neurology
4 stories tagged "neurology"
Takeda Fixed the Narcolepsy Drug That Was Poisoning Livers. Now You Can't Buy It.
Oveporexton is the first drug to replace the orexin signal narcolepsy destroys, instead of stimulating around a tired brain. At the higher dose it leaves 60 percent of patients newly insomniac, and it still has to clear DEA scheduling before it reaches a pharmacy shelf.
Brain & AgingAnti-Tau Alzheimer's Drugs Keep Hitting Their Target and Missing the Disease
Tau is the new headliner at the Alzheimer's conference, but the anti-tau antibodies keep proving they bind the protein while doing nothing for patients. The clearest win so far is a blood test.
Brain & AgingFor Decades They Treated This Stroke Like a Clog. The Arteries Were Actually Too Wide.
People with widened brain arteries were four times more likely to have had a lacunar stroke, the type doctors have treated for decades as if it were a clog.
Brain & AgingTwelve Genes, One Overlooked Neuron, and the Rett Brain That Was Already Off Course
A Baylor team's single-cell map of female Rett mice finds 12 dysregulated genes and a previously unsuspected vulnerable interneuron, weeks before any symptom appears.