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#116: Rife with Strife, Installment #2 Part 2 of 4: Uncertainties and controversies in neurology and medicine - with focus on cardio and cerebrovascular disease, stroke and TIAs. Future Rife with Strife series will focus on controversies in other areas of neurology. Today’s focus: EDTA (ethyline diamine tetra acetate) for the treatment of cardiac, peripheral and cerebral atherosclerosis. Reports: Basics of EDTA pharmacology History of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #116: Rife with Strife, Installment #2 Part 2 of 4: Uncertainties and controversies in neurology and medicine - with focus on cardio and cerebrovascular disease, stroke and TIAs. Future Rife with Strife series will focus on controversies in other areas of neurology. Today’s focus: EDTA (ethyline diamine tetra acetate) for the treatment of cardiac, peripheral and cerebral atherosclerosis. Reports: Basics of EDTA pharmacology History of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #116: Rife with Strife, Installment #2 Part 2 of 4: Uncertainties and controversies in neurology and medicine - with focus on cardio and cerebrovascular disease, stroke and TIAs. Future Rife with Strife series will focus on controversies in other areas of neurology. Today’s focus: EDTA (ethyline diamine tetra acetate) for the treatment of cardiac, peripheral and cerebral atherosclerosis. Reports: Basics of EDTA pharmacology History of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #116: Rife with Strife, Installment #2 Part 2 of 4: Uncertainties and controversies in neurology and medicine – with focus on cardio and cerebrovascular disease, stroke and TIAs. Future Rife with Strife series will focus on controversies in other areas of neurology. Today’s focus: EDTA (ethyline diamine tetra acetate) for the treatment of cardiac, peripheral and cerebral atherosclerosis. Reports: Basics of EDTA pharmacology History of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #115: Rife with Strife, Installment #1 Uncertainties and controversies in neurology and medicine - with focus on stroke and TIAs. Part 1 of 4. This 4-part series focuses on controversies in the area of strokes and TIAs. Future Rife with Strife series will focus on controversies in other areas of neurology. Hear these reports: The Role Of Controversies In The Advancement Of Medicine: medical [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #115: Rife with Strife, Installment #1 Uncertainties and controversies in neurology and medicine - with focus on stroke and TIAs. Part 1 of 4. This 4-part series focuses on controversies in the area of strokes and TIAs. Future Rife with Strife series will focus on controversies in other areas of neurology. Hear these reports: The Role Of Controversies In The Advancement Of Medicine: medical [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #115: Rife with Strife, Installment #1 Uncertainties and controversies in neurology and medicine - with focus on stroke and TIAs. Part 1 of 4. This 4-part series focuses on controversies in the area of strokes and TIAs. Future Rife with Strife series will focus on controversies in other areas of neurology. Hear these reports: The Role Of Controversies In The Advancement Of Medicine: medical [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #114: Information Technlogy for Neurology, Installment #3 Harnessing information power for your patients and your practice. Part 2 of 2. Special title for this installment: Information power forming the future of neurology and medicine. Hear these reports: Elsevier’s WiserWiki Allows Physicians To Update Evidence-Based Medical Information With Experience-Based Practice Insights: WiserWiki potentially creates a virtual, living, continually updated medical manual – possibly much more [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #114: Information Technlogy for Neurology, Installment #3 Harnessing information power for your patients and your practice. Part 2 of 2. Special title for this installment: Information power forming the future of neurology and medicine. Hear these reports: Elsevier’s WiserWiki Allows Physicians To Update Evidence-Based Medical Information With Experience-Based Practice Insights: WiserWiki potentially creates a virtual, living, continually updated medical manual – possibly much more [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #114: Information Technlogy for Neurology, Installment #3 Harnessing information power for your patients and your practice. Part 2 of 2. Special title for this installment: Information power forming the future of neurology and medicine. Hear these reports: Elsevier’s WiserWiki Allows Physicians To Update Evidence-Based Medical Information With Experience-Based Practice Insights: WiserWiki potentially creates a virtual, living, continually updated medical manual – possibly much more [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #113: Information Technology for Neurology, Installment #2 Harnessing information power for your patients and your practice This week’s show: The I.T. Sword has Two Edges: benefits and Risks of I.T. for neurology Hear these reports: Double-edged Sword of I.T.: It’s reaching into physician