Ileana M. Howard MD, Suma Babu MBBS, MPH, Chelsey Carter PhD, MPH, Stacey A. Sakowski PhD, Jerome E. Kurent MD, MS, MPH, Merit E. Cudkowicz MD, MSC, Eva L. Feldman MD, PhD
{"title":"Priorities and Recommendations to Make ALS a Livable Disease Emanating from the 2024 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Report Living with ALS","authors":"Ileana M. Howard MD, Suma Babu MBBS, MPH, Chelsey Carter PhD, MPH, Stacey A. Sakowski PhD, Jerome E. Kurent MD, MS, MPH, Merit E. Cudkowicz MD, MSC, Eva L. Feldman MD, PhD","doi":"10.1002/ana.27097","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ana.27097","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a relentless, fatal neurodegenerative disease. The progressive loss of voluntary muscle function, diagnostic delays, lack of effective treatments, and challenges accessing multidisciplinary care and resources have tremendous impact on quality of life. The congressionally directed ALS committee of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, in their 2024 report “Living with ALS,” recommends critical actions for specific United States stakeholders to make ALS a livable disease over the next decade. This review summarizes the context and recommendations of the report. Advocacy efforts are critical to make these recommendations a reality for the ALS community. ANN NEUROL 2024;96:1035–1039</p>","PeriodicalId":127,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Neurology","volume":"96 6","pages":"1035-1039"},"PeriodicalIF":8.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11563851/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142398802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gretel Sanabria-Diaz, Alessandro Cagol, Po-Jui Lu, Muhamed Barakovic, Mario Ocampo-Pineda, Xinjie Chen, Matthias Weigel, Esther Ruberte, Nina de Oliveira S Siebenborn, Riccardo Galbusera, Sabine Schädelin, Pascal Benkert, Jens Kuhle, Ludwig Kappos, Lester Melie-Garcia, Cristina Granziera
{"title":"Advanced MRI Measures of Myelin and Axon Volume Identify Repair in Multiple Sclerosis.","authors":"Gretel Sanabria-Diaz, Alessandro Cagol, Po-Jui Lu, Muhamed Barakovic, Mario Ocampo-Pineda, Xinjie Chen, Matthias Weigel, Esther Ruberte, Nina de Oliveira S Siebenborn, Riccardo Galbusera, Sabine Schädelin, Pascal Benkert, Jens Kuhle, Ludwig Kappos, Lester Melie-Garcia, Cristina Granziera","doi":"10.1002/ana.27102","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ana.27102","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Pathological studies suggest that multiple sclerosis (MS) lesions endure multiple waves of damage and repair; however, the dynamics and characteristics of these processes are poorly understood in patients living with MS.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We studied 128 MS patients (75 relapsing-remitting, 53 progressive) and 72 healthy controls who underwent advanced magnetic resonance imaging and clinical examination at baseline and 2 years later. Magnetization transfer saturation and multi-shell diffusion imaging were used to quantify longitudinal changes in myelin and axon volumes within MS lesions. Lesions were grouped into 4 classes (repair, damage, mixed repair damage, and stable). The frequency of each class was correlated to clinical measures, demographic characteristics, and levels of serum neurofilament light chain (sNfL).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Stable lesions were the most frequent (n = 2,276; 44%), followed by lesions with patterns of \"repair\" (n = 1,352; 26.2%) and damage (n = 1,214; 23.5%). The frequency of \"repair\" lesion was negatively associated with disability (β = -0.04; p < 0.001) and sNfL (β = -0.16; p < 0.001) at follow-up. The frequency of the \"damage\" class was higher in progressive than relapsing-remitting patients (p < 0.05) and was related to disability (baseline: β = -0.078; follow-up: β = -0.076; p < 0.001) and age (baseline: β = -0.078; p < 0.001). Stable lesions were more frequent in relapsing-remitting than in progressive patients (p < 0.05), and in younger patients versus older (β = -0.07; p < 0.001) at baseline. Further, \"mixed\" lesions were most frequent in older patients (β = 0.004; p < 0.001) at baseline.</p><p><strong>Interpretation: </strong>These findings show that repair and damage processes within MS lesions occur across the entire disease spectrum and that their frequency correlates with patients disability, age, disease duration, and extent of neuroaxonal damage. ANN NEUROL 2024.</p>","PeriodicalId":127,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Neurology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11683175/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142398800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sofie Sunebo MD, Hanna Appelqvist PhD, Bo Häggqvist PhD, Olof Danielsson MD, PhD
