A new, inexpensive urine test that measures two sugar alcohols, sorbitol and xylitol, is making it easier, faster, and far less expensive to identify a common inherited nerve disorder called ...

Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP) is a rare but serious neurological disorder that affects the peripheral nerves — the network of nerves outside your brain and spinal cord that ...

Background Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) has already been described as a possible form of neural leprosy presentation. However, the median nerve can be involved in this neuropathy in proximal segments ...

Findings of a recent post-hoc analysis, which was presented at PNS 2025, demonstrated the efficacy of the gene therapy atidarsagene autotemcel (arsa-cel) in reducing the severity and progression of ...

This week, we are going to continue down the road of autoimmune peripheral nerve conditions to discuss two that we have touched on in the past—Guillain-Barré Syndrome and CIDP (chronic inflammatory ...

Background Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is the most common cause of acute flaccid paralysis worldwide and can be classified into electrophysiological subtypes and clinical variants. Objective This ...

Giant axonal neuropathy (GAN) is a rare, autosomal recessive neurodegenerative disorder, characterized by a spectrum of symptoms and a challenging prognosis. Now, a study published recently in the New ...

Gene therapy delivered for the first time via lumbar puncture showed promise of benefit in slowing progression of giant axonal neuropathy (GAN) in a phase I clinical trial. The slope of change in ...