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August 11 2015 Issue

August 11 2015 Issue

FromNeurology® Podcast


August 11 2015 Issue

FromNeurology® Podcast

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Length:
22 minutes
Released:
Aug 10, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

1) CIDP diagnostic pit-falls and perception of treatment benefits 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. Michelle Mauermann interviews Dr. Jeffrey Allen about his paper on chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy diagnostic pit-falls and perception of treatment benefits. Dr. Adam Numis is reading our e-Pearl of the week about exam findings in hemifacial spasms. In the next part of the podcast Dr. Alberto Espay interviews Dr. Howard Weiner about his Frontiers in Neuroscience Lecture at the AAN Meeting about the topic of immune mechanisms in neurologic diseases. The participants had nothing to disclose except Drs. Mauermann, Allen, Numis, Espay and Weiner.Dr. Mauermann receives research support from ISIS Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and the NIH.Dr. Allen is a consultant for AxelaCare and CSL Behring.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. Weiner is a consultant for Biogen Idec, Novartis, Merck Serono, Sanofi-aventis, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. and Therapix Biosciences Ltd.; served on the advisory board for The Guthy Jackson Charitable Foundation, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., Biogen Idec, Novartis, Sanofi-aventis; receives research support from EMD, Merck Serono, National Multiple Sclerosis Society, and the NIH.
Released:
Aug 10, 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.