Parkinson’s Tied to Common Chemical; Injectable Brain Implants; Migraine Drug Recall

Research suggested that trichloroethylene (TCE), an industrial solvent used in dry cleaning clothing and degreasing metal parts, was linked to Parkinson’s disease. (Journal of Parkinson’s Disease)

Racial and ethnic disparities in Parkinson’s disease diagnosis, treatment, and research spurred a call to action. (Neurology Clinical Practice)

Older adults with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia had higher hospital readmission rates and costs than those without dementia. (JAMA Network Open)

Researchers designed a gel that solidified into an electrically conductive polymer when injected into zebra fish brain tissue as an alternative to implanted electrodes. (Wired)

Wearable microscopes produced high-definition, real-time images of mouse spinal cord activity. (Nature Communications)

Brain donors exposed to football-related repetitive head impacts had decreased myelin proteins, which corresponded with the age at which they first started playing football. (Brain Communications)

Criteria for pediatric patients with silent central nervous system demyelination on MRI may not be sufficient to detect multiple sclerosis (MS). (Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders)

The researcher who linked the Epstein-Barr virus with MS wants to take on ALS next. (STAT)

Sarepta Therapeutics’ investigational gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy — delandistrogene moxeparvovec (SRP-9001) — will be reviewed by an FDA advisory committee before the drug’s May 29 regulatory action date, the company said.

Pfizer recalled rimegepant (Nurtec) blister cards because they did meet child-resistant packaging requirements.

More intensive differential blood pressure-lowering therapy may help prevent recurrent stroke, a meta-analysis suggested. (JAMA Neurology)

People with limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 (LATE) were older when cognitive symptoms began and lived longer than those with either Alzheimer’s disease or LATE and Alzheimer’s pathology combined. (Neurology)