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Patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) are at increased risk for most types of infection, with the highest risk associated with renal tract infections, according to an analysis of USA Department of Defense data.

Playing table tennis, also known as ping-pong, appears to improve motor symptoms in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD), new research suggests.

A new retrospective study using linked administrative databases in Ontario, Canada, identified 97,965 adolescents (11 to 18 years old) who suffered a concussion at ⩾1 and presented to an emergency department between 1992 and 2011. Cases were matched 1:3 with people who had not suffered a concussion based on age, sex, address, and index date. The...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a multifocal inflammatory disease that involves the central nervous system and associated with limbs paralysis and serious problems in sensation, limbs, visual and sphincter. This disease is a result of autoimmune mechanism in which autoantibodies target the self-myelin antigens and cause demyelination. Because of the...

A new potential neuroprotectant agent has been found to be beneficial for patients with acute ischemic stroke undergoing endovascular thrombectomy in a large placebo-controlled trial, but only for those patients who did not also receive thrombolysis.

Remyelination following CNS demyelination restores rapid signal propagation and protects axons; however, its efficiency declines with increasing age. Both intrinsic changes in the oligodendrocyte progenitor cell population and extrinsic factors in the lesion microenvironment of older subjects contribute to this decline. Microglia and...

Migraine is one of the most common neurological disorders that leads to disabilities. However, the conventional drug therapy for migraine might be unsatisfactory at times. In a new meta-analysis published recently aimed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of calcitonin-gene-related peptide binding monoclonal antibody (CGRP mAb) for the preventive...

In a new study with nearly 3000 people, those with diabetic retinopathy were 60% more likely than others with diabetes to develop an incident stroke over time. Investigators also found that addressing glucose, lipids, and blood pressure levels did not mitigate this risk in this secondary analysis of the ACCORD Eye Study.

After conducting an updated systematic review and meta-analysis of the association between sleep and all-cause cognitive impairment, the authors of the article Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry 2020;91:236-244 came to the following conclusions

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