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Surgical removal of hematoma in ICH, disparities in neurodiagnosis for epilepsy, inequities among female neurology researchers

Generative AI for personal statements, Match Day and neurology, AHS statement on CGRP-targeting therapies

ME/CFS and long COVID; negative outcomes for ALS drug; donanemab.

BTK inhibitors for MS, lecanemab, neurologic adverse effects and COVID vaccine

SARS-CoV-2 and dopamine neurons, valproate risks for men, neurologists on locum tenens

AI and 911 stroke detection,iatrogenic Alzheimer’s and human growth hormone, seizure dogs and refractory epilepsy

Biomarker for migraine; posterior cortical atrophy gene therapy for neuromuscular disorders

Cerebral amyloid angiopathy and nontraumatic subdural hemorrhage, AI for neurology boards, weight loss drugs and neurologic conditions

Rising incidence of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, therapy for prodromal migraine, neurotrauma of blast injury

Deep brain stimulation for TBI, antiseizure drugs and adaptive functioning, best advances of 2023.

Parkinson’s and suicide risk; biomarkers and underrepresentation in Alzheimer’s trials, immune system changes in ALS and Parkinson’s.

Serotonin and long COVID, Afib detected 3 years after stroke, Medicare on PET amyloid scans

A promising drug for refractory epilepsy; adverse childhood events and headache disorders; pathological engulfment by microglia in dementia.

Neurology Today Editor-in-chief Joseph E. Safdieh, MD, FAAN, discusses new research on the risk of spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhages after blood transfusions; the burden of long distance travel to see neurologists; and two promising biomarkers for ear

Blood pressure and endovascular therapy, cutbacks in neurology CME, blood test for Alzheimer’s

Football and Parkinson’s, deep brain stimulation for stroke recovery, neuroprostheses for anarthric patients

Medicare coverage of carotid stenting, disparities in vulnerable neuro-oncology patients, optical EMG for neuromuscular disorders.

Endovascular treatment and intracranial tumors; guideline on IVIG use for neuromuscular disorders, pros and cons of donanemab.

Oral health and cognitive decline; managing first-ever sleep seizures; growth of concierge neurology.