Neurology® Podcast

1) Mild Alzheimer disease and 2) Topic of the month: Bedside testing of the frontal lobes. 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. Jeff Burns interviews Dr. Geoffrey Kerchner about his paper on mild Alzheimer disease. In the next segment, Dr. Ryan Overman is reading our e-Pearl of the week about MRI findings in idiopathic intracranial hypertension. In the next part of the podcast Dr. Ted Burns interviews Dr. Russ Swerdlow for the next part of our discussion on the orbitofrontal cortex for our Lesson of the Week. Over the subsequent two weeks, we will continue to highlight other areas of the frontal cortex. The participants had nothing to disclose except Drs. Kerchner, Overman, and Burns.