Neurology® Podcast

In the first segment, Dr. Stacey Clardy talks with Dr. Julie Silver about her paper on understanding and addressing gender equity for women in neurology. In the second part of the podcast, Dr. Gordon Smith focuses his discussion with Dr. Steve Pearson on an update on drug pricing. Their previous discussion on drug pricing was featured in two parts on January 8th and January 15th, 2019. Disclosures can be found at Neurology.org. CME Opportunity: Listen to this week’s Neurology Podcast and earn 0.5 AMA PRA Category 1 CME Credits™ by answering the multiple-choice questions in the online Podcast quiz.

In the first segment, Dr. Noah Kolb talks with Dr. Amanda Guidon about her paper on varied phenotypes and management of immune checkpoint inhibitor associated neuropathies. In the second part of the podcast, Dr. Stacey Clardy focuses her discussion with Dr. Mike R. Wilson on clinical metagenomic sequencing for diagnosis of meningitis and encephalitis. Read the full NEJM article here: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1803396. Disclosures can be found at Neurology.org. CME Opportunity: Listen to this week’s Neurology Podcast and earn 0.5 AMA PRA Category 1 CME Credits™ by answering the multiple-choice questions in the online Podcast quiz.

This month's Delayed Recall highlights interviews with some of the plenary session speakers from this year's AAN Annual Meeting. We highlight talks with Dr. Jonathan Mink, Dr. Claudia Lucchinetti, Dr. Jed Hartings, Dr. Ronald Melki, and Dr. J. Paul Taylor. 

In the first segment, Dr. Alex Menze talks with Dr. Jonathan Newmark about his Neurology: Clinical Practice paper that provides an update on therapy for acute nerve agent poisoning. In the second part of the podcast, Dr. Andrew Schomer focuses his discussion with Dr. Jan Claassen on detection of brain activation in unresponsive patients with acute brain injury. Read the full NEJM article here: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1812757.    Information on managing nerve agent attack can be found here: https://ccc.apgea.army.mil/. Disclosures can be found at Neurology.org. No CME this week: Interviews based on articles from Neurology® Clinical Practice, Neurology® Genetics, and Neurology® Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation are excluded from the CME program.

Dr. Stacey Clardy focuses her discussion with Dr. Amanda Grennell on an update on Zika for 2019. Read the full article here: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01906-z.   

In the first segment, Dr. Stacey Clardy talks with Dr. Anastasia Zekeridou about her paper on Phosphodiesterase 10A-IgG, a novel biomarker of paraneoplastic neurological autoimmunity. In the second part of the podcast, Dr. Jason Crowell focuses his discussion with Prof. Robin Feldman on “evergreening” and drug prices. Read the full article here: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01906-z.    Disclosures can be found at Neurology.org. CME Opportunity: Listen to this week’s Neurology Podcast and earn 0.5 AMA PRA Category 1 CME Credits™ by answering the multiple-choice questions in the online Podcast quiz.

In the first segment, Dr. Jason Crowell talks with Dr. Michele Hu and Dr. David Okai about their longitudinal study of the severity of impulse control disorders in Parkinson disease and RBD. In the second part of the podcast, Dr. Jason Crowell focuses his discussion with Dr. Heidi Ledford on her Nature article discussing CRISPR babies and what would be required to make gene editing safe and acceptable. Read the full article here: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01906-z.      Disclosures can be found at Neurology.org.   CME Opportunity: Listen to this week’s Neurology Podcast and earn 0.5 AMA PRA Category 1 CME Credits™ by answering the multiple-choice questions in the online Podcast quiz.

In the first segment, Dr. Stacey Clardy talks with Dr. Robert Zivadinov about cumulative gadodiamide administration leading to brain gadolinium deposition in early MS. In the second part of the podcast, Dr. Jeffrey Ratliff focuses his discussion with Dr. Michael D. Fox on his Brain paper on network localization of cervical dystonia based on causal brain lesions. You can read the paper here: https://academic.oup.com/brain/article-abstract/142/6/1660/5491101?redirectedFrom=fulltext.  

This month's Delayed Recall highlights more interviews from our new podcast offering, Neurology Minute. In 2019, Neurology launched a new podcast perfect for Alexa and other similar devices. This episode features digestible "minutes" from June and July. See the instructions for enabling the Neurology Minute on Amazon Alexa below:

In the first segment, Dr. Kristen Heinan talks with Dr. Barbara Weissman about her Neurology: Clinical Practice paper on recommendations for neurologists on the CDC’s Guideline on Pediatric Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. In the second part of the podcast, Dr. Will Rondeau focuses his discussion with Dr. Geoffrey Donnan on his NEJM paper on thrombolysis guided by perfusion Imaging up to 9 hours after onset of stroke. You can read the paper here: https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMoa1813046.  

In the first segment, Dr. Gregory Day talks with Dr. Philip Insel about his paper on determining clinically meaningful decline in preclinical Alzheimer disease. In the second part of the podcast, Dr. Sarah Tabrizi talks about targeting Huntington expression in patients with Huntington's disease in her interview with Dr. Jeffrey Ratliff. Read Dr. Tabrizi's paper in NEJM: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1900907?query=recirc_curatedRelated_article. 

In the first segment, Dr. Halley Alexander talks with Dr. Orrin Devinsky about his paper on the full spectrum of epilepsies and the North American SUDEP Registry. In the second part of the podcast, Dr. Ted Burns focuses his discussion with Dr. Gil Wolfe on his Lancet Neurology paper on the long-term effect of thymectomy plus prednisone versus prednisone alone in patients with non-thymomatous myasthenia gravis. You can read the paper here: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laneur/article/PIIS1474-4422(18)30392-2/fulltext.  

In the first segment, Dr. Jeffrey Ratliff talks with Dr. Franziska Hopfner about her paper on the use of ß2-adrenoreceptor agonist and antagonist drugs and risk of Parkinson disease. In the second part of the podcast, Dr. Jason Crowell focuses his discussion with Dr. Jerzy Szaflarski on his JAMA Neurology paper on the US Food and Drug Administration’s authorization of the first cannabis-derived pharmaceutical. You can read the paper here: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaneurology/article-abstract/2714720.

In the first segment, Dr. Michelle Mauermann talks with Dr. Bart Jacobs about his paper on current treatment practice of Guillain-Barré syndrome. In the second part of the podcast, Dr. Matthew Harms focuses his discussion with Dr. Guy Rouleau on his Neurology: Genetics paper looking at how somatic expansion of the C9orf72 Hexanucleotide Repeat does not occur in ALS spinal cord tissues.

This month's Delayed Recall highlights interviews on epilepsy and EEG. Dr. Derek Bauer talks with Dr. Paula Emanuela Voinescu about her paper on antiepileptic drug clearances during pregnancy and the relationship between drug serum concentration and seizure frequency from the Sept 25, 2018, podcast.  Next, Dr. Andy Schomer talks with Dr. Chloe Hill on the association between continuous EEG and favorable hospitalization outcomes for critically ill patients from the January 1, 2019, podcast.  For the next segment, we’re back with Derek Bauer, this time talking with Dr. Jacqueline French about the recent practice guideline on the treatment of new-onset epilepsy from the July 10, 2018 episode. And then again from the April 2, 2019, podcast, we hear Derek Bauer talk with Dr. Stephan Schuele about his paper on automated seizure detection accuracy for ambulatory EEG recordings.  Finally, we wrap up with Jeff Ratliff talking to Dr. Anup Patel about the 2017 epilepsy quality measurement set update, which originally ai

In the second part of a 2-part interview, Dr. Bob Gross discusses changes to the journal and publishing as well as some controversies and challenges as Editor-in-Chief of Neurology.

In the first part of a 2-part interview, Dr. Bob Gross discusses his experiences, opportunities, and challenges as Editor-in-Chief of Neurology.

Dr. Stacey Clardy talks with Dr. P. James B. Dyck about his paper on the incidence of lumbrosacral radiculoplexus neuropathy and association with diabetes mellitus.

Dr. Jason Crowell focuses his talk with Dr. Deborah Dowell on her NEJM perspective article looking at opioid prescribing and response to the CDC guidelines. You can read Dr. Dowell’s paper here: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1904190.

This month's Delayed Recall highlights interviews from our new podcast offering, Neurology Minute. In 2019, Neurology launched a new podcast perfect for Alexa and other similar devices. This episode features digestible "minutes" on measles in 2019, gene editing, the SHINE stroke trial, and more.