Neurology® Podcast

1) Guideline update: Evaluation and management of concussion in sports and 2) Topic of the month: AAN Plenary Sessions. 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. Howard Goodkin interviews Christopher Giza about this guideline update on evaluation and management of concussion in sports. Dr. Adam Numis is reading our e-Pearl of the week about anti -MuSK antibody myasthenia gravis. In the next part of the podcast Dr. Alberto Espay interviews Dr. Merit Cudkowicz about her plenary session on ALS pathways to treatments. The participants had nothing to disclose except Drs. Goodkin, Giza, Numis, Espay and Cudkowicz.Dr. Goodkin serves as an editorial board member of Neurology and Surgical Neurology International; receives royalties from Up-to-Date for co-authorship of The Choking Game and other strangulation activities in children and adolescents; receives research support from the NIH.Dr. Giza serves on the data safety monitoring board for LAbiomed Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center; is a consult for NHL Player's Association; serves on the speakers' bureau for the Medical Education Speakers Network; receives royalties from the publication of the book Neurological Differential Diagnosis: A prioritized approach; received funding for travel to Major League Soccer Concussion Committee meeting, California State Athletic Commission Meetings and NCAA meeting; receives research funding from NIH, UCLA faculty grants, Thrasher Research Foundation, NFL Charities, Today's and Tomorrow's Children Fund, Richie's Fund and NCAA, and gave expert testimony on several mediocolegal cases.Dr. Numis serves on the editorial team for the Neurology® Resident and Fellow Section. Dr. Espay is supported by the K23 career development award (NIMH, 1K23MH092735); has received grant support from CleveMed/Great Lakes Neurotechnologies, Davis Phinney Foundation, and Michael J Fox Foundation; is a consultant for Chelsea Therapeutics; serves on the scientific advisory boards for Solvay Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Abbott (now Abbie), Chelsea Therapeutics, TEVA Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd, Impax Pharmaceuticals, Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC, Solstice Neurosciences, and Eli Lilly and Company, USWorldMeds; serves as Assistant Editor of Movement Disorders and on the editorial boards of The European Neurological Journal and Frontiers in Movement Disorders; serves on the speakers' bureaus of Novartis, UCB, TEVA Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd, American Academy of Neurology, Movement Disorder Society and receives royalties from Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins and Cambridge University Press.Dr. Cudkowicz is a consultant for TEVA Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., Cytokinetics, Biogen Idec; receives research support from Muscular Dystrophy Association, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Association, American Telemedicine Association and the NIH.

1) Creation of the AAN Global Health Section and 2) Topic of the month: AAN Plenary Sessions. 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. Farrah Mateen interviews Dr. Amy Lee about her paper on the creation of the AAN Global Health Section. Dr. Adam Numis is reading our e-Pearl of the week about Tullio phenomenon. In the next part of the podcast Dr. Alberto Espay interviews Dr. Jerome Posner about receiving the 2013 President's Award at the AAN Meeting and discussing his lecture on the importance of teaching and mentoring in neurology. The participants had nothing to disclose except Drs. Mateen, Numis, Espay and Posner.Dr. Mateen has consulted for the World Health Organization, Global Polio Eradication Initiative, and Caritas.Dr. Numis serves on the editorial team for the Neurology® Resident and Fellow Section. Dr. Espay is supported by the K23 career development award (NIMH, 1K23MH092735); has received grant support from CleveMed/Great Lakes Neurotechnologies, Davis Phinney Foundation, and Michael J Fox Foundation; is a consultant for Chelsea Therapeutics; serves on the scientific advisory boards for Solvay Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Abbott (now Abbie), Chelsea Therapeutics, TEVA Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd, Impax Pharmaceuticals, Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC, Solstice Neurosciences, and Eli Lilly and Company, USWorldMeds; serves as Assistant Editor of Movement Disorders and on the editorial boards of The European Neurological Journal and Frontiers in Movement Disorders; serves on the speakers' bureaus of Novartis, UCB, TEVA Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd, American Academy of Neurology, Movement Disorder Society and receives royalties from Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins and Cambridge University Press.Dr. Posner serves as an editorial board member on Up-to-Date; receives royalties from the publications of the books Diagnosis of stupor and coma and Neurologic complications of cancer; receives royalty payments, technology/inventions from Athena diagnostics.

Genetic causes of ataxia

1) Evidence-based guideline on periprocedural management of antithrombotic medications and neurovascular disease and 2) Topic of the month: Treatment of movement disorders. 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 Dr. Melissa Armstrong about the guideline on periprocedural management of antithrombotic medications and neurovascular disease. Dr. Roy Strowd is reading our e-Pearl of the week about HINTS of stroke. In the next part of the podcast Dr. Binit Shah interviews Dr. Kapil Sethi about management of of non-dopa responsive axial motor symptoms. The participants had nothing to disclose except Drs. Armstrong, Strowd and Sethi.Dr. Armstrong serves on Neurology, Level of Evidence Review Team; received funding for a trip to the MDS International Congress; received research support from Abbott and was partially funded by a Edmond J. Safra Fellowship at Toronto Western Hospital.Dr. Strowd serves on the editorial team for the Neurology® Resident and Fellow Section. Dr. Sethi serves on the scientific advisory board for International Essential Tremor Foundation; serves as an editorial board member of Neurology, Journal of Neuroscience, Medscape; is a consultant for Biogen Idec, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis, Ipsen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd., Solvay Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Allergan, Inc; serves on the speakers' bureau of Biogen Idec, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis, Ipsen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd., Solvay Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Allergan, Inc; received publishing royalties from Marcel Dekker Publisher; holds stock options in Elan Corporation and Pfizer Inc; involved in legal proceedings for welding litigation defense; receives research support from NPF center, Biogen Idec, GlaxoSmithKline, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd., Solvay Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Acadia Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and NIH.

