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July 28 2015 Issue

July 28 2015 Issue

FromNeurology® Podcast


July 28 2015 Issue

FromNeurology® Podcast

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Length:
38 minutes
Released:
Jul 27, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

1) Evaluation, diagnosis and management of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy and 2) Topic of the month: Plenary sessions AAN Meeting April 2015. 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. Rabi Tawil about his paper on the evaluation, diagnosis and management of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy. Dr. Sarah Wesley is reading our e-Pearl of the week about vertical nystagmus. In the next part of the podcast Dr. Alberto Espay interviews Dr. Helen Mayberg about her Robert Wartenberg Lecture at the AAN Meeting on the topic of what deep brain stimulation has taught us about the neurology of depression. The participants had nothing to disclose except Drs. Burns, Tawil, Wesley and Espay.Dr. Ted Burns serves as Podcast Editor for Neurology®; and has received research support for consulting activities with CSL Behring and Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Dr. Tawil serves as an editorial board member of Journal of Neuromuscular Diseases; serves on the safety monitoring board of Novartis; receives royalties from the publication of the books Neuromuscular Disorders (Rabi N. Tawil & Shannon Venance, Editors) and Neurology in Practice Series; receives research support from the NIH and Spinal Muscular Atrophy Foundation.Dr. Wesley serves on the editorial team for the Neurology® Resident and Fellow Section. Dr. Espay serves as an Associate Editor of Movement Disorders, Frontiers in Movement Disorders and Journal of Clinical Movement Disorders; serves as an editorial board member of Parkinsonism and Related Disorders and The European Neurological Journal; receives royalties for publications of books from Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins and from Cambridge University Press; serves on the scientific advisory board for Solvay Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (now Abbvie), Chelsea Therapeutics, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., Impax Pharmaceuticals, Merz, Pfizer Inc, Solstice Neurosciences, LLC, Eli Lilly and Company, US WorldMeds; is a consultant for Chelsea Therapeutics, Solvay Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (now Abbvie); serves on the speakers' bureaus of UCB, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., American Academy of Neurology, Movement Disorders Society; receives research support from CleveMed/Great Lakes Neurotechnologies, Michael J. Fox Foundation and the NIH.
Released:
Jul 27, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

The Neurology podcast is introduced by Editor-in-Chief Robert A. Gross, MD, PhD, who discusses several highlighted articles in the current issue of Neurology®. The podcast regularly features content from Neurology® Clinical Practice, Neurology® Genetics, and Neurology® Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation. Opening segments include interviews with authors who summarize a current article and discuss the main findings and clinical implications for neurologists. It concludes with the Lesson of the Week, a short segment on a topic such as a laboratory technique, statistical methods, or historical neurology. Regular features also include Delayed Recall, ePearls, and What’s Trending. Podcast listeners can earn 0.5 AMA PRA Category 1 CME Credits™ by answering the multiple-choice questions related to Neurology content in the online Podcast Quiz. (Delayed recall, Neurology® Clinical Practice, Neurology® Genetics, and Neurology® Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation contents are excluded from the CME program). The exams are posted weekly on Wednesday.