Month: April 2020

Botox and Dependent Personality Traits

What could possibly be the connection? The first step is to understand personality traits. These tend to be lifelong and not amenable to psychotherapy of psychotropic medications. These are grouped as clusters but keep in mind that one size doesn’t fit all: Cluster A traits include paranoid and schizoid. Cluster B traits are histrionic, antisocial,… Read more »

Multiple Sclerosis in the Time of Coronavirus

I’m receiving daily calls from my MS patients who are understandably worried that their disease-modifying-therapy raises their risk of being infected with, and dying from, Covid-19. In my opinion and that of most MS specialists, they should continue their medication, especially the highly effective drugs, such as Tysabri, Ocrevus, and Mavenclad. They were started on… Read more »

Life in the Time of Coronavirus

Southern California is bracing for a tsunami of COVID-19 cases but people with neurological disorders still need care and support. Here are two updates. 1. A treatment for Alzheimer’s may be here soon. After more than a decade and billions of dollars spent in clinical trials, aducanumab, a monoclonal antibody that effectively clears amyloid from the… Read more »