Beau Ances (Washington University in St Louis, MO, USA) discusses recent research on amyloid biomarkers in people with genetic forms of Alzheimer’s disease; his Article is published in the January issue of The Lancet Neurology.

Axel Petzold (National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery and Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, UK, and Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands) discusses a Position Paper, published in the December issue of The Lancet Neurology, which sets out new criteria for the diagnosis and classification of optic neuritis.

Maeike Zijlmans (University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands) discusses recent research on tailoring of epilepsy surgery with biomarkers on intraoperative electrocorticography, and describes some of the challenges of this technique and what the future steps are for the field.

Jerome Siegel (University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA) discusses sleep research in hunter-gatherer populations and what we can learn from the sleep habits of various species; his Review is published in the October issue of The Lancet Neurology, which is the fourth paper in The Lancet’s Series on sleep and sleep disorders.

Laurent Servais and Dora Markati (both from the University of Oxford, UK) discuss emerging therapies for Duchenne muscular dystrophy; their Review is published in the September issue of The Lancet Neurology.

Andreas Charidimou (Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA) discusses an international collaborative study that presents new Boston criteria for diagnosis of cerebral amyloid angiopathy; the Article is published in the August issue of The Lancet Neurology.

Sarah Tabrizi (UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, UK) and Cristina Sampaio (CHDI Foundation, Princeton, NJ, USA) discuss two papers on Huntington’s disease published in the July issue of The Lancet Neurology: a Position Paper outlining a new classification of the disease, called the Huntington’s Disease Integrated Staging System, and a Personal View on potential disease-modifying therapies.

Mark Hallett (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, MD, USA) discusses his Review, published in the June issue of The Lancet Neurology, on functional neurological disorder, and talks about new subtypes of this disorder, diagnostic challenges, and how education is important.

Eva Feldman (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA) discusses the latest advances in the genetics, risk factors, pathophysiology, therapeutic development, and the diagnosis and prognosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; the Series is published in the May issue of The Lancet Neurology.

Estrella Morenas-Rodriguez and Christian Haass (German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Munich, Germany) discuss their recent research, published in the April issue of The Lancet Neurology, on soluble TREM2 and its association with Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers and cognition.