Reviews & Analysis

In this Perspective, the authors discuss the need for neurologists to assist in court cases involving criminal behaviour that was potentially influenced by a neurological disorder. The authors review evidence linking neurological disorders with criminal activity, and advocate for the development of forensic neurology as a subspecialty of the field.

Parkinson disease psychosis comprises a spectrum of illusions, hallucinations and delusions that emerge during the disease course. This Review considers clinical, neuroimaging and neurochemical evidence that might aid early identification of psychotic phenomena in people with Parkinson disease and inform new therapeutic strategies.

Autonomic nervous system dysregulation contributes to the chronic, debilitating disorders referred to as ‘long COVID’ or post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC). Here, Goldstein describes a multisystem, multidisciplinary approach to understanding PASC-induced alterations in feedback-regulated, plastic networks that determine homeostasis and allostasis.

Increasing evidence suggests that inflammasome activation contributes to disease progression in a wide variety of neurological conditions. In this Review, Ravichandran and Heneka discuss current understanding of inflammasome activation in neurological disorders and consider interventional strategies that target inflammasome activation.

This Review provides a comprehensive summary of the growing number of molecular therapies for the treatment of myasthenia gravis, including monoclonal antibodies, B cell-depleting agents and chimeric antigen receptor T cell-based therapies.

In this Perspective, Zech and Winkelmann outline multidimensional strategies for genetic diagnosis in patients with rare movement disorders and highlight community-driven data-sharing and case-matchmaking platforms designed to foster the discovery of new genotype–phenotype relationships.