Neurology® Podcast

1) Absent brainstem reflexes 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. Ted Burns interviews Dr. Shin Chien Beh about his paper on a 41-year-old comatose man. Dr. Jennifer Fugate is reading our e-Pearl of the week about gait freezing. In the next part of the podcast Dr. Chafic Karam interviews Dr. Josep Dalmau about common central nervous system paraneoplastic disorders. Over the next two weeks, Dr. Karam will interview Dr. Dalmau about other paraneoplastic syndromes in neurology. The participants had nothing to disclose except Drs. Burns, Fugate, Karam and Dalmau.Dr. Burns serves as Podcast Editor for Neurology®; performs EMG studies in his neuromuscular practice (30% effort); and has received research support from the Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America and Knopp Neurosciences Inc..Dr.