practices whether they’re ready for it or not. The government’s seeing to that. Is it a ‘brave new world’ for neurology [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #113: Information Technology for Neurology, Installment #2 Harnessing information power for your patients and your practice This week’s show: The I.T. Sword has Two Edges: benefits and Risks of I.T. for neurology Hear these reports: Double-edged Sword of I.T.: It’s reaching into physician practices whether they’re ready for it or not. The government’s seeing to that. Is it a ‘brave new world’ for neurology [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #113: Information Technology for Neurology, Installment #2 Harnessing information power for your patients and your practice This week’s show: The I.T. Sword has Two Edges: benefits and Risks of I.T. for neurology Hear these reports: Double-edged Sword of I.T.: It’s reaching into physician practices whether they’re ready for it or not. The government’s seeing to that. Is it a ‘brave new world’ for neurology [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #112: Reap the Sleep, Installment #6 Insights into sleep, and sleep disorders – whether lack of, excessive or disturbed sleep. Part 4 of a 4-part series. On this show: You’ll hear insights from sleep apnea patient Mr. Sam Frank for whom proper diagnosis and treatment of his obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) – especially the use of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) during [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #112: Reap the Sleep, Installment #6 Insights into sleep, and sleep disorders - whether lack of, excessive or disturbed sleep. Part 4 of a 4-part series. On this show: You’ll hear insights from sleep apnea patient Mr. Sam Frank for whom proper diagnosis and treatment of his obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) - especially the use of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) during [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #112: Reap the Sleep, Installment #6 Insights into sleep, and sleep disorders - whether lack of, excessive or disturbed sleep. Part 4 of a 4-part series. On this show: You’ll hear insights from sleep apnea patient Mr. Sam Frank for whom proper diagnosis and treatment of his obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) - especially the use of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) during [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #112: Reap the Sleep, Installment #6 Insights into sleep, and sleep disorders - whether lack of, excessive or disturbed sleep. Part 4 of a 4-part series. On this show: You’ll hear insights from sleep apnea patient Mr. Sam Frank for whom proper diagnosis and treatment of his obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) - especially the use of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) during [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #112: Reap the Sleep, Installment #6 Insights into sleep, and sleep disorders - whether lack of, excessive or disturbed sleep. Part 4 of a 4-part series. On this show: You’ll hear insights from sleep apnea patient Mr. Sam Frank for whom proper diagnosis and treatment of his obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) - especially the use of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) during [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #111: Reap the Sleep, Installment #5 Insights into sleep, and sleep disorders – whether lack of, excessive or disturbed sleep. Part 3 of a 4-part series. On this show: We conclude the 3 interviews with Sleep Medicine experts Dr. Michael Littner and Dr. Jay Puangco. How important is sleep medicine in the practice of neurology? Might we expect significant increases – or [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #111: Reap the Sleep, Installment #5 Insights into sleep, and sleep disorders - whether lack of, excessive or disturbed sleep. Part 3 of a 4-part series. On this show: We conclude the 3 interviews with Sleep Medicine experts Dr. Michael Littner and Dr. Jay Puangco. How important is sleep medicine in the practice of neurology? Might we expect significant increases - or [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #111: Reap the Sleep, Installment #5 Insights into sleep, and sleep disorders - whether lack of, excessive or disturbed sleep. Part 3 of a 4-part series. On this show: We conclude the 3 interviews with Sleep Medicine experts Dr. Michael Littner and Dr. Jay Puangco. How important is sleep medicine in the practice of neurology? Might we expect significant increases - or [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #111: Reap the Sleep, Installment #5 Insights into sleep, and sleep disorders - whether lack of, excessive or disturbed sleep. Part 3 of a 4-part series. On this show: We conclude the 3 interviews with Sleep Medicine experts Dr. Michael Littner and Dr. Jay Puangco. How important is sleep medicine in the practice of neurology? Might we expect significant increases - or [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #111: Reap the Sleep, Installment #5 Insights into sleep, and sleep disorders - whether lack of, excessive or disturbed