Neurology® Podcast

June 13 2017 Issue

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Show description/summary:1) Evaluating the safety of beta-interferons in multiple sclerosis 2) Neurology® Today: New Classifications of Seizures and Epilepsies Include New Seizure Types, Simpler TermsThis podcast begins and closes with Dr. Robert Gross, Editor-in-Chief, briefly discussing highlighted articles from the June 13, 2017 issue of Neurology. In the first segment, Dr. Michael Levy talks with Dr. Helen Tremlett and Dr. Hilda De Jong about their paper on evaluating the safety of beta-interferons in multiple sclerosis. In the next part of the podcast Dr. Nathan Fountain focuses his interview with Dr. Robert Fisher on the new classifications of seizures and epilepsies presented by the International League Against Epilepsy. Disclosures can be found at Neurology.org.DISCLOSURES:Dr. Levy serves on advisory boards for Asterias, Chugai, and Alexion; serves as Editorial Board member of Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders; holds patents for an aquaporin-4 sequence that elicits pathogenic T cell response in