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Adults with generalized myasthenia gravis who are anti-acetylcholine receptor antibody positive now have a second self-administration option for the complement inhibitor zilucoplan.
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Treatment does not end with a prescription. The panel closes by examining who owns follow-up care, and why caregivers remain the true cornerstone of managing Alzheimer's agitation over time.
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CONCLUSIONS: Higher symptom scores were associated with poorer quality of life. Findings are exploratory and do not establish diagnostic or causal relationships.
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Epilepsy is one of the most common chronic neurological disorders worldwide, affecting millions of individuals and imposing a substantial cognitive, psychological, social, and economic burden. Despite significant advances in epilepsy research, key questions remain unresolved regarding the mechanisms underlying drug resistance, cognitive impairment, depression, and sudden unexpected death in epilepsy, as well as the contribution of recurrent seizures in promoting neuronal and glial injury....
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Bang sensitivity (BS) is a well-characterized seizure-and-paralysis phenotype in Drosophila melanogaster, but its genetic basis remains unexamined in the phylogenetically distant sister species Drosophila funebris. Here, we identify a naturally occurring BS strain in D. funebris from a wild population near Lake Valday, characterized by acute mechanical shock-induced seizures and paralysis, and examine its molecular-genetic and lipidomic basis. Comparative transcriptomics identified 241...
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