Neurology® Podcast

1) Treatment of spinocerebellar ataxia and 2) Topic of the month: Paraneoplastic syndromes in neurology. 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. Bryan Cupka interviews Dr. Theresa Zesiewicz about her paper on treatment of spinocerebellar ataxia. Dr. Jennifer Fugate is reading our e-Pearl of the week about hereditary angioedema. In the next part of the podcast Dr. Chafic Karam interviews Dr. Josep Dalmau about NMDA encephalitis. Next week, you will hear the last interview by Dr. Karam with Dr. Dalmau about other paraneoplastic syndromes in neurology. The participants had nothing to disclose except Drs. Zesiewicz, Fugate, Karam and Dalmau.Dr. Zesiewicz serves on the speakers' bureau for and has received funding for travel and speaker honoraria from Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.; serves on the editorial board of Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movement