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NeurologyLive® Mind Moments™ podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in neurology sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice.
In this episode, we spoke with a number of individuals who presented data and spoke at the Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers Annual Meeting, on topics ranging from the examination of longitudinal patterns of difficulty initiating sleep and their associations with subsequent memory trajectories among different races and genders, JZP-258’s impact on the treatment of patients with idiopathic hypersomnia, and the understanding of the signs and risks associated with sleep disorders and Alzheimer disease.
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Those featured include (in order of appearance):
- Afsara Zaheed, graduate student, University of Michigan
- Richard Bogan, MD, FCCP, FAASM, associate clinical professor, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, and associate clinical professor, Medical University of South Carolina
- Ruth Benca, MD, PhD, professor and chair, Psychiatry & Human Behavior, Wake Forest School of Medicine
Episode Breakdown:
- 1:30 – Afsara Zaheed on the longitudinal patterns of difficulties initiating sleep, the associations with subsequent memory trajectories, and whether associations differ across non-Hispanic Black and White men and women.
- 6:00 – Richard Bogan, MD, FCCP, FAASM, on two post hoc analyses that explored treatment response for low-sodium oxybate based on the 14-item Idiopathic Hypersomnia Severity Scale and the 8-item, self-reported Epworth Sleepiness Scale.
- 12:05 – Ruth Benca, MD, PhD, on the precursor sleep issues to Alzheimer disease, the differences in sex and race, and the critical need to treat sleep disorders early as possible.
