Practical Neurology Podcast

Editors Highlights of the August 2021 issue

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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Editors Highlights of the June 2021 issue

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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Editors Highlights of the April 2021 issue

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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Editors Highlights of the February 2021 issue

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

Peripheral nerve blocks for headache disorders

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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Editors Highlights of the December 2020 issue

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

Vaccine in Multiple Sclerosis

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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Essential tremor, Parkinson’s disease and dystonia: distinguishing the clinical features

Essential tremor is the most common form of tremor in humans.
In this podcast, Dr Tom Hughes, Practical Neurology Associate Editor, interviews Dr Elan D Louis, Yale Neurology, Division of Movement Disorders, New Haven, CT, who’s the author of a recent paper called, ‘Essential tremor: a nuanced approach to the clinical features’.
They discuss this condition, not always easy to diagnose, and the distinction between essential tremor and Parkinson’s disease as well as dystonia.
Read the paper on the Practical Neurology website: https://pn.bmj.com/content/19/5/389.

Infectious encephalitis: mimics and chameleons

‘Query encephalitis’ is a common neurological consultation in hospitalised patients. Identifying the syndrome is only part of the puzzle. Although historically encephalitis has been almost synonymous with infection, we increasingly recognise parainfectious or postinfectious as well as other immune-mediated causes. Encephalitis must also be distinguished from other causes of encephalopathy, including systemic infection, metabolic derangements, toxins, inherited metabolic disorders, hypoxia, trauma and vasculopathies. The paper discussed in this podcast reviews the most important differential diagnoses (mimics) of patients presenting with an encephalitic syndrome and highlight some unusual presentations (chameleons) of infectious encephalitis.
Listen to the conversation of Dr Tom Hughes, Practical Neurology Associate Editor, with Dr Nicholas Davies (Department of Neurology, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, UK) and read the paper on the Practical Neurology website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/practneurol-2018-002114.

A guide for investigating patients with complex neurology and epilepsy of unknown cause

A framework to guide general neurologists in the diagnostic reassessment of people with epilepsy and complex neurological problems of unknown cause is discussed in this podcast.
Dr Tom Hughes, Practical Neurology Associate Editor, is joined by Dr Lina Nashef (King’s College Hospital, London, UK), the corresponding author of the paper “Investigating adults with early-onset epilepsy and intellectual or physical disability”, which also addresses imaging, electroencephalography, genetic studies and metabolic testing.
Read the paper included on the Practical Neurology April issue here: ttps://pn.bmj.com/content/19/2/115.