sleep. Part 3 of a 4-part series. On this show: We conclude the 3 interviews with Sleep Medicine experts Dr. Michael Littner and Dr. Jay Puangco. How important is sleep medicine in the practice of neurology? Might we expect significant increases - or [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #110: Reap the Sleep, Installment #4 Insights into sleep, and sleep disorders - whether lack of, excessive or disturbed sleep. Part 2 of a 4-part series. On this show: We continue our interviews with Sleep Medicine experts Dr. Michael Littner and Dr. Jay Puangco. Cardiologists regularly use home testing for arrhythmia detection on a relatively large scale. Is it time for neurologists [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #110: Reap the Sleep, Installment #4 Insights into sleep, and sleep disorders - whether lack of, excessive or disturbed sleep. Part 2 of a 4-part series. On this show: We continue our interviews with Sleep Medicine experts Dr. Michael Littner and Dr. Jay Puangco. Cardiologists regularly use home testing for arrhythmia detection on a relatively large scale. Is it time for neurologists [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #110: Reap the Sleep, Installment #4 Insights into sleep, and sleep disorders - whether lack of, excessive or disturbed sleep. Part 2 of a 4-part series. On this show: We continue our interviews with Sleep Medicine experts Dr. Michael Littner and Dr. Jay Puangco. Cardiologists regularly use home testing for arrhythmia detection on a relatively large scale. Is it time for neurologists [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #110: Reap the Sleep, Installment #4 Insights into sleep, and sleep disorders - whether lack of, excessive or disturbed sleep. Part 2 of a 4-part series. On this show: We continue our interviews with Sleep Medicine experts Dr. Michael Littner and Dr. Jay Puangco. Cardiologists regularly use home testing for arrhythmia detection on a relatively large scale. Is it time for neurologists [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #109: Reap the Sleep, Installment #3 Insights into sleep, and sleep disorders - whether lack of, excessive or disturbed sleep. Part 1 of a 4-part series. On this show: Interview with Sleep Medicine experts Dr. Michael Littner and Dr. Jay Puangco. We’ll have an overview of Sleep Medicine, and highlight the importance Sleep Medicine as a medical specialty. Also: what percent of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #109: Reap the Sleep, Installment #3 Insights into sleep, and sleep disorders - whether lack of, excessive or disturbed sleep. Part 1 of a 4-part series. On this show: Interview with Sleep Medicine experts Dr. Michael Littner and Dr. Jay Puangco. We’ll have an overview of Sleep Medicine, and highlight the importance Sleep Medicine as a medical specialty. Also: what percent of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #109: Reap the Sleep, Installment #3 Insights into sleep, and sleep disorders - whether lack of, excessive or disturbed sleep. Part 1 of a 4-part series. On this show: Interview with Sleep Medicine experts Dr. Michael Littner and Dr. Jay Puangco. We’ll have an overview of Sleep Medicine, and highlight the importance Sleep Medicine as a medical specialty. Also: what percent of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #109: Reap the Sleep, Installment #3 Insights into sleep, and sleep disorders - whether lack of, excessive or disturbed sleep. Part 1 of a 4-part series. On this show: Interview with Sleep Medicine experts Dr. Michael Littner and Dr. Jay Puangco. We’ll have an overview of Sleep Medicine, and highlight the importance Sleep Medicine as a medical specialty. Also: what percent of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #108: Imagery for Neurology, Installment #3 Imagery and images for neurology professionals: part 2 of a 2-part mini series. Today’s show: Second part of the interview with Dr. Daniel Amen, MD and Dr. Douglass. They discuss the accuracy of SPECT images for ‘imaging human behavior,’ and the accuracy of SPECT scans for diagnosing preclinical and clinical Alzheimer’s disease. They’ll also touch [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #108: Imagery for Neurology, Installment #3 Imagery and images for neurology professionals: part 2 of a 2-part mini series. Today’s show: Second part of the interview with Dr. Daniel Amen, MD and Dr. Douglass. They discuss the accuracy of SPECT images for ‘imaging human behavior,’ and the accuracy of SPECT scans for diagnosing preclinical and clinical Alzheimer’s disease. They’ll also touch [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #108: Imagery for Neurology, Installment #3 Imagery and images for neurology professionals: part 2 of a 2-part mini series. Today’s show: Second part of the interview with Dr. Daniel Amen, MD and Dr. Douglass. They discuss the accuracy of SPECT images for ‘imaging human behavior,’ and the accuracy of SPECT scans for diagnosing preclinical and clinical Alzheimer’s disease. They’ll also touch [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #108: Imagery for Neurology, Installment #3 Imagery and images for neurology professionals: part 2 of a 2-part mini series. Today’s