{"title":"Reply to “Letter on Multiple Acyl-Coenzyme A Dehydrogenase Deficiency Is Associated with Sertraline Use”","authors":"Sofie Sunebo MD, Hanna Appelqvist PhD, Bo Häggqvist PhD, Olof Danielsson MD, PhD","doi":"10.1002/ana.27106","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ana.27106","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":127,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Neurology","volume":"96 5","pages":"1032-1033"},"PeriodicalIF":8.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142453970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ronan A Mooney, Manuel A Anaya, Joan M Stilling, Pablo A Celnik
{"title":"Heightened Reticulospinal Excitability after Severe Corticospinal Damage in Chronic Stroke.","authors":"Ronan A Mooney, Manuel A Anaya, Joan M Stilling, Pablo A Celnik","doi":"10.1002/ana.27103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ana.27103","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>After severe corticospinal tract damage poststroke in humans, some recovery of strength and movement proximally is evident. It is possible that alternate motor pathways, such as the reticulospinal tract, may be upregulated to compensate for the loss of corticospinal tract input. We investigated the extent of reticulospinal tract excitability modulation and its inter-dependence on the severity of corticospinal tract damage after stroke in humans.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We used a novel startle conditioned transcranial magnetic stimulation paradigm to elicit ipsilateral motor evoked potentials, an index of reticulospinal tract excitability, in 22 chronic stroke participants with mild to severe corticospinal tract damage and 14 neurotypical age-matched controls.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We found that ipsilateral motor evoked potential presence was higher in the paretic arm of people with severe corticospinal tract damage compared to their non-paretic arm, people with mild corticospinal tract damage, and age-matched controls. Interestingly, ipsilateral motor evoked potential presence was correlated with motor impairment across the entire stroke cohort, whereby individuals with worse impairment exhibited more frequent ipsilateral motor evoked potentials (ie, higher reticulospinal tract excitability).</p><p><strong>Interpretation: </strong>Following severe corticospinal tract damage, upregulated reticulospinal tract activity may compensate for a loss of corticospinal tract input, providing some proximal recovery of isolated and within-synergy movements, but deficits in performing out of synergy movements and finger fractionation remain. Interventions aimed at modulating the reticulospinal tract could be beneficial or detrimental to ameliorating motor impairment depending on the degree of reliance on this pathway for residual motor output. ANN NEUROL 2024.</p>","PeriodicalId":127,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Neurology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142453962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Noemi Montobbio, Cinzia Cordioli, Alessio Signori, Francesca Bovis, Ruggero Capra, Maria Pia Sormani
{"title":"Relapse-Associated and Relapse-Independent Contribution to Overall Expanded Disability Status Scale Progression in Multiple Sclerosis Patients Diagnosed in Different Eras.","authors":"Noemi Montobbio, Cinzia Cordioli, Alessio Signori, Francesca Bovis, Ruggero Capra, Maria Pia Sormani","doi":"10.1002/ana.27093","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ana.27093","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The introduction of disease-modifying therapies for multiple sclerosis (MS) has led to a deceleration of disease course over the years. Although decreased relapse rate constitutes a factor, the role of relapse-associated worsening (RAW) and progression independent of relapse activity (PIRA) in MS course deceleration is still unclear.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We retrospectively examined long-term Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) progression in patients referred to the MS Center of Montichiari (Italy) and diagnosed with relapsing-remitting MS from 1980 to 2022. To isolate PIRA, we deducted all EDSS changes associated with relapses from overall EDSS change. We compared the relative contribution of PIRA and RAW to EDSS progression in patients diagnosed in different periods using mixed-effects models.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 1,405 patients were included in the study, of whom 231 were diagnosed in 1980-1996 (pre-treatment era), 577 in 1997-2008 (injectable disease-modifying therapy era), and 597 after 2008 (oral drugs, monoclonal antibodies, and anti-CD20 era). Across ages, both PIRA and RAW were reduced in patients diagnosed in more recent periods as compared with earlier periods. The average contribution of PIRA to overall EDSS progression was already predominant in patients diagnosed in 1980-1996 (78%) and in 1997-2008 (76%), but it was significantly increased (p = 0.0009) in patients diagnosed in later years (87%).