Neurology® Podcast

Utility of an immunotherapy trial in the evaluation of patients with presumed autoimmune epilepsy and 2) Topic of the month: Critical care neurology. 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 Mytinger interviews Dr. Sean Pittock about his paper on the utility of an immunotherapy trial in the evaluation of patients with presumed autoimmune epilepsy. Dr. James Addington is reading our e-Pearl of the week about logopenic-variant primary progressive aphasia. In the next part of the podcast Dr. Mike Brogan interviews Dr. Pratik Pandharipande about delirium in acute brain dysfunction in critically ill patients. The participants had nothing to disclose except Drs. Pandharipande, Pittock and Addington.Dr. Pandharipande received research support from Hospira Inc. and the NIH.Dr. Pittock received research support from Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Guthy Jackso