1) Growing burden of neurodegenerative conditions and 2) Topic of the month: Treatment of movement disorders. 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. Binit Shah interviews Dr. Ray Dorsey about his paper on obtaining care for the growing burden of neurodegenerative conditions. Dr. Roy Strowd is reading our e-Pearl of the week about Huntington disease and the milk maid grip. In the next part of the podcast Dr. Binit Shah interviews Dr. Michael Okun about surgical management of Parkinson disease. The participants had nothing to disclose except Drs. Dorsey and Strowd.Dr. Dorsey serves on the scientific advisory board for Lundbeck Inc. and Huntington's Disease Society of America; serves as an editorial board member of Journal of Huntington's Disease; is a consultant for Avid Radiopharmaceuticals, Inc., Clintrex, Lundbeck, Inc., Medtronic, Inc., National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke; (30% effort) clinical practice as a movement disorder neurologist; receives research support from Google, Lundbeck, Inc.; Prana Biotechnology Limited, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Agency for Health Care Research and Quality; Macklin Foundation, Inc, and Verizon Foundation; holds stock options in ConsultingMD and a patent application related to telemedicine.Dr. Strowd serves on the editorial team for the Neurology® Resident and Fellow Section.

1) MRI sign of progressive supranuclear palsy and 2) Topic of the month: Treatment of movement disorders. 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. John Morgan interviews Dr. Luke Massey about his paper on an MRI sign of progressive supranuclear palsy. Dr. Roy Strowd is reading our e-Pearl of the week about the hummingbird sign. In the next part of the podcast Dr. Matthew Barrett interviews Dr. Fred Wooten about late treatment of motor symptoms. The participants had nothing to disclose except Drs. Morgan, Massey and Strowd.Dr. Morgan is a consultant for Impax Laboratories, Inc. and Veloxis Pharmaceuticals; serves on the speakers' bureaus of GlaxoSmithKline, Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries Ltd., UCB and GE Healthcare; performed CME for Oakstone Publishing, LLC; receives research support from the NIH and received compensation for review of medical records and expert witness testimony in multiple cases of litigation involving neurologic conditions.Dr. Massey received research support from the PSP Association Europe.Dr. Strowd serves on the editorial team for the Neurology® Resident and Fellow Section.

1) Diagnosis of gluten ataxia and 2) Topic of the month: Treatment of movement disorders. 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. Matthew Barrett interviews Dr. Marios Hadjivassiliou about his paper on the diagnosis of gluten ataxia. Dr. Roy Strowd is reading our e-Pearl of the week about tonic spasms in multiple sclerosis. In the next part of the podcast Dr. Matthew Barrett interviews Dr. Fred Wooten about early treatment of motor symptoms. The participants had nothing to disclose except Dr. Strowd.Dr. Strowd serves on the editorial team for the Neurology® Resident and Fellow Section.

Immune mediated, toxic & infectious ataxias

1) Exposure to stroke belt on incident stroke and 2) Topic of the month: Stroke trials. 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 Dr. Virginia Howard about her paper on exposure to the stroke belt on incident stroke in adulthood. Dr. Adam Numis is reading our e-Pearl of the week about Neuro-Behcet's disease. In the next part of the podcast Dr. Brett Kissela focuses his interview with Dr. Chelsea Kidwell about the MR Rescue trial. The participants had nothing to disclose except Drs Howard, Numis, Kissela and Kidwell.Dr. Howard serves on DSMB for NIH-NIDA; is a consultant for NIH review committees and receives research support from the NIH.Dr. Numis serves on the editorial team for the Neurology® Resident and Fellow Section. Dr. Kissela serves on scientific advisory board for Allergan, Inc.; has received funding for travel and speaker honoraria from Allergan, Inc.; has received research support from the NIH, will receive compensation from Reata Pharmaceuticals, Inc. for serving on the Event Adjudication Committee for the BEACON study, which they are sponsoring. and provides medico-legal reviews.Dr. Kidwell serves as an editorial board member of Stroke, Neurocritical Care Journal, Journal of Neuroimaging and Stroke Research and Treatment; and receives research support from Baxter and NIH.

1) Atrial fibrillation and unexplained stroke and 2) Topic of the month: Stroke trials. 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. Bryan Eckerle interviews Dr. Paul Cotter about his paper on incidence of atrial fibrillation and unexplained stroke. Dr. Adam Numis is reading our e-Pearl of the week about LGI-1 antibodies in limbic encephalitis. In the next part of the podcast Dr. Brett Kissela interviews Drs. Opeolu Adeoye and Art Pancioli about the CLEAR-ER trial. The participants had nothing to disclose except Drs Cotter, Numis, Kissela and Adeoye.Dr. Cotter receives research support from the UK National Institute for Health Research, Cambridge biomedical Research Center and Clinical Research Fellowship.Dr. Numis serves on the editorial team for the Neurology® Resident and Fellow Section. Dr. Kissela serves on scientific advisory board for Allergan, Inc.; has received funding for travel and speaker honoraria from Allergan, Inc.; has received research support from the NIH, will receive compensation from Reata Pharmaceuticals, Inc. for serving on the Event Adjudication Committee for the BEACON study, which they are sponsoring. and provides medico-legal reviews.Dr. Adeoye received honoraria for serving on the speakers' bureau of Genentech, Inc. and receives research support from the NIH.