show: Second part of the interview with Dr. Daniel Amen, MD and Dr. Douglass. They discuss the accuracy of SPECT images for ‘imaging human behavior,’ and the accuracy of SPECT scans for diagnosing preclinical and clinical Alzheimer’s disease. They’ll also touch [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #107: Imagery for Neurology, Installment #2 Imagery and images for neurology professionals. Today’s show: Interview with Dr. Daniel Amen, MD. SPECT scanning has dramatically changed the way Dr. Amen looks at and sees (and treats) his patients. Psychiatrists remain the only doctors who never look at the ‘organ’ they treat (the human brain). We make psychiatric diagnoses today essentially like our predecessors did [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #107: Imagery for Neurology, Installment #2 Imagery and images for neurology professionals. Today’s show: Interview with Dr. Daniel Amen, MD. SPECT scanning has dramatically changed the way Dr. Amen looks at and sees (and treats) his patients. Psychiatrists remain the only doctors who never look at the ‘organ’ they treat (the human brain). We make psychiatric diagnoses today essentially like our predecessors did [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #107: Imagery for Neurology, Installment #2 Imagery and images for neurology professionals. Today’s show: Interview with Dr. Daniel Amen, MD. SPECT scanning has dramatically changed the way Dr. Amen looks at and sees (and treats) his patients. Psychiatrists remain the only doctors who never look at the ‘organ’ they treat (the human brain). We make psychiatric diagnoses today essentially like our predecessors did [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #107: Imagery for Neurology, Installment #2 Imagery and images for neurology professionals. Today’s show: Interview with Dr. Daniel Amen, MD. SPECT scanning has dramatically changed the way Dr. Amen looks at and sees (and treats) his patients. Psychiatrists remain the only doctors who never look at the ‘organ’ they treat (the human brain). We make psychiatric diagnoses today essentially like our predecessors did [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #106: Defeating Dementia, Installment #12 Promising news and approaches for progressive brain disorders - Part 4 of a 4-part mini series. Hear these reports: A New Method Has Been Developed to Efficiently Identify the Apo E4 Genetic Determinants of Alzheimer’s Disease: You may soon have a way to rapidly, accurately and inexpensively determine if your patients have the APO E4 genotype. Politics of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #106: Defeating Dementia, Installment #12 Promising news and approaches for progressive brain disorders - Part 4 of a 4-part mini series. Hear these reports: A New Method Has Been Developed to Efficiently Identify the Apo E4 Genetic Determinants of Alzheimer’s Disease: You may soon have a way to rapidly, accurately and inexpensively determine if your patients have the APO E4 genotype. Politics of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #106: Defeating Dementia, Installment #12 Promising news and approaches for progressive brain disorders - Part 4 of a 4-part mini series. Hear these reports: A New Method Has Been Developed to Efficiently Identify the Apo E4 Genetic Determinants of Alzheimer’s Disease: You may soon have a way to rapidly, accurately and inexpensively determine if your patients have the APO E4 genotype. Politics of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #106: Defeating Dementia, Installment #12 Promising news and approaches for progressive brain disorders - Part 4 of a 4-part mini series. Hear these reports: A New Method Has Been Developed to Efficiently Identify the Apo E4 Genetic Determinants of Alzheimer’s Disease: You may soon have a way to rapidly, accurately and inexpensively determine if your patients have the APO E4 genotype. Politics of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #105: Defeating Dementia, Installment #11 Promising news and approaches for progressive brain disorders - Part 3 of a 4-part mini series. Hear these reports: Omega-3 Fatty Acid Docosahexaenoic Acid Increases SorLA/LR11 - a Sorting Protein with Reduced Expression in Sporadic Alzheimer’s Disease (AD): Reduced LR-11 protein is associated with increased amyloid beta production. Increasing LR-11 levels using the docosohexaenoic acid, DHA [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #105: Defeating Dementia, Installment #11 Promising news and approaches for progressive brain disorders - Part 3 of a 4-part mini series. Hear these reports: Omega-3 Fatty Acid Docosahexaenoic Acid Increases SorLA/LR11 - a Sorting Protein with Reduced Expression in Sporadic Alzheimer’s Disease (AD): Reduced LR-11 protein is associated with increased amyloid beta production. Increasing LR-11 levels using the docosohexaenoic acid, DHA [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #105: Defeating Dementia, Installment #11 Promising news and approaches for progressive brain disorders - Part 3 of a 4-part mini series. Hear these reports: Omega-3 Fatty Acid Docosahexaenoic Acid Increases SorLA/LR11 - a Sorting Protein with Reduced Expression in Sporadic Alzheimer’s