 EAN Scientific Panel Pain, Vienna, Austria. 3INSERM U-987, Centre d'Evaluation et de Traitement de la Douleur, Hôp

| Muscle & Neuromuscular Junction Disorders | Rare Neurological Diseases  

New treatments in Spinal Muscular Atrophy

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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Created by Toscano, Schoser and others