PNES Semiology

In the first episode of this two-part series, Dr. Justin Abbatemarco and Dr. Bob Fox walk through what serum neurofilament light chain is measuring and how it applies more broadly to neurological disease.  Show reference: https://www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/WNL.0000000000209357 

In part one of this three-part series on non-epileptic events. In this episode, Dr. Andy Ho Wing Chan provides an overview of psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES). Show reference: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/epi4.12060 

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

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.