Sharon Roman, a patient advocate who suffers with Multiple Sclerosis, discusses the complexities of measures of disease activity and employment in MS. https://jnnp.bmj.com/content/91/1/5

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Dr Neil Graham and Prof David Sharp, from Imperial College London, discuss the interaction between traumatic brain injury and dementia. They outline the epidemiology, pathogenesis and emerging biomarkers in an area which is seeing increased attention. Read the full paper here: https://jnnp.bmj.com/content/90/11/1221.long

Dr Robert Simpson (University of Glasgow, UK) discusses the merits and limitations of mindfullness based treatments for mental well-being in Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Read the full paper here: https://jnnp.bmj.com/content/90/9/1051

Professor Helmar Lehmann (University Hospital of Cologne) provides an update on Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) and discusses recent advances in diagnosis and treatment. Read the full paper here: https://jnnp.bmj.com/content/90/9/981.long

Elizabeth Highton (podcast editor) is joined by Professor Alfonso Fasano (Toronto Western Hospital, Ontario, Canada) to discuss the overlapping phenomenology and diagnostic challenges in movement disorders and seizures. Read the paper here: https://jnnp.bmj.com/content/90/8/920.long

Dr. David Perez (Massachusetts General Hospital, USA) speaks with JNNP Podcast Editor, Elizabeth Highton about stepwise functional connectivity, a novel brain imaging technique, and how it might help us better understand the biology of functional neurological disorders. Read this month's Patient's Choice article here: https://jnnp.bmj.com/content/90/8/929

Dr. Susannah Pick (King’s College London, UK) discusses emotional processing in functional neurological disorder, and how further understand of emotional processing deficits may help contribute to a unified explanatory model for FND.

Dr Shelly Coe (Oxford Brookes University, Oxford) discusses a new randomized control trial looking at the use of cocoa for management of fatigue in multiple sclerosis. Read the full paper here: https://jnnp.bmj.com/content/90/5/507