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In this Perspectives article, Jan Lünemann and colleagues discuss the potential of immune reconstitution therapies to induce remission in individuals with multiple sclerosis. They highlight our limited understanding of the mechanisms underlying this remission and suggest future areas of research.
Migraine is one of the world’s most prevalent diseases, and approximately 2% of the general population experiences chronic migraine. Edvinsson and colleagues argue that inflammation could have an important role in migraine chronification, through a mechanism termed neurogenic neuroinflammation.
Paterson and colleagues describe how stable isotope labelling kinetics (SILK) can be used to determine protein production and clearance rates. They highlight the promise of SILK studies for elucidating the role of pathogenic proteins in neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer disease.
In the future, robotic devices that augment human care provision could transform dementia services and support. In this Perspectives article, Moyle discusses upcoming challenges in dementia care and suggests guidelines for the development and integration of smart assistive technologies.
Here, Bouthour et al. argue that the success of closed-loop deep brain stimulation based on electrophysiological biomarkers in patients with Parkinson disease could inspire novel treatments for other neuropsychiatric disorders in which symptoms are driven by pathological activity in motor, cognitive and limbic brain networks.
The opioid crisis constitutes a public health challenge at the intersection of two interrelated medical problems — opioid addiction and chronic pain. In this Perspectives article, Volkow and Koroschetz discuss how neurologists are uniquely positioned to help address the opioid crisis.
In this Perspectives article, Smith et al. address the misconceptions about the clinical and pathological features of chronic traumatic encephalopathy that cause confusion and controversy not only in the public but also among health-care professionals.
