Neurology® Podcast

1) Opioids for chronic non-cancer pain and 2) Topic of the month: Plenary sessions AAN Meeting April 2015. This podcast for the Neurology Journal begins and closes with Dr. Robert Gross, Editor-in-Chief, briefly discussing highlighted articles from the print issue of Neurology. In the second segment Dr. Ted Burns interviews Drs. Stephen Nadeau and Gary Franklin about their papers on opioids for chronic non-cancer pain and the policy behind prescribing them. Dr. Adam Numis is reading our e-Pearl of the week about vaccinations and seizures. In the next part of the podcast Dr. Alberto Espay interviews Dr. Virginia Lee about her Frontiers in Neuroscience Lecture at the AAN Meeting about the topic of transmission of alpha-Synuclein in Parkinson disease: Pathogenesis and implications for therapy. The participants had nothing to disclose except Drs. Burns, Nadeau, Franklin, Numis, Espay and Lee.Dr. Ted Burns serves as Podcast Editor for Neurology®; and has received research support for consulting activities with CSL