Neurology® Podcast

The July 2022 replay of past episodes showcases a selection of interviews that provide a wealth of insight into a variety of topics in epilepsy. This episode features Dr. Halley Alexander in conversation with Drs. Emanuela Voinescu, Ezequiel Gleichgerrcht, Nishant Sinha, and Alison Pack on seizure frequency during pregnancy and postpartum, the anatomy of surgical lesions and outcomes in temporal lobe epilepsy, predicting seizure recurrence via brain networks, and the AAN Guideline Subcommittee's practice advisory for antiseizure medication withdrawal, respectively.

Dr. Jeff Ratliff discusses the suppression of mutant C9orf72 expression by a potent mixed backbone antisense oligonucleotide with Drs. Jonathan Watts and Robert Brown.

Dr. Gregg Day talks with Dr. Avi Nath, Clinical Director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), about COVID brain fog and other cognitive syndromes. Read the full article referenced in this podcast in the Washington Post.

Dr. Justin Abbatemarco talks with Prof. Sarosh Irani about the use of corticosteroids as a first-line agent in the treatment of LGI1 antibody encephalitis.

Dr. Gregg Day talks with Dr. Walter Koroshetz, Director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, about NINDS's mission and clinical neurology.

Dr. Jeff Burns talks with Dr. Ron Petersen, Director of the Mayo Clinic Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, about Medicare's recent decision to officially limit Aduhelm (aducanumab) coverage to patients in clinical trials. Read the full article discussed in this interview in the New York Times.

Dr. Karen Hirsch talks with Dr. Linnéa Grindegård about the association between EEG patterns and serum neurofilament light as a marker of neuroaxonal injury after cardiac arrest. Read the full article in Neurology.

Drs. B.J. Hicks and Andy Southerland talk with Dr. Scott Mendelson about racial and ethnic disparities in the rates of declination of thrombolysis in patients with acute ischemic stroke. Read the full article in Neurology.

Dr. Justin Abbatemarco talks with Prof. Gráinne Gorman about the use of L-arginine in the treatment of mitochondrial encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and strokelike episodes (MELAS). Read the full article in Neurology.

Dr. Fábio Nascimento talks with Dr. Elaine Pang about the identification and characterization of pure sleep epilepsy after first-ever seizures from sleep in adults. Read the full article in Neurology.