Neurology® Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

Dr. Alison Christy talks with Dr. Jennifer L. McGuire about neuroimaging findings linked to ICANS, exploring whether specific imaging patterns correlate with distinct neurologic symptoms. 

Read the related article in Neurology®. 

Disclosures can be found at Neurology.org.  

The November 2025 Recall revisits four insightful episodes centered on muscle and neuromuscular diseases. Kicking off the episode is a two-part series on myositis, where Dr. Stacey Clardy speaks with Dr. Andrew Mammen. The episode continues with an interview featuring Dr. Eric Voorn, who discusses the effectiveness of combining personalized, home-based aerobic exercise with coaching to improve physical fitness in individuals with neuromuscular diseases. The episode wraps up with Dr. Elia Sechi discussing the critical role of interpreting lab test results, understanding assay performance, and recognizing the real-world impact of false positives in myasthenia gravis diagnostics. 

Podcast links:

Updates on All Things Myositis – Part 1 

Updates on  All Things Myositis - Part 2

Efficacy of Aerobic Exercise and Coaching on Physical Fitness in Neuromuscular Disease 

False Positivity of Acetylcholine Receptor Autoantibodies in Clinical Practice

Article links:

Efficacy of Combined Aerobic Exercise and Coaching on Physical Fitness in People With Neuromuscular Diseases

Risk of False Acetylcholine Receptor Autoantibody Positivity by Radioimmunoprecipitation Assay in Clinical Practice

Show citations: 

Oorschot S, Brehm MA, van Groenestijn AC, et al. Efficacy of Combined Aerobic Exercise and Coaching on Physical Fitness in People With Neuromuscular Diseases: A Randomized Clinical Trial. Neurology. 2025;105(1):e213781. doi:10.1212/WNL.0000000000213781

Zara P, Chessa P, Deiana GA, et al. Risk of False Acetylcholine Receptor Autoantibody Positivity by Radioimmunoprecipitation Assay in Clinical Practice. Neurology. 2025;104(9):e213498. doi:10.1212/WNL.0000000000213498

Disclosures can be found at Neurology.org. 

 

Dr. Kiran Thakur talks with Dr. Ava Easton about the World Health Organization's technical brief on encephalitis. 

Read the related article in The Lancet. 

Disclosures can be found at Neurology.org. 

 

 

Dr. Shuvro Roy talks with Dr. Marisa Patryce McGinley about outpatient telemedicine utilization for neurologic conditions and identify potential disparities.

Read the related article in Neurology: Clinical Practice. 

Disclosures can be found at Neurology.org.

 

1) Intravenous thrombolysis and 2) Topic of the month: Cerebellar ataxias. 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. Brett Kissela interviews Dr. Henrik Gensicke about his paper on stroke patients treated with intravenous thrombolysis. Dr. Stacey Clardy is reading our e-Pearl of the week about brachial plexopathy. In the next part of the podcast Dr. Ted Burns interviews Drs. Susan Perlman and Jeremy Schmahmann about the topic of immune-mediated cerebellar ataxias. The participants had nothing to disclose except Drs Kissela, Gensicke, Clardy, Burns, Perlman and Schmahmann.Dr. Kissela serves on scientific advisory board for Allergan, Inc.; has received funding for travel and speaker honoraria from Allergan, Inc.; has received research support from the NIH, will receive compensation from Reata Pharmaceuticals, Inc. for serving on the Event Adjudication Committee for the BEACON study, which they are sponsoring. and provides medico-legal reviews.Dr. Gensicke receives research support from the Swiss National Science Foundation.Dr. Clardy served on the editorial team for the Neurology® Resident and Fellow Section. Dr. Burns serves as Podcast Editor for Neurology®; and has received research support for consulting activities with CSL Behring and Alexion Pharmaceuticals.Dr. Perlman serves on Medical Research Advisory Board for the National Ataxia Foundation, receives research support from Santhera Pharmaceuticals, Edison Pharmaceuticals, Friedreich Ataxia Research Alliance, and ARRAS funding via the RDN-CRC.Dr. Schmahmann serves as an editorial board member for The Cerebellum; receives royalties from the publication of the books The cerebellum and cognition, MRI atlas of the human cerrellum and Fiber pathways of the brain; holds stock options in Brother and for legal counsel to Johnson & Johnson; receives research support from Birmingham Foundation MINDlink Foundation Sidney R. Baer Jr., Foundations and the NIH and has a patent pending for transcranial magnetic stimulation.