Disease (AD): Reduced LR-11 protein is associated with increased amyloid beta production. Increasing LR-11 levels using the docosohexaenoic acid, DHA [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #105: Defeating Dementia, Installment #11 Promising news and approaches for progressive brain disorders - Part 3 of a 4-part mini series. Hear these reports: Omega-3 Fatty Acid Docosahexaenoic Acid Increases SorLA/LR11 - a Sorting Protein with Reduced Expression in Sporadic Alzheimer’s Disease (AD): Reduced LR-11 protein is associated with increased amyloid beta production. Increasing LR-11 levels using the docosohexaenoic acid, DHA [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #104: Defeating Dementia, Installment #10 Promising news and approaches for progressive brain disorders - Part 2 of a 4-part mini series. Hear these reports: Lipids in the brain: an important factor for Alzheimer’s disease? Researchers at VIB Switch Laboratory in Switzerland recently discovered that a certain brain fat promotes formation of Alzheimer’s peptide, the neurotoxic protofibril. Key concept: concentrations of various lipids [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #104: Defeating Dementia, Installment #10 Promising news and approaches for progressive brain disorders - Part 2 of a 4-part mini series. Hear these reports: Lipids in the brain: an important factor for Alzheimer’s disease? Researchers at VIB Switch Laboratory in Switzerland recently discovered that a certain brain fat promotes formation of Alzheimer’s peptide, the neurotoxic protofibril. Key concept: concentrations of various lipids [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #104: Defeating Dementia, Installment #10 Promising news and approaches for progressive brain disorders - Part 2 of a 4-part mini series. Hear these reports: Lipids in the brain: an important factor for Alzheimer’s disease? Researchers at VIB Switch Laboratory in Switzerland recently discovered that a certain brain fat promotes formation of Alzheimer’s peptide, the neurotoxic protofibril. Key concept: concentrations of various lipids [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #104: Defeating Dementia, Installment #10 Promising news and approaches for progressive brain disorders - Part 2 of a 4-part mini series. Hear these reports: Lipids in the brain: an important factor for Alzheimer’s disease? Researchers at VIB Switch Laboratory in Switzerland recently discovered that a certain brain fat promotes formation of Alzheimer’s peptide, the neurotoxic protofibril. Key concept: concentrations of various lipids [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #103: Defeating Dementia, Installment #9           Promising news and approaches for progressive brain disorders - Part 1 of a 4-part mini series. Hear these reports: Multifaceted Aspects of Alzheimer’s Disease: From Social to Molecular Problems. We touch upon the many insights presented in this report from a special issue of the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease. ‘Young-Onset’ Alzheimer’s Is Increasing: Increased awareness of young-onset [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #103: Defeating Dementia, Installment #9           Promising news and approaches for progressive brain disorders - Part 1 of a 4-part mini series. Hear these reports: Multifaceted Aspects of Alzheimer’s Disease: From Social to Molecular Problems. We touch upon the many insights presented in this report from a special issue of the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease. ‘Young-Onset’ Alzheimer’s Is Increasing: Increased awareness of young-onset [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #103: Defeating Dementia, Installment #9           Promising news and approaches for progressive brain disorders - Part 1 of a 4-part mini series. Hear these reports: Multifaceted Aspects of Alzheimer’s Disease: From Social to Molecular Problems. We touch upon the many insights presented in this report from a special issue of the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease. ‘Young-Onset’ Alzheimer’s Is Increasing: Increased awareness of young-onset [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #103: Defeating Dementia, Installment #9           Promising news and approaches for progressive brain disorders - Part 1 of a 4-part mini series. Hear these reports: Multifaceted Aspects of Alzheimer’s Disease: From Social to Molecular Problems. We touch upon the many insights presented in this report from a special issue of the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease. ‘Young-Onset’ Alzheimer’s Is Increasing: Increased awareness of young-onset [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #102: Reign Over Pain, Installment #8 Commanding news you can use to benefit your hurting patients - Part 2 of a 2-part mini series.         Hear these reports: Fibrates and Statins Cut Peripheral Neuropathy Risk: in a subgroup of 530 people, fibrates reduced the risk of neuropathy by essentially 50%, and statins reduced the risk by 35%. Monofilaments for Peripheral Neuropathy Testing Often Inaccurate: [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #102: Reign Over Pain, Installment #8 Commanding news you can use to benefit your hurting patients - Part 2 of a 2-part mini series.         