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Study offers new clues to how Rett syndrome affects sound processing

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By Marisa Wexler Verified
| rettsyndromenews.com
Stimulating the vagus nerve — a large nerve that helps control unconscious bodily functions — partly normalized some measures of sound-related brain activity in a rat model of Rett syndrome, a new study reports. Although vagus nerve stimulation, or VNS, improved some measures of sound-related brain activity, including how consistently the rats’ brains responded to repeated sounds, it had little or no effect on several other measures.
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Long-term study finds no new safety concerns with Dravet therapy

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By Marisa Wexler Verified
| Dravet Syndrome News Verified
No new or unexpected safety issues were identified in a long-term study that tracked outcomes in people with Dravet syndrome taking the antiseizure medication Fintepla (fenfluramine). Of 265 people with Dravet syndrome, only about one in 10 experienced a side effect that investigators judged to be related to Fintepla, and only one experienced a serious treatment-related side effect.
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Learning new skills could promote myelin repair in MS patients

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By Marisa Wexler Verified
| Multiple Sclerosis News Today Verified
Rehabilitation strategies aimed at learning new skills may promote myelin repair in people with multiple sclerosis (MS), said scientists, who called for more research to test these strategies and determine the best way to deploy them. The international team provided an overview of what’s currently known about how rehab might facilitate myelin repair, highlighted unanswered questions, and offered suggestions for future research.
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