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Dr. Justin Abbatemarco and Dr. Ellen Iacobaeus discuss patient characteristics, disease-modifying therapy, and disability progression in patients with late-onset MS and adult-onset MS.   Show reference:  https://www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/WNL.0000000000208051

Dr. Jeff Ratliff and Dr. Chris Gibbons discuss the use of skin biopsies to detect phosphorylated α-synuclein in individuals with synucleinopathies.  Reference: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2816441

In the third episode of this five-part series, Dr. Irfan Sheikh talks about Idiopathic generalized epilepsy. In this episode, he talks about juvenile absence epilepsy.

Dr. Stacey Clardy talks with Dr. Charles Chiu to discuss his paper "Pathogen Detection and Associated Patient Characteristics from Clinical Metagenomic Next-generation Sequencing Testing for Neurological Infections."  Show reference:  https://index.mirasmart.com/AAN2024/PDFfiles/AAN2024-002889.html

Dr. Jeff Ratliff talks about distinguishing functional tic-like behaviors from primary tic disorders.   Show references: https://movementdisorders.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mdc3.13977 

As part of our "Physician as Patient" series, Dr. Andy Southerland and Dr. Amy Hessler discuss her experience with a ruptured arteriovenous malformation as a 2nd-year neurology resident.   

In the second episode of this five-part series, Dr. Irfan Sheikh talks about idiopathic generalized epilepsy. In this episode, he discusses childhood absence epilepsy.    

Dr. Rae Bacharach talks with Dr. Erin Finn to discuss her paper "Robert Frost’s Inaugural Woes: A Differential Diagnosis for his Acute Vision Loss." Show reference:  https://index.mirasmart.com/AAN2024/PDFfiles/AAN2024-002333.html 

As part of our "Physician as Patient" series, Drs. Andy Southerland and Joe Sirven discuss his experience with a ruptured arteriovenous malformation. If you're attending the AAN Annual Meeting in Denver, you can catch this conversation and more in a live Q&A session on April 16th at 2:30 pm MT at the publication stage.

Dr. Stacey Clardy talks with Dr. Reghann LaFrance-Corey to discuss her paper "Evaluation of the diagnostic utility of caveolae-associated protein 4 (cavin-4) epitope-based ELISA in identification of immune mediated rippling muscle disease." Show reference:  https://index.mirasmart.com/AAN2024/PDFfiles/AAN2024-003093.html