touchNEUROLOGY highlights from MDS 2019 – Day 2

The International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society (MDS) is a professional society of clinicians, scientists, and other healthcare professionals, who are interested in Parkinson’s disease, related neurodegenerative and neurodevelopmental disorders, hyperkinetic movement disorders, and abnormalities in muscle tone and motor control. touchNEUROLOGY caught up with the MDS President, Prof. Francisco Cardoso, to discuss the upcoming […]

Ecopipam is an investigational first-in-class drug being evaluated for the treatment of children and adolescents with Tourette’s syndrome. Prof. Donald Gilbert (Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Centre, Cincinnati, OH, USA) discusses the randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase 2b study investigating ecopipam.  The abstract entitled ‘Ecopipam in Children and Adolescents with Tourette Syndrome: Results from a Randomized, Double-Blind, […]

Functional neurological symptoms have been observed in young people globally during the COVID-19 pandemic, presenting with rapid onset of complex motor and vocal tic-like behaviours. Dr Davide Martino (Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada) discusses the rise in tic-like behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic and what registry studies taught us about interventions of […]