Neurology® Podcast

1) Rising cost of multiple sclerosis drugs in the U. S. and 2) Topic of the month: Immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy. This podcast for the Neurology Journal begins and closes with Dr. Robert Gross, Editor-in-Chief, briefly discussing highlighted articles from the print issue of Neurology. In the second segment Dr. David Jones interviews Dr. Daniel Hartung about his paper on the rising cost of multiple sclerosis drugs in the U. S. Dr. Adam Numis is reading our e-Pearl of the week about Walker-Warburg syndrome. In the next part of the podcast Dr. Ted Burns interviews Dr. Andy Mammen about the topic of treatment overview of immunotherapy for the immune-mediated myopathies. The participants had nothing to disclose except Drs. Jones, Hartung, Numis, Burns and Mammen.Dr. Jones has received personal compensation for attending consultant meetings for Biogen Idec, Novartis and Genzyme Corporation.Dr. Hartung serves on the data safety monitoring board for Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research; is a consultant for Alkermes Inc.; receives research support from Alkermes Inc. and the Center for Disease Control and National Institute on Drug Abuse. Dr. Numis serves on the editorial team for the Neurology® Resident and Fellow Section. Dr. Ted Burns serves as Podcast Editor for Neurology®; and has received research support for consulting activities with CSL Behring and Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Dr. Mammen serves on the scientific advisory boards of aTYR Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Biogen Idec; serves as an editorial board member of Experimental Neurology and Arthritis and Rheumatism; receives license fee payments, royalties and revenue for a patent from INOVA Diagnostics Inc. for licensed test for anti-HMGCR antibodies; and research support from the NIH.

1) Looking ahead by looking back at practicing neurology and 2) Topic of the month: Immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy. This podcast for the Neurology Journal begins and closes with Dr. Robert Gross, Editor-in-Chief, briefly discussing highlighted articles from the print issue of Neurology. In the second segment Dr. Heather Harle interviews Dr. Steven Ringel about his paper on looking ahead by looking back at practicing neurology. Dr. Adam Numis is reading our e-Pearl of the week about neurologic complications of heroin inhalation. In the next part of the podcast Dr. Ted Burns interviews Dr. Andy Mammen about the topic of inclusion body myositis. The participants had nothing to disclose except Drs. Ringel, Numis, Burns and Mammen.Dr. Ringel serves as Editor of Neurology Today.Dr. Numis serves on the editorial team for the Neurology® Resident and Fellow Section. Dr. Ted Burns serves as Podcast Editor for Neurology®; and has received research support for consulting activities with CSL Behring and Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Dr. Mammen serves on the scientific advisory boards of aTYR Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Biogen Idec; serves as an editorial board member of Experimental Neurology and Arthritis and Rheumatism; receives license fee payments, royalties and revenue for a patent from INOVA Diagnostics Inc. for licensed test for anti-HMGCR antibodies; and research support from the NIH.

1) Prevalence and distribution of VZV in temporal arteries of patients with giant cell arteritis and 2) Topic of the month: Immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy. This podcast for the Neurology Journal begins and closes with Dr. Robert Gross, Editor-in-Chief, briefly discussing highlighted articles from the print issue of Neurology. In the second segment Dr. Jennifer Bickel interviews Dr. Don Gilden about his paper on the prevalence and distribution of VZV in temporal arteries of patients with giant cell arteritis. Dr. Adam Numis is reading our e-Pearl of the week about unresponsive CIDP: Is it POEMS? In the next part of the podcast Dr. Ted Burns interviews Dr. Andy Mammen about the topic of dermatomyositis. The participants had nothing to disclose except Drs. Gilden, Numis, Burns and Mammen.Dr. Gilden serves as an Senior Associate Editor for Journal of NeuroVirology; serves as an editorial board member of In Vivo, Journal of Virology, Scientific American Medicine, Virus Genes, Neurology and Journal of the Neurological Sciences; and receives research support from the NIH.Dr. Numis serves on the editorial team for the Neurology® Resident and Fellow Section. Dr. Ted Burns serves as Podcast Editor for Neurology®; and has received research support for consulting activities with CSL Behring and Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Dr. Mammen serves on the scientific advisory boards of aTYR Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Biogen Idec; serves as an editorial board member of Experimental Neurology and Arthritis and Rheumatism; receives license fee payments, royalties and revenue for a patent from INOVA Diagnostics Inc. for licensed test for anti-HMGCR antibodies; and research support from the NIH.

1) Dystonia: Five new things and 2) Topic of the month: Immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy. This podcast for the Neurology Journal begins and closes with Dr. Robert Gross, Editor-in-Chief, briefly discussing highlighted articles from the print issue of Neurology. In the second segment Dr. Jeff Ratliff interviews Dr. Brian Berman about his paper on five new things about dystonia. Dr. Adam Numis is reading our e-Pearl of the week about hereditary hemorrhagic telangectasia. In the next part of the podcast Dr. Ted Burns interviews Dr. Andy Mammen about the topic of immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy. The participants had nothing to disclose except Drs. Berman, Numis, Burns and Mammen.Dr. Berman serves on the Medical Advisory Boards for the Benign Essential Blepharospasm Research Foundation and the National Spasmodic Torticollis Association; has received funding for travel to conferences from Parkinson Study Group, American Neurological Association, Movement Disorder Society, Dystonia Medical Research Foundation, Benign Essential Blepharospasm Research Foundation; serves on the editorial board of Journal of Neurology and Neurophysiology; receives research support from the NIH, Dystonia Coalition, Dystonia Medical Research Foundation, Colorado Translational Research Imaging Center, University of Colorado Center for Neuroscience, The Dana Foundation, and the Benign Essential Blepharospasm Research Foundation. Dr. Numis serves on the editorial team for the Neurology® Resident and Fellow Section. Dr. Ted Burns serves as Podcast Editor for Neurology®; and has received research support for consulting activities with CSL Behring and Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Dr. Mammen serves on the scientific advisory boards of aTYR Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Biogen Idec; serves as an editorial board member of Experimental Neurology and Arthritis and Rheumatism; receives license fee payments, royalties and revenue for a patent from INOVA Diagnostics Inc. for licensed test for anti-HMGCR antibodies; and research support from the NIH.

