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January 20 2015 Issue

January 20 2015 Issue

FromNeurology® Podcast


January 20 2015 Issue

FromNeurology® Podcast

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Length:
17 minutes
Released:
Jan 19, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

1) Exercise for falls prevention in Parkinson disease and 2) Topic of the month: Myelopathy due to systemic disease. 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. Michele Fullard interviews Dr. Colleen Canning about her paper on exercise for falls prevention in Parkinson disease. Dr. Sarah Wesley is reading our e-Pearl of the week about subacute sclerosing panencephalitis. In the next part of the podcast Dr. Ted Burns interviews Dr. Steven L. Lewis about the topic of myelopathy due to systemic disease: drugs, toxins, vitamin and minerals. The participants had nothing to disclose except Drs. Canning, Wesley, Burns and Lewis.Dr. Canning received funding for travel expenses and honorarium from the Movement Disorders Society, Singapore General Hospital, Australian and New Zealand Falls Prevention Society; receives research support from the Australian Government National Health and Medical Research Council, Parkinson's NSW and Harry Secomb Foundation.Dr. Wesley serves on the editorial team for the Neurology® Resident and Fellow Section. 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. Lewis serves as CME Section Co-Editor for Neurology® and as Editor in Chief for Continuum: Lifelong Learning in Neurology®; received royalties for book authorship and editorship from the publishers Wolters Kluwer and Wiley- Blackwell.
Released:
Jan 19, 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.