1) Her experiences and observations dealing with stroke recovery and rehabilitation and 2) Topic of the month: Movement disorder emergencies. 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. Andy Southerland interviews Ms. Esmeralda Santiago about her experiences and observations dealing with stroke recovery and rehabilitation. Dr. Adam Numis is reading our e-Pearl of the week about variants of sporadic Creutzfeld-Jakob disease. In the next part of the podcast Dr. David Taplinger interviews Dr. Steven Frucht about the movement disorder emergency: tic status. The participants had nothing to disclose except Drs. Southerland, Addington and Frucht.Dr. Southerland serves as Podcast Deputy Editor for Neurology®; serves as Clinical Research Advisor for Totier Technologies, Inc.Dr. Numis serves on the editorial team for the Neurology® Resident and Fellow Section. Dr. Frucht is a consultant for Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC and Impax Pharmaceuticals and receives royalties from the publication of the book Movement Disorders Emergencies.