Lisa Marie Basile

I sat on a wrought iron daybed facing an open window, and a warm breeze was pooling in. It was the first day in my second foster home. The room was made up to seem welcoming, but its pleasantness somehow felt oppressive. I felt dirty, worthless and consumed by fear.

A brain health hub at the American Academy of Neurology 2026 annual meeting explored the importance of educating patients about brain health. This session focused specifically on patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), but can also be applied to other areas of neurology.

“[AI chatbots] are a bit like staring at a Rorschach inkblot: What you see says more about you than the shape itself. That can be comforting or helpful in small doses, but in someone vulnerable, it can pull them deeper into their own mental narrative.” — Carolina Estevez, PsyD, a psychologist at SOBA New Jersey

“Fatigue is one of the most prevalent and challenging symptoms of MS,” Dr. Johnson said. “It affects 80-90% of patients. It’s described as an overwhelming physical or mental exhaustion and...

On the first day of the AAN 2026 Annual Meeting, experts discussed new guidelines in epilepsy and functional seizure treatment.

Painsomnia, or insomnia from chronic pain, affects a large number of U.S. adults.
94.8% of adults lost at least an hour of sleep to pain in the past week.

In a perfect world, we’d get all of our vital nutrients straight from our diet. But the truth is that it can be challenging to squeeze in the one and a half to two cups of fruit and two to three cups of vegetables the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends adults get every day.

Patients with vulvovaginal disorders often feel dismissed by clinicians or think about stopping treatment even though they still have symptoms, according to findings in a new study in JAMA Network Open.

Louis-Hunter Kean, a previously healthy 34-year-old, was repeatedly hospitalized due to high fevers, spleen and liver enlargement, and other unexplained symptoms beginning in 2022.

The American Academy of Neurology’s annual meeting kicked off Saturday morning, April 18, with a session dedicated to exploring neurology in the age of artificial intelligence (AI)—undoubtedly a hot topic this year, given that it’s a $45 billion market.

Hereditary angioedema (HAE) is a condition that causes recurring episodes of swelling, most commonly affecting the face (including the eyes, lips, mouth, and tongue), airway, limbs, and intestines.

Last week’s ASCO Genitourinary Cancers Symposium in San Francisco brought together the field’s leading oncologists, researchers, and innovators to share practice-changing data and highlight the future of genitourinary cancer care.

Many endocrine disorders physiologically affect mental health clinicians need to assess for both..

Gone are the days when patients had to rely solely on conventional synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (csDMARDs). Today, the gold standard for treatment generally includes biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (bDMARDs).