This year there has been a significant resurgence of interest in public biopharmaceutical companies that are focused on developing therapies to treat neurological diseases. As a result, the sector got out of the gate quickly and, by the end of June, the BioWorld Neurological Diseases index, a price-weighted index of representative companies operating in that therapeutic area, had climbed in value to over 26%, well ahead of the performance of the general markets and blue-chip biopharma companies.