Neurology® Podcast

1) Olfactory dysfunction predicting early transition to Lewy body disease in idiopathic RBD and 2) Topic of the month: Autoimmune and paraneoplastic 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. Binit Shah interviews Dr. Werner Poewe about his paper on olfactory dysfunction predicting early transition to Lewy body disease in idiopathic RBD. Dr. Adam Numis is reading our e-Pearl of the week about Fragile X tremor ataxia syndrome. In the next part of the podcast Dr. Stacy Clardy interviews Dr. Josep Dalmau about other recently described antibodies associated with autoimmune encephalitis. The participants had nothing to disclose except Drs. Poewe, Numis and Dalmau.Dr. Poewe has received consultancy and lecture fees from Abbott, AstraZeneca, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd, Novartis, GlaxoSmithKline, Boehringer Ingelheim, UCB, Orion Pharma Ltd., a