A 30-minute, automated, iPad-based NIH Toolbox Cognitive Battery may offer some key advantages over gold standard tools, with automated scoring that accounts for race/ethnicity.
Paleolithic elimination and low-saturated fat diets are associated with improvements in fatigue, cognitive dysfunction, and quality of life in patients with multiple sclerosis, new research suggests.
A new indirect comparison of three new FDA-approved treatment options for aquaporin4+ neuromyelitis optica has suggested that eculizumab is the most effective. But many limitations have been raised.
High serum levels of neurofilament light are associated with an increased risk for disease progression at 2 years. Clinical, MRI, and OCT measures are not associated with this risk, however.
In a recent study of patients with early relapsing-remitting MS or clinically isolated syndrome, almost two thirds of confirmed disability accumulation occurred independently of relapses.