In the July episode of the President's Spotlight, Dr. Jason Crowell and Dr. Natalia Rost discuss the role science plays in what the AAN does.

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https://www.aan.com/about-the-aan/presidents-spotlight

Dr. Dan Ackerman and Drs. Luuk Dekker and Jasper D. Daems discuss the analysis of various aLVO stroke detection scales to determine which one is the most useful for prehospital triage.

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https://www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/WNL.0000000000213570

In part two of this three-part series, Dr. Andy Southerland and Dr. Seemant Chaturvedi discuss the OPTIMISTmain Trial, which was presented at the 2025 European Stroke Organization Conference.

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https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)00549-5/abstract

In part one of this three-part series, Dr. Andy Southerland and Dr. Seemant Chaturvedi discuss the BRIDGE-TNK Trial, which was presented at the 2025 European Stroke Organization Conference.

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https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2503867

Dr. Elizabeth Coon and Dr. Peter Novak discuss how central sensitization plays a role in the autonomic symptoms-sings dichotomy and the importance of addressing both conditions for optimal treatment.

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https://www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/CPJ.0000000000200463