Encephalopathies caused by endocrine, electrolyte and organ dysfunction

1) Spinal ischemic stroke and 2) Topic of the month: Child neurology topics. 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. Pearce Korb interviews Dr. Ronen Leker about his paper on spinal ischemic stroke following dialysis. Dr. Chafic Karam is reading our e-Pearl of the week about adrenomyeloneuropathy. In the next part of the podcast Dr. Jeff Waugh interviews Dr. Jonathan Mink about the topic of pediatric movement disorders. In concluding, there is a brief statement where to find other up-to date patient information and current Patient Page. The participants had nothing to disclose except Drs. Leker, Karam and Mink.Dr. Leker serves as an editorial board member of Journal of Molecular Neuroscience, Current Neurovascular Research and Journal of the Israeli Neurological Association.Dr. Karam served on the editorial team for the Neurology® Resident and Fellow Section. Dr. Mink serves as an Associate Editor for Neurology®; serves as an editorial board member of Journal of Child Neurology and Pediatric Neurology; serves on the scientific advisory board for Edison Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Data and Safety Monitoring Board; and receives research support from the NIH.

1) Advanced neurologic disease applications and 2) Topic of the month: Child neurology topics. 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. Robert Holloway about his paper on advanced neurologic disease. Dr. Chafic Karam is reading our e-Pearl of the week about exploding head syndrome. In the next part of the podcast Dr. Jeff Waugh interviews Dr. Blaise Bourgeois about the topic of pediatric epilepsy. The participants had nothing to disclose except Drs. Burns, Holloway, Karam and Bourgeois.Dr. Burns serves as Podcast Editor for Neurology®; and has received research support for consulting activities with CSL Behring and Alexion Pharmaceuticals.Dr. Holloway serves as an Associate Editor of Neurology Today; is a consultant for Milliman Guidelines Inc.; and receives research support from the NIH.Dr. Karam served on the editorial team for the Neurology® Resident and Fellow Section. Dr. Bourgeois served as a one-time consultant to Upsher-Smith Laboratories, Inc.; serves on the Data and Safety Monitoring Board for Pfizer Inc; receives research support from Lundbeck Inc.; receives royalties from the publication of Pediatric Epilepsy, 3d Edition and The Epilepsy Prescriber's Guide to Antiepileptic Drugs and one of several people holding a patent on technology that allows patient-specific early seizure detection based on EEG recording in patients with epileptic seizures.

1) AAN paper on teleneurology applications and 2) Topic of the month: Child neurology topics. 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. Nina Solenski interviews Dr. Lawrence Wechsler about this AAN paper on teleneurology applications. Dr. Chafic Karam is reading our e-Pearl of the week about tactile mitgehen. In the next part of the podcast Dr. Jeff Waugh interviews Dr. Gabrielle deVeber about the topic of pediatric stroke. The participants had nothing to disclose except Drs. Wechsler and Karam.Dr. Wechsler serves on the scientific advisory boards for Lundbeck Inc., Neurointerventions Therapeutics, Inc and Silk Road Medical, Inc; receives research support from the NIH (for patient clinical trials), provides telestroke services to hospitals in Pennsylvania and Maryland; holds stock options in Neurointerventions Therapeutics, Inc.Dr. Karam served on the editorial team for the Neurology® Resident and Fellow Section.

1) Depression in epilepsy and 2) Topic of the month: Child neurology topics. 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. Chenjie Xia interviews Ms. Kirsten Fiest about her paper on depression in epilepsy. Dr. Chafic Karam is reading our e-Pearl of the week about the art of memory revisited. In the next part of the podcast Dr. Jeff Waugh interviews Dr. Mark Gorman about the topic of autoimmune disorders. The participants had nothing to disclose except Dr. Karam.Dr. Karam served on the editorial team for the Neurology® Resident and Fellow Section.