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Practical Neurology Podcast
The Practical Neurology Podcast is the essential guide for the everyday life of all neurologists. Just like our journal Practical Neurology, this podcast is useful for everyone who sees neurological patients and who wants to keep up-to-date and safe in managing them. In other words, this is a podcast for jobbing neurologists who plough through the tension headaches and funny turns week in and week out. Subscribe to enjoy deep dives into each journal issue with editors Prof. Philip Smith and Dr. Geraint Fuller, discussions on recent case reports with Prof. Martin Turner, and Editor’s Choice article discussions between authors and Dr. Amy Ross Russell. Practical Neurology - pn.bmj.com - is included as part of a subscription to JNNP and provided in print to all members of the Association of British Neurologists.
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Monday Oct 11, 2021
Monday Oct 11, 2021
Autoimmune encephalitis comprises a group of disorders in which the host immune system targets self-antigens expressed in the central nervous system (CNS). Some of the best-characterised diseases are associated with autoantibodies that target neuroglial antigens. These autoantibodies are considered pathogenic because they are directed against the extracellular—and hence in vivo exposed—domains of their target antigens.
Associate Editor of Practical Neurology, Dr Tom Hughes, Department of Neurology, Cardiff, interviews Prof Sarosh R Irani, Oxford Autoimmune Neurology Group, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Oxford University, about his recent paper, in which he summarised the well-known autoantibody-mediated encephalitis syndromes with neuronal cell-surface antigens and focus on practical aspects of their diagnosis and treatment, offer their clinical experiences of managing such cases and highlight more basic neuroimmunological advances that will inform their future diagnosis and treatments.
Read the paper on the Practical Neurology website (https://pn.bmj.com/content/21/5/412) and the October print issue of the journal.
The paper is also discussed by Practical Neurology editors, Dr Phil Smith and Dr Geraint Fuller, in their latest podcast: https://soundcloud.com/bmjpodcasts/editors-highlights-of-the-october-2021-issue?in=bmjpodcasts/sets/pn-podcast
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Friday Sep 10, 2021
Friday Sep 10, 2021
Practical Neurology Editors Phil Smith and Geraint Fuller talk you through the highlights of the October issue of the journal.
Read more on the PN website: https://pn.bmj.com/content/21/5/373
The full issue here: https://pn.bmj.com/content/21/5
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If you enjoy our podcast, please consider leaving us a review or a comment on the Practical Neurology Podcast iTunes page (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/pn-podcast/id942932053). Thank you for listening.
Friday Aug 06, 2021
Friday Aug 06, 2021
As the number of people with dementia worldwide approaches 50 million, the need for early and accurate diagnosis is more urgent than ever. However, the biggest challenge is often suspecting dementia in the first place and deciding why this is not ‘just’ Alzheimer’s disease.
Associate Editor of Practical Neurology, Dr Tom Hughes, Department of Neurology, Cardiff, interviews Dr Jeremy Johnson and Dr Jason Warren, both from the Dementia Research Centre, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, about their recent paper, in which they outline a practical, symptom-led, bedside approach to suspecting dementia and its likely diagnosis, inspired by clinical experience and based on recognition of characteristic syndromic patterns.
You can read the paper on the Practical Neurology website (https://pn.bmj.com/content/21/4/300) and the August print issue of the journal.
The paper is also discussed by Practical Neurology editors, Dr Phil Smith and Dr Geraint Fuller, in their latest podcast: https://soundcloud.com/bmjpodcasts/editors-highlights-of-the-august-2021-issue?in=bmjpodcasts/sets/pn-podcast
Please subscribe to the Practical Neurology podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify, to get the latest podcast every month.
If you enjoy our podcast, please consider leaving us a review or a comment on the Practical Neurology Podcast iTunes page (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/pn-podcast/id942932053). Thank you for listening.
Tuesday Jul 06, 2021
Tuesday Jul 06, 2021
Practical Neurology Editors Phil Smith and Geraint Fuller talk you through the highlights of the August issue of the journal.
Read more on the PN website: https://pn.bmj.com/content/21/4/273
The full issue here: https://pn.bmj.com/content/21/4
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Thursday May 20, 2021
Thursday May 20, 2021
Practical Neurology Editors Phil Smith and Geraint Fuller talk you through the highlights of the June issue of the journal.
Read more on the PN website: https://pn.bmj.com/content/21/3/183
The full issue here: https://pn.bmj.com/content/21/3
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Wednesday Apr 14, 2021
Wednesday Apr 14, 2021
Practical Neurology Editors Phil Smith and Geraint Fuller talk you through the highlights of the April issue of the journal.
Read more on the PN website: https://pn.bmj.com/content/21/2/91
The full issue here: https://pn.bmj.com/content/21/2
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Sunday Feb 21, 2021
Sunday Feb 21, 2021
Practical Neurology Editors Phil Smith and Geraint Fuller talk you through the highlights of the February issue of the journal.
Read more on the PN website: https://pn.bmj.com/content/21/1/1
The full issue here: https://pn.bmj.com/content/21/1
Thursday Jan 21, 2021
Thursday Jan 21, 2021
Dr Tom Hughes, Department of Neurology, Cardiff, interviews Dr Luis Idrovo, Department of Neurology, Leeds, about one of the most prevalent, disabling and undertreated conditions in neurological clinical practice: headaches.
They discuss the administration of peripheral nerve blocks to treat various headache disorders both in the acute and outpatient setting.
Please read the related paper, which is the Editor's Choice of the February 2021 issue of the journal: https://pn.bmj.com/content/21/1/30
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Wednesday Dec 09, 2020
Wednesday Dec 09, 2020
Practical Neurology Editors Phil Smith and Geraint Fuller talk you through the highlights of the December issue of the journal.
Read more on the PN website: https://pn.bmj.com/content/20/6/427
The full issue here: https://pn.bmj.com/content/20/6
Wednesday Nov 11, 2020
Wednesday Nov 11, 2020
In the return of the Practical Neurology Podcast, Dr Tom Hughes interviews Dr Saúl Reyes, Consultant Neurologist at the Blizard Institute, and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, UK.
They discuss the important issues regarding what vaccinations people with MS should have, and when they should have them in relation to their immunosuppressant drugs.
Read the accompanying paper on the Practical Neurology's November issue and online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/practneurol-2020-002527
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