Neurology® Podcast

November 8 2011 Issue

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Synopsis

1) Guideline update: treatment of essential tremor and 2) Topic of the month: Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy. 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. Tiffini Voss interviews Dr. Rodger Elble about the guideline update on treatment of essential tremor. In the next segment, Dr. Jennifer Fugate is reading our e-Pearl of the week about 'Burned-out hippocampus' syndrome. In the next part of the podcast Dr. Ted Burns interviews Dr. Eelco Wijdicks about neurologic examination of post-cardiac arrest patients. Over the following weeks, Dr. Burns will interview Dr. Wijdicks about how to translate neurologic examination into a prognosis. The participants had nothing to disclose except Drs. Elble, Fugate, Burns and Wijdicks.Dr. Elble serves on the scientific advisory board for the International Essential Tremor Foundation; has received funding for travel from the M