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December 15 2009 Issue

December 15 2009 Issue

FromNeurology® Podcast


December 15 2009 Issue

FromNeurology® Podcast

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Length:
28 minutes
Released:
Dec 15, 2009
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

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. Jeff Burns interview Dr. Stephen Salloway about his paper on using bapineuzumab in mild to moderate Alzheimer disease. In the next segment, Dr. Ryan Overman is reading our e-Pearl of the week about the Heidenhain variant of Creutzfeldt Jakob disease. The podcast concludes where Dr. Beau Bruce interviews Dr. Brian Weinshenker for the Lesson of the Week (disease of the month) on triptans. The participants had nothing to disclose except Drs. Burns & Salloway. Dr. Burns serves on the Neurology Podcast Committee.Dr. Salloway serves on scientific advisory boards for Myriad Genetics, Inc, Elan Corporation, Sanofi-aventis, Eisai Inc., and Pfizer; serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences; receives royalties from American Psychiatric Press Inc and Humana Press; received speaker honoraria from Eisai Inc., Pfizer, Novartis, Forest Laboratories, Inc. and Elan Corporation; serves as a consultant to Merck Serono and Medivation-data safety committee; receives research support from Elan Corporation, Wyeth, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Alzheimers Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, Dominantly Inherited Alzheimers Network, Aging Brain: DTI, Subcortical Ischemia and Behavior and NIH [NIA 1 R03 AGO23916-01A1]; receives funding from The Norman and Rosalie Fain Family Foundation.
Released:
Dec 15, 2009
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.