</p><p><strong>Interpretation: </strong>The deceleration of MS course observed throughout the years is determined not only by fewer RAW events, but also by a reduction in PIRA. However, the shift toward a mostly relapse-independent progression highlights the importance of evaluating new therapies based on their effect on PIRA. ANN NEUROL 2024.</p>","PeriodicalId":127,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Neurology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11683181/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142386588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Letter on Multiple Acyl-Coenzyme A Dehydrogenase Deficiency is Associated with Sertraline Use","authors":"Yusen Qiu, Min Zhu, Dandan Tan, Daojun Hong","doi":"10.1002/ana.27101","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ana.27101","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":127,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Neurology","volume":"96 5","pages":"1031-1032"},"PeriodicalIF":8.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142386586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reply to “MuSK-Myasthenia Gravis and Cancer”","authors":"Silvia Falso MD, Raffaele Iorio MD, PhD","doi":"10.1002/ana.27091","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ana.27091","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":127,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Neurology","volume":"96 5","pages":"1030-1031"},"PeriodicalIF":8.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142370358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jodie Naim-Feil PhD, Rachel E. Stirling PhD, Philippa J. Karoly PhD, Daniel Payne PhD, Nicholas Winterling MEng, Dominique Eden BEng(Hons), Mark J. Cook MBBS, MD, David B. Grayden PhD, Matias Maturana PhD, Dean R. Freestone PhD, Ewan S. Nurse PhD
{"title":"Pro-Ictal EEG Scheduling Improves the Yield of Epilepsy Monitoring: Validating the Use of Multiday Seizure Cycles to Optimize Video-EEG Timing","authors":"Jodie Naim-Feil PhD, Rachel E. Stirling PhD, Philippa J. Karoly PhD, Daniel Payne PhD, Nicholas Winterling MEng, Dominique Eden BEng(Hons), Mark J. Cook MBBS, MD, David B. Grayden PhD, Matias Maturana PhD, Dean R. Freestone PhD, Ewan S. Nurse PhD","doi":"10.1002/ana.27078","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ana.27078","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Objective</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>A significant challenge of video-electroencephalography (vEEG) in epilepsy diagnosis is timing monitoring sessions to capture epileptiform activity. In this study, we introduce and validate “pro-ictal EEG scheduling”, a method to schedule vEEG monitoring to coincide with periods of increased seizure likelihood as a low-risk approach to enhance the diagnostic yield.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Methods</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>A database of long-term ambulatory vEEG monitoring sessions (n = 5,038) of adults and children was examined. Data from linked electronic seizure diaries were extracted (minimum 10 self-reported events) to generate cycle-based estimates of seizure risk. In adults, vEEG monitoring sessions coinciding with periods of estimated high-risk were allocated to the high-risk group (n = 305) and compared to remaining studies (baseline: n = 3,586). Test of proportions and risk-ratios (RR) were applied to index differences in proportions and likelihood of capturing outcome measures (abnormal report, confirmed seizure, and diary event) during monitoring. The impact of clinical and demographic factors (age, sex, epilepsy-type, and medication) was also explored.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Results</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>During vEEG monitoring, the high-risk group was significantly more likely to have an abnormal vEEG report (190/305:62% vs 1,790/3,586:50% [%change = 12%], RR = 1.25, 95% confidence interval [CI] = [1.137–1.370], <i>p</i> < 0.001), present with a confirmed seizure (56/305:18% vs 424/3,586:11% [%change = 7%], RR = 1.63, 95% CI = [1.265–2.101], <i>p</i> < 0.001) and report an event (153/305:50% vs 1,267/3,586:35% (%change = 15%), RR = 1.420, 95% CI = [1.259:1.602], <i>p</i> < 0.001). Similar effects were observed across clinical and demographic features.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Interpretation</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study provides the first large-scale validation of pro-ictal EEG scheduling in improving the yield of vEEG. This innovative approach offers a pragmatic and low-risk strategy to enhance the diagnostic capabilities of vEEG monitoring, significantly impacting epilepsy management. ANN NEUROL 2024;96:1148–1159</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":127,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Neurology","volume":"96 6","pages":"1148-1159"},"PeriodicalIF":8.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ana.27078","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142337705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}