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August 4 2015 Issue

August 4 2015 Issue

FromNeurology® Podcast


August 4 2015 Issue

FromNeurology® Podcast

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Length:
22 minutes
Released:
Aug 3, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

1) Aerobic training and post-exercise protein in 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. Erik Ensrud interviews Dr. Grete Andersen about her paper on aerobic training and post-exercise protein in facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy. Dr. Adam Numis is reading our e-Pearl of the week about non-invasive imaging of arterial dissection with MRI. In the next part of the podcast Dr. Alberto Espay interviews Dr. Stefan Pulst about his George C. Cotzias Lecture at the AAN Meeting about the topic of degenerative ataxias: From genes to therapies. The participants had nothing to disclose except Drs. Ensrud, Numis, Espay and Pulst.Dr. Ensrud serves on the data safety monitoring board for phase II trial of methotrexate in myastenia gravis; is a consultant for Skulpt/Convergence Medical Devices and FDA; received honoraria and funding for travel from Osler Institute; received funding for travel from American Association of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation; and received honoraria from American Association of Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medicine.Dr. Numis 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.Dr. Pulst serves as Editor-in-Chief of Current Genomics; serves as Editor of Neurology® Genetics; serves as an editorial board member of Journal of Cerebellum, NeuroMolecular Medicine, Continuum, Experimental Neurology, Neurogenetics, and Nature Clinical Practice Neurology; is author on patents re: Nucleic acids encoding ataxin-2 binding proteins; Nucleic acid encoding Schwannomin-binding-proteins and products related thereto; Transgenic mouse expressing a polynucleotide encoding a human ataxin-2 polypeptide; Methods of detecting spinocerebellar ataxia-2 nucleic acids; Nucleic acid encoding spinocerebellar ataxia-2 and products related thereto; Schwannomin-binding-proteins; and Compositions and methods for spinocerebellar ataxia; receives royalties from the publications of the books The Ataxias, Genetics in Neurology, Genetics of Movement Disorders, Neurogenetics, and Molecular Genetic Testing in Neurology, 2nd–5th ed.; serves on the speakers' bureau for Athena Diagnostics; receives research support from the NIH and the National Ataxia Foundation; receives license fee payments from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center; and has provided expert testimony in a medico-legal case.
Released:
Aug 3, 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.