Neurology® Podcast

1) Pretreatment cognitive deficits and treatment effects in childhood epilepsy and 2) Topic of the month: Multiple sclerosis therapy and treatment. 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. Nick Brenton interviews Dr. Tracy Glauser about his paper on pretreatment cognitive deficits and treatment effects in childhood epilepsy. Lara Marcuse talks about being diagnosed with cancer after listening to Ted Burns discuss his diagnosis in our September 3 podcast. Dr. Adam Numis is reading our e-Pearl of the week about ophthalmologic findings in neurocysticercosis. In the next part of the podcast Dr. Mark Keegan interviews Dr. Douglas Goodin about interferons and copaxone in multiple sclerosis. The participants had nothing to disclose except Drs. Glauser, Numis, Keegan, and Goodin.Dr. Glauser serves on the scientific advisory board for AssureRx Health, Inc.; serves