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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 Jun 20, 2016
Monday Jun 20, 2016
Practical Neurology Editor Phil Smith is joined by Ingrid Scheffer to discuss her ABN Conference Gordon Holmes' lecture: "Epilepsy genetics comes of age".
Professor Ingrid Scheffer, paediatric neurologist and professor at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, is a world leading voice in the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy.
The ABN conference 2016, which theme was "The Seven Ages of Man", was held in May, in Brighton, UK.
Tuesday Jun 14, 2016
Tuesday Jun 14, 2016
Dr Jacqueline Palace is interviewed about her 10 year analysis of the UK Multiple Sclerosis risk sharing scheme study, presented at this year's Association of British Neurologists (ABN)conference, in Brighton, UK.
Jackie Palace, who is interviewed in this podcast by Ralph Gregory, is a clinical lead for the UK MS risk sharing scheme study assessing the long term effects of beta-interferon and Copaxone.
The ABN conference 2016, which theme was "The Seven Ages of Man", was held in May, in Brighton, UK.
Monday Mar 23, 2015
Monday Mar 23, 2015
Welcome to another Practical Neurology book club podcast with PN editor Phil Smith. This time the club and discussed Oliver Sack’s ‘The man who mistook his wife for a hat’, and were honoured to be joined via Skype by Dr Sacks himself.
Listen to hear his thoughts on understanding patients, how writing has influenced his clinical approach, and changes in neurology in the past few decades.
Tuesday Jul 29, 2014
Tuesday Jul 29, 2014
Michael J Fox, star of the Back to the Future trilogy, was born in 1961, moved to Hollywood aged 18 and while avidly lapping up the customary attention and refreshments, he developed Parkinson’s disease.
He has now authored a memoir describing his experience of the disease alongside his career as an actor.
In this podcast, hear PN editor Phil Smith discuss the book with Huw Morris, expert in young onset Parkinson's, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery.
Listen to the other interviews on Fox's memoir: http://goo.gl/YW9miQ
Read Dr Harding's review of the book: http://pn.bmj.com/content/14/4/283.full
Tuesday Jul 29, 2014
Tuesday Jul 29, 2014
Michael J Fox, star of the Back to the Future trilogy, was born in 1961, moved to Hollywood aged 18 and while avidly lapping up the customary attention and refreshments, he developed Parkinson’s disease.
He has now authored a memoir describing his experience of the disease alongside his career as an actor.
In this podcast, hear PN editor Phil Smith discuss the book with Katherine Harding, PN book club lead, and Department of Neurology, University Hospital of Wales.
Listen to the other interviews on Fox's memoir: http://goo.gl/YW9miQ
Read Dr Harding's review of the book: http://pn.bmj.com/content/14/4/283.full
Tuesday Jul 29, 2014
Tuesday Jul 29, 2014
Michael J Fox, star of the Back to the Future trilogy, was born in 1961, moved to Hollywood aged 18 and while avidly lapping up the customary attention and refreshments, he developed Parkinson’s disease. He has now authored a memoir describing his experience of the disease alongside his career as an actor. In this podcast, hear PN editor Phil Smith the book with Fox's neurologist from the Brigham and Women's Hospital, Allan Ropper.Listen to the other interviews on Fox's memoir: http://goo.gl/L2z10XRead Katherine Harding's review of the book: http://pn.bmj.com/content/14/4/283.full
Tuesday Jul 29, 2014
Tuesday Jul 29, 2014
Michael J Fox, star of the Back to the Future trilogy, was born in 1961, moved to Hollywood aged 18 and while avidly lapping up the customary attention and refreshments, he developed Parkinson’s disease. He has now authored a memoir describing his experience of the disease alongside his career as an actor. PN editor Phil Smith gathered the PN book club to discuss the memoir with Fox's neurologist from the Brigham and Women's Hospital, Allan Ropper, and in this podcast you can hear his thoughts, as well as contributions from book club lead Katherine Harding, Department of Neurology, University Hospital of Wales, and Huw Morris, expert in early onset Parkinson's, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery.You can also hear each contributor's interview in full.Allan Ropper: http://goo.gl/tsl2p3Katherine Harding: http://goo.gl/8B6ENwHuw Morris: http://goo.gl/3gRqNYRead Dr Harding's review of 'Lucky Man': http://pn.bmj.com/content/14/4/283.full
Tuesday Jun 24, 2014
Tuesday Jun 24, 2014
Martin Samuels, professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, tells Huw Morris, professor of Clinical Neuroscience at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery how neurologists make decisions, and the value of making mistakes.Professor Samuels gave the 20th Gordon Holmes lecture, supported by Practical Neurology, at the 2014 ABN Annual Meeting, where this podcast was recorded.
Tuesday Apr 15, 2014
Tuesday Apr 15, 2014
In preparation for this year's ABN annual conference in May, listen to last year's ABN Medallist speaker, David Chadwick.David Chadwick OBE is currently professor of neurology and consultant neurologist at the Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Liverpool. PN editor Phil Smith talks with him about his career, and the past, present and future of neurology.For more details about the ABN Annual Meeting 2014, see http://www.theabn.org
Friday Jan 17, 2014
Friday Jan 17, 2014
Neurological symptoms occur in approximately 20% of patients with Sjögren's syndrome, and may be the presenting manifestations of the disease. In this podcast, PN co-editor Phil Smith asks Aaron Berkowitz, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, about several neurological conditions that can occur in Sjögren's syndrome: sensory ganglionopathy, painful small fibre neuropathy, and transverse myelitis (independently or as part of neuromyelitis optica).Dr Berkowitz describes the symptoms, signs, differential diagnoses, recommended diagnostic evaluation, and treatment of each of these, highlighting the features that should alert neurologists to consider Sjögren's syndrome.Read the full review here: bit.ly/1fF2lev