Opinion in 2017

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  • The development of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) has revolutionized cancer immunotherapy, but these agents carry a high risk of immune-related adverse events. Here, the authors introduce the mechanisms of action of ICIs and review their adverse effects on the CNS, which result in conditions such as paraneoplastic neurological syndromes and multiple sclerosis.

    • Lidia M. Yshii
    • Reinhard Hohlfeld
    • Roland S. Liblau
    Opinion
  • Sadnicka and colleagues present task-specific dystonia in the context of motor skill learning in health. Their framework integrates established risk factors for task-specific dystonia with mechanisms of motor skill learning, to indicate how disrupted neural representations of motor skills might arise.

    • Anna Sadnicka
    • Katja Kornysheva
    • Mark J. Edwards
    Opinion
  • Comorbidity is common in multiple sclerosis (MS). In this Opinion article, Ruth Ann Marrie discusses how comorbidity affects diagnosis, progression, mortality, and health-related quality of life in patients with MS, and how clinicians should incorporate the prevention and management of comorbidities when treating MS.

    • Ruth Ann Marrie
    Opinion