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May 6 2014 Issue

May 6 2014 Issue

FromNeurology® Podcast


May 6 2014 Issue

FromNeurology® Podcast

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Length:
28 minutes
Released:
May 5, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Utility of an immunotherapy trial in the evaluation of patients with presumed autoimmune epilepsy and 2) Topic of the month: Critical care 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. John Mytinger interviews Dr. Sean Pittock about his paper on the utility of an immunotherapy trial in the evaluation of patients with presumed autoimmune epilepsy. Dr. James Addington is reading our e-Pearl of the week about logopenic-variant primary progressive aphasia. In the next part of the podcast Dr. Mike Brogan interviews Dr. Pratik Pandharipande about delirium in acute brain dysfunction in critically ill patients. The participants had nothing to disclose except Drs. Pandharipande, Pittock and Addington.Dr. Pandharipande received research support from Hospira Inc. and the NIH.Dr. Pittock received research support from Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Guthy Jackson Charitable Foundation and the NIH.Dr. Addington serves on the editorial team for the Neurology® Resident and Fellow Section.
Released:
May 5, 2014
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.