Neurology® Podcast

1) Time from convulsive status epilepticus onset to anticonvulsant administration in children and 2) Topic of the month: Voices of encephalitis. 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. John Mytinger interviews Dr. Tobias Loddenkemper about his paper on time from convulsive status epilepticus onset to anticonvulsant administration in children. Dr. James Addington is reading our e-Pearl of the week about cannabis in epilepsy. In the next part of the podcast Dr. Lara Marcuse interviews Stephen Haslett about the topic of herpes simplex virus encephalitis. The participants had nothing to disclose except Dr. Loddenkemper and Addington.Dr. Loddenkemper performs video EEG long term monitoring, EEGs and other electrophysiological studies at Boston Children's Hospital (20% effort); evaluates pediatric neurology patients; serves on the Laboratory Accreditation Boar