In a trial of nondepressed patients with recent stoke, those who received escitalopram or problem-solving therapy were less likely to develop depression. Medscape Medical News
New topline results suggest that once-daily therapy with oral teriflunomide is comparable to treatment with interferon beta-1a for multiple sclerosis. Medscape Medical News
Researchers have uncovered a genetic defect in the histidine decarboxylase gene that may underlie Tourette?s syndrome in a 2-generation pedigree. Medscape Medical News
Microvascular decompression is a durable "rescue" procedure for persistent or recurrent trigeminal neuralgia after gamma knife radiosurgery, although numbness and dysesthesias appear more common than MVD alone. Medscape Medical News