Hear these reports: Fibrates and Statins Cut Peripheral Neuropathy Risk: in a subgroup of 530 people, fibrates reduced the risk of neuropathy by essentially 50%, and statins reduced the risk by 35%. Monofilaments for Peripheral Neuropathy Testing Often Inaccurate: [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #102: Reign Over Pain, Installment #8 Commanding news you can use to benefit your hurting patients - Part 2 of a 2-part mini series.         Hear these reports: Fibrates and Statins Cut Peripheral Neuropathy Risk: in a subgroup of 530 people, fibrates reduced the risk of neuropathy by essentially 50%, and statins reduced the risk by 35%. Monofilaments for Peripheral Neuropathy Testing Often Inaccurate: [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #102: Reign Over Pain, Installment #8 Commanding news you can use to benefit your hurting patients - Part 2 of a 2-part mini series.         Hear these reports: Fibrates and Statins Cut Peripheral Neuropathy Risk: in a subgroup of 530 people, fibrates reduced the risk of neuropathy by essentially 50%, and statins reduced the risk by 35%. Monofilaments for Peripheral Neuropathy Testing Often Inaccurate: [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #101: Reign Over Pain, Installment #7 Commanding news you can use to benefit your hurting patients - Part 1 of a 2-part mini series.   Hear these reports: Migraine patients are at high risk for Serotonin Syndrome: consider the syndrome in any migraine patient with flu-like signs and symptoms, who is also taking combination of triptan plus an SSRI (or plus another serotonin agonist [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #101: Reign Over Pain, Installment #7 Commanding news you can use to benefit your hurting patients - Part 1 of a 2-part mini series.   Hear these reports: Migraine patients are at high risk for Serotonin Syndrome: consider the syndrome in any migraine patient with flu-like signs and symptoms, who is also taking combination of triptan plus an SSRI (or plus another serotonin agonist [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #101: Reign Over Pain, Installment #7 Commanding news you can use to benefit your hurting patients - Part 1 of a 2-part mini series.   Hear these reports: Migraine patients are at high risk for Serotonin Syndrome: consider the syndrome in any migraine patient with flu-like signs and symptoms, who is also taking combination of triptan plus an SSRI (or plus another serotonin agonist [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #101: Reign Over Pain, Installment #7 Commanding news you can use to benefit your hurting patients - Part 1 of a 2-part mini series.   Hear these reports: Migraine patients are at high risk for Serotonin Syndrome: consider the syndrome in any migraine patient with flu-like signs and symptoms, who is also taking combination of triptan plus an SSRI (or plus another serotonin agonist [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #100: Quest for the Best in Neurology, Installment #6 Part 2 of a 2-part mini series. After we give you a quick recap on Part 1 from last week… Hear these reports: Neurons Can be Generated From Glial Cells. Glia cells are stem cells in the brain, and using specific transcription factors they can be induced to differentiate into functional nerve cells. With this remarkable discovery, we [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #100: Quest for the Best in Neurology, Installment #6 Part 2 of a 2-part mini series. After we give you a quick recap on Part 1 from last week… Hear these reports: Neurons Can be Generated From Glial Cells. Glia cells are stem cells in the brain, and using specific transcription factors they can be induced to differentiate into functional nerve cells. With this remarkable discovery, we [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #100: Quest for the Best in Neurology, Installment #6 Part 2 of a 2-part mini series. After we give you a quick recap on Part 1 from last week… Hear these reports: Neurons Can be Generated From Glial Cells. Glia cells are stem cells in the brain, and using specific transcription factors they can be induced to differentiate into functional nerve cells. With this remarkable discovery, we [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #100: Quest for the Best in Neurology, Installment #6 Part 2 of a 2-part mini series. After we give you a quick recap on Part 1 from last week… Hear these reports: Neurons Can be Generated From Glial Cells. Glia cells are stem cells in the brain, and using specific transcription factors they can be induced to differentiate into functional nerve cells. With this remarkable discovery, we [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #99: Quest for the Best in Neurology, Installment #5 Part 1 of a 2-part mini series. Hear these reports: Simple Cocktail Turns Human Skin Cells (Fibroblasts) into Embryonic Stem Cell-Like Cells: the ‘right to life’ issues may now be out of the equation. Rapid decision (as result of #1): California Stem Cell Agency heavily funds research on the non-embryonic stem cells: the ‘skin-cell-to-stem-cell discovery’ is already influencing [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #99: Quest for the Best in Neurology, Installment #5 Part 1 of a 2-part mini series. Hear these reports: Simple Cocktail Turns Human Skin Cells (Fibroblasts) into Embryonic Stem Cell-Like Cells: the ‘right to life’ issues may now be out of the equation. Rapid decision (as result of #1): California Stem Cell Agency heavily funds research on the non-embryonic stem cells: the ‘skin-cell-to-stem-cell discovery’ is already influencing [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #99: Quest for the Best in Neurology, Installment #5 Part 1 of a 2-part mini series. Hear these reports: Simple Cocktail Turns Human Skin Cells (Fibroblasts) into Embryonic Stem Cell-Like Cells: the ‘right to life’ issues may now be out of the equation. Rapid decision (as result of #1): California Stem Cell Agency heavily funds research on the non-embryonic stem cells: the ‘skin-cell-to-stem-cell discovery’ is already influencing [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #99: Quest for the Best in Neurology, Installment #5 Part 1 of a 2-part mini series. Hear these reports: Simple Cocktail Turns Human Skin Cells (Fibroblasts) into Embryonic Stem Cell-Like Cells: the ‘right to life’ issues may now be out of the equation. Rapid decision (as result of #1): California Stem Cell Agency heavily funds research on the non-embryonic stem cells: the ‘skin-cell-to-stem-cell discovery’ is already influencing [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #98: Neurology Podcast For Peds, Installment #6 This is part 2 of this 2-part Podcast for Peds series. Hear these reports: Nursing Mothers’ Codeine Use May Be Risky for Infants: The CYP2D6 enzyme is involved in breaking down about 75 percent of all psychotropic medications, codeine being one of them. This is part of the early concept and specialty of ‘psychiatric pharmaco-genomics.’ Noise Helps Memory [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #98: Neurology Podcast For Peds, Installment #6 This is part 2 of this 2-part Podcast for Peds series. Hear these reports: Nursing Mothers’ Codeine Use May Be Risky for Infants: The CYP2D6 enzyme is involved in breaking down about 75 percent of all psychotropic medications, codeine being one of them. This is part of the early concept and specialty of ‘psychiatric pharmaco-genomics.’ Noise Helps Memory [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #98: Neurology Podcast For Peds, Installment #6 This is part 2 of this 2-part Podcast for Peds series. Hear these reports: Nursing Mothers’ Codeine Use May Be Risky for Infants: The C-Y-P-2-D-6 enzyme is involved in breaking down about 75 percent of all psychotropic medications, codeine being one of them. This is part of the early concept and specialty of ‘psychiatric pharmaco-genomics.’ Noise Helps Memory [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #98: Neurology Podcast For Peds, Installment #6 This is part 2 of this 2-part Podcast for Peds series. Hear these reports: Nursing Mothers’ Codeine Use May Be Risky for Infants: The C-Y-P-2-D-6 enzyme is involved in breaking down about 75 percent of all psychotropic medications, codeine being one of them. This is part of the early concept and specialty of ‘psychiatric pharmaco-genomics.’ Noise Helps Memory [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #97: Neurology Podcast For Peds , Installment #5 This is part 1 of a 2-part series. Next week will be part 2 of Podcast for Peds (installment #6). On this episode hear these reports: Neuroimaging Advances in Cerebral Palsy: Thanks to recent advances in neuroimaging CP is no longer considered a static disease for which little can be done. Neuroimaging is taking the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #97: Neurology Podcast For Peds , Installment #5 This is part 1 of a 2-part series. Next week will be part 2 of Podcast for Peds (installment #6). On this episode hear these reports: Neuroimaging Advances in Cerebral Palsy: Thanks to recent advances in neuroimaging CP is no longer considered a static disease for which little can be done. Neuroimaging is taking the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #97: Neurology Podcast For Peds , Installment #5 This is part 1 of a 2-part series. Next week will be part 2 of Podcast for Peds (installment #6). On this episode hear these reports: Neuroimaging Advances in Cerebral Palsy: Thanks to recent advances in neuroimaging CP is no longer considered a static disease for which little can be done. Neuroimaging is taking the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #97: Neurology Podcast For Peds , Installment #5 This is part 1 of a 2-part series. Next week will be part 2 of Podcast for Peds (installment #6). On this episode hear these reports: Neuroimaging Advances in Cerebral Palsy: Thanks to recent advances in neuroimaging CP is no longer considered a static disease for which little can be done. Neuroimaging is taking the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #96: Destination Demyelination, Installment #3 Solutions for patients suffering from demyelination disorders Hear these reports: Federal lawmakers recently formed first-ever Congressional Multiple Sclerosis caucus. Scientists find that the newly