Neurology® Podcast

May 15 2012 Issue

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Synopsis

1) Newly diagnosed epilepsy 2) Topic of the month: Diagnosis of MCI and AD. 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. Jen Langer interviews Prof. Martin Brodie about his paper on newly diagnosed epilepsy. Dr. Jennifer Fugate is reading our e-Pearl of the week about nocturnal wandering in adults. In the next part of the podcast Dr. Jeff Burns interviews Dr. John Morris about imaging modalities for diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer disease. Over the next two weeks they will discuss a number of topics related to mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer disease. The participants had nothing to disclose except Prof. Brodie, Drs. Fugate, Burns and Morris.Prof. Brodie serves on the editorial boards of Seizure, Epilepsy & Behavior, CNS Drugs and Acta Neurologica Scandinavia; serves on scientific advisory boards for Pfizer Inc, UCB, Eisai Inc.