Autoimmune & Paraneoplastic Encephalitis. Lesson of the Week interviews from February 2015.

1) Medicare payments to the Neurology workforce in 2012 and 2) Topic of the month: Implementation of genetic testing. This podcast for the Neurology Journal begins and closes with Dr. Robert Gross, Editor-in-Chief, briefly discussing highlighted articles from the print issue of Neurology. In the second segment Dr. Andy Southerland interviews with Drs. Lesli Skolarus and Kevin Kerber about their paper on Medicare payments to the Neurology workforce in 2012. Dr. Sarah Wesley is reading our e-Pearl of the week about dural arteriovenous fistulas. In the next part of the podcast Dr. Ted Burns interviews Dr. Daniel MacArthur about other issues related to genetic testing. The participants had nothing to disclose except Drs. Southerland, Kerber, Skolarus, Wesley and Burns.Dr. Southerland serves as Podcast Deputy Editor for Neurology®; serves as Clinical Research Advisor for Totier Technologies, Inc.Dr. Kerber received honoraria from Elsevier Inc., Michigan Academy of Family Physicians and American Academy of Neurology; is a consultant for University of California San Francisco, Best Doctors, Inc. and American Academy of Neurology; receives royalties from the publication of the book Clinical Neurophysiology of the Vestibular System, 4th edition; participated in legal proceedings by reviewing legal records of Phil Pearsons, MD, JD; and receives research support from NIH.Dr. Skolarus received funding for travel to AUPN meeting; receives institutional support from the University of Michigan for stroke-related research projects; and receives research support from the NIH.Dr. Wesley serves on the editorial team for the Neurology® Resident and Fellow Section. Dr. Ted Burns serves as Podcast Editor for Neurology®; and has received research support for consulting activities with CSL Behring and Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

1) How C90orf72 promotor hypermethylation is neuroprotective and 2) Topic of the month: Implementation of genetic testing. This podcast for the Neurology Journal begins and closes with Dr. Robert Gross, Editor-in-Chief, briefly discussing highlighted articles from the print issue of Neurology. In the second segment Dr. Ted Burns interviews Dr. Corey McMillan about his paper on how C90orf72 promotor hypermethylation is neuroprotective. Dr. Sarah Wesley is reading our e-Pearl of the week about paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration. In the next part of the podcast Dr. Ted Burns interviews Dr. Daniel MacArthur about the variants of unknown significance. The participants had nothing to disclose except Drs. Burns, McMillan and Wesley.Dr. Ted Burns serves as Podcast Editor for Neurology®; and has received research support for consulting activities with CSL Behring and Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Dr. McMillan received payment for being plenary speaker at the 2015 International Conference on Frontotemporal Degeneration; and receives research support from the NIH.Dr. Wesley serves on the editorial team for the Neurology® Resident and Fellow Section.

1) Being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and how she has focused on living with the disease and 2) Topic of the month: Implementation of genetic testing. This podcast for the Neurology Journal begins and closes with Dr. Robert Gross, Editor-in-Chief, briefly discussing highlighted articles from the print issue of Neurology. In the second segment Dr. Ted Burns interviews Ms. Janice Dean about being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and how she has focused on living with the disease. Dr. Sarah Wesley is reading our e-Pearl of the week about spinobulbar muscular atrophy. In the next part of the podcast Dr. Ted Burns interviews Drs. Radhika Dhamija and Christopher Klein about the reporting of sequence variants and also how the interpretability of the data is rapidly changing and what the implications of this change may be. The participants had nothing to disclose except Drs. Burns, Wesley and Klein.Dr. Ted Burns serves as Podcast Editor for Neurology®; and has received research support for consulting activities with CSL Behring and Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Dr. Wesley serves on the editorial team for the Neurology® Resident and Fellow Section. Dr. Klein serves as an editorial board member of Journal of Peripheral Nerve Society; and receives research support from NIH.

1) Update of quality measures in epilepsy and 2) Topic of the month: Implementation of genetic testing. This podcast for the Neurology Journal begins and closes with Dr. Robert Gross, Editor-in-Chief, briefly discussing highlighted articles from the print issue of Neurology. In the second segment Dr. Joanna Suski interviews Dr. Nathan Fountain about his paper on the update of quality measures in epilepsy. Dr. Sarah Wesley is reading our e-Pearl of the week about hemicrania continua. In the next part of the podcast Dr. Ted Burns interviews Drs. Radhika Dhamija and Christopher Klein about the topic of next generation sequencing. The participants had nothing to disclose except Drs. Fountain, Wesley, Burns and Klein.Dr. Fountain performs clinical procedures as epileptologist (100% effort) at the University of Virginia Comprehensive Epilepsy Program; receives research support from UCB, SK Life Sciences, Inc., Sunovion Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Medtronic, Inc., NeuroPace, Inc. and the NIH.Dr. Wesley serves on the editorial team for the Neurology® Resident and Fellow Section. Dr. Ted Burns serves as Podcast Editor for Neurology®; and has received research support for consulting activities with CSL Behring and Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Dr. Klein serves as an editorial board member of Journal of Peripheral Nerve Society; and receives research support from NIH.

Myelopathy Due to Systemic Disease. Lesson of the Week interviews from January 2015.