discovered cellular markers for multiple sclerosis – the CD39 regulatory T cells – are deficient in MS patients. Gene mutations/variations for the interleukin 2 and 7 receptors raise MS risk by 30%: This represents [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #96: Destination Demyelination, Installment #3 Solutions for patients suffering from demyelination disorders Hear these reports: Federal lawmakers recently formed first-ever Congressional Multiple Sclerosis caucus. Scientists find that the newly discovered cellular markers for multiple sclerosis – the CD39 regulatory T cells – are deficient in MS patients. Gene mutations/variations for the interleukin 2 and 7 receptors raise MS risk by 30%: This represents [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #96: Destination Demyelination, Installment #3 Solutions for patients suffering from demyelination disorders Hear these reports: Federal lawmakers recently formed first-ever Congressional Multiple Sclerosis caucus. Scientists find that the newly discovered cellular markers for multiple sclerosis – the CD39 regulatory T cells – are deficient in MS patients. Gene mutations/variations for the interleukin 2 and 7 receptors raise MS risk by 30%: This represents [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #96: Destination Demyelination, Installment #3 Solutions for patients suffering from demyelination disorders Hear these reports: Federal lawmakers recently formed first-ever Congressional Multiple Sclerosis caucus. Scientists find that the newly discovered cellular markers for multiple sclerosis – the CD39 regulatory T cells – are deficient in MS patients. Gene mutations/variations for the interleukin 2 and 7 receptors raise MS risk by 30%: This represents [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #95: Neoplasia News - Oncology for Neurology, Installment #2 Hear these reports: Glial cells are ‘teammates’ to the neurons and can apparently be ‘exercised’ to grow stronger. Einstein’s brain has over 70% more glial cells per neuron (in the association area) than the average brain. Gliomas from mobile phones: the jury’s still out, but evidence supporting a link is mounting, and be cognizant of the possibility of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #95: Neoplasia News - Oncology for Neurology, Installment #2 Hear these reports: Glial cells are ‘teammates’ to the neurons and can apparently be ‘exercised’ to grow stronger. Einstein’s brain has over 70% more glial cells per neuron (in the association area) than the average brain. Gliomas from mobile phones: the jury’s still out, but evidence supporting a link is mounting, and be cognizant of the possibility of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #95: Neoplasia News - Oncology for Neurology, Installment #2 Hear these reports: Glial cells are ‘teammates’ to the neurons and can apparently be ‘exercised’ to grow stronger. Einstein’s brain has over 70% more glial cells per neuron (in the association area) than the average brain. Gliomas from mobile phones: the jury’s still out, but evidence supporting a link is mounting, and be cognizant of the possibility of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #95: Neoplasia News - Oncology for Neurology, Installment #2 Hear these reports: Glial cells are ‘teammates’ to the neurons and can apparently be ‘exercised’ to grow stronger. Einstein’s brain has over 70% more glial cells per neuron (in the association area) than the average brain. Gliomas from mobile phones: the jury’s still out, but evidence supporting a link is mounting, and be cognizant of the possibility of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #94: Theatre of the Mind - Psychoneuroimmunology, Installment #2 Dynamics Between Psyche, Nerves, Endocrine System and Immune System. Hear this report: Placebo Response Receiving New Attention and the Respect it Deserves. Weblinks: Original story at Clinical Neurology News Stimulate the nucleus accumbens in the midbrain and stimulate the immune system. Citation (other): Harnessing the Power of the Placebo Effect and Renaming It “Remembered Wellness.” Herbert Benson, M.D, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #94: Theatre of the Mind - Psychoneuroimmunology, Installment #2 Dynamics Between Psyche, Nerves, Endocrine System and Immune System. Hear this report: Placebo Response Receiving New Attention and the Respect it Deserves. Weblinks: Original story at Clinical Neurology News Stimulate the nucleus accumbens in the midbrain and stimulate the immune system. Citation (other): Harnessing the Power of the Placebo Effect and Renaming It “Remembered Wellness.” Herbert Benson, M.D, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #94: Theatre of the Mind - Psychoneuroimmunology, Installment #2 Dynamics Between Psyche, Nerves, Endocrine System and Immune System. Hear this report: Placebo Response Receiving New Attention and the Respect it Deserves. Weblinks: Original story at Clinical Neurology News Stimulate the nucleus accumbens in the midbrain and stimulate the immune system. Citation (other): Harnessing the Power of the Placebo Effect and Renaming It “Remembered Wellness.” Herbert Benson, M.D, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