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HSC Medicine, Dentistry and Healthcare Sciences Current Awareness Bulletins: Neurology

Neurology current awareness bulletin

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January 2026

Advancements in neurosurgical techniques for managing sports-related traumatic brain injuries

Ambient air pollution and the severity of Alzheimer disease neuropathology

Brain abnormalities in children exposed prenatally to the pesticide chlorpyrifos

Concurrent changes in plasma phosphorylated tau 217, tau PET, and cognition in preclinical Alzheimer disease

Early treatment with intravenous immunoglobulins and outcomes of patients with anti-IgLON5 disease

Five-year outcomes from deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus for Parkinson disease

Gadolinium-enhanced aneurysm wall imaging and risk of intracranial aneurysm growth or rupture

Head injury (updated NICE guidance QS74)

Home training for cerebellar ataxias: a randomized clinical trial

Image integrity issues create new headache for subarachnoid hemorrhage research

Influenza with and without oseltamivir treatment and neuropsychiatric events among children and adolescents

Long-term personalized adaptive deep brain stimulation in Parkinson disease: a nonrandomized clinical trial

Menopause impact on multiple sclerosis disability progression

Minimally invasive surgery vs medical management alone for intracerebral hemorrhage: the MIND randomized clinical trial

Multimodal neuroimaging of brain structure, metabolism, and function in obesity: current landscape and future perspectives

Plasma phosphorylated tau 217 to identify preclinical Alzheimer disease

Recognising and managing functional neurological disorder in the acute healthcare setting

Rehabilitation for chronic neurological disorders including acquired brain injury (new NICE guidance NG252)

Risk of future hemorrhage from unruptured brain arteriovenous malformations: the Multicenter Arteriovenous Malformation Research Study (MARS)

Seizure frequency trends over time in treatment-resistant focal epilepsy

Systemic increase of AMPA receptors associated with cognitive impairment of long COVID

Therapeutic management during pregnancy and relapse risk in women with multiple sclerosis

Transcutaneous peripheral nerve stimulation for essential tremor: a randomized clinical trial

Treatment response to antiseizure medications in people with newly diagnosed focal epilepsy

Sources

American Journal of Surgery (Dec); Brain Communications (Oct); Emergency Medicine Journal (Nov); JAMA Neurology (Oct-Dec); NICE website (Oct-Nov); Obesity (Oct); The Transmitter website (Oct)

November 2025

Ambroxol as a treatment for Parkinson disease dementia: a randomized clinical trial

Amyloid-beta pathology and cognitive performance in centenarians

APOE ε4 and risk of intracranial hemorrhage in patients with atrial fibrillation taking apixaban

Atypical diabetic neuropathies (BMJ)

Behavioral compared with drug therapy for overactive bladder symptoms in Parkinson disease: a randomized noninferiority trial

Childhood epilepsy (Lancet review)

Clinical and neuropathological evaluations of the New Brunswick neurological syndrome of unknown cause

Clinicoradiological profile of children presenting with global developmental delay and microcephaly

Computed tomography perfusion and angiography for death by neurologic criteria

Global, regional and national burdens of epilepsy in the adolescents and young adults from 1990 to 2021 and its predictions

Global, regional, and national burden of nontraumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage: the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

GLP-1 receptor agonists in idiopathic intracranial hypertension

Interstitial thermal therapy in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy

Maternal social determinants of health and risk of perinatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy

Metabolic brain changes in post-acute COVID-19: systematic review and meta-analysis of [18F]-FDG-PET findings

Omega‐3 fatty acid supplementation for distal symmetrical peripheral neuropathy in adults with diabetes mellitus (new Cochrane review)

Pain relief after surgical neurolysis in Gazan patients with peripheral nerve injuries: a report amidst the ongoing conflict

Prediction of late seizures after ischemic stroke using cognitive scores

Recent advances in neuroimaging of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias

Risk markers for sudden unexpected death in epilepsy: an observational, prospective, multicentre cohort study

Service delivery, behavioural, and self‐management interventions for adults with epilepsy (new Cochrane review)

Vesicular monoamine transport inhibitors: current uses and future directions

White matter abnormalities and cognition in aging and Alzheimer disease

Sources

Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Disease Association (Sep); BMC Neurology (Sep-Oct); BMJ (Oct); Brain Structure and Function (Aug); Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health (Jul-Aug); Cochrane Library (Sep-Oct); JAMA Neurology (Aug-Sep); Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery (Oct); Lancet (Aug-Oct); NEJM (Aug)

September 2025

Advancements in multiple sclerosis

Cannabis and cognitive function in multiple sclerosis: findings from a large consecutive clinical sample

Cenobamate for treating focal onset seizures in epilepsy (updated NICE guideline TA753)

Cerebral palsy (Lancet review)

Diagnostic and prognostic value of α-synuclein seed amplification assay kinetic measures in Parkinson's disease: a longitudinal cohort study

Efgartigimod for treating antibody-positive generalised myasthenia gravis (new NICE guideline TA1069)

Friedreich's ataxia—a rare multisystem disease

Headaches in over 12s: diagnosis and management (updated NICE guideline CG150)

Long-term neurological and cognitive impact of COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis in over 4 million patients

Management of reproductive risks in people with epilepsy

Neuroprotection of medical gases: a potential effect on treating cognitive impairments in neurological symptoms of long-COVID

Onset of sudden sensorineural hearing loss: an update

Prevalence of epilepsy in frontotemporal dementia and timing of dementia diagnosis

Radiomics across modalities: a comprehensive review of neurodegenerative diseases

The relationship between prediabetes and peripheral neuropathy—a systematic review and meta-analysis

Right C7 neurotomy at the intervertebral foramen plus intensive speech and language therapy versus intensive speech and language therapy alone for chronic post-stroke aphasia: multicentre, randomised controlled trial

Risk of Parkinson disease in individuals with autism spectrum disorder

Signs of intracranial hypertension in chronic inflammatory polyradiculoneuropathies

Stress-related brain alterations in chronic pain

Targeted muscle reinnervation for managing limb amputation pain (new NICE guideline IPG804)

Toward a tailored acoustic-based approach in music neuromodulation in epilepsy

Sources

Australian Journal of General Practice (Jul); BMC Neurology (Jun); BMJ, The (Jun); Clinical Radiology (Jun); European Journal of Neurology (Jul); European Journal of Pain (Jul); Internal Medicine Journal (Jun); JAMA Neurology (Jul); Lancet, The (Jul); Lancet Neurology, The (Jul); Medical Gas Research (Mar 2026); NICE website (Jun-Jul)

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