After dropping to its lowest valuation at the end of September, the BioWorld Neurological Diseases index, a price-weighted index of public biopharmaceutical companies that are focused on developing therapies to treat neurological diseases, got on a roll and climbed 22% during the next two months. However, a surprising trial failure reported by Sage Therapeutics Inc. last week served to eat into those index gains.
Word from the FDA to Axsome Therapeutics Inc. about the effort with oral N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist AXS-05 in depression – and the company's accelerated push with the compound – had Wall Street watching the NMDA space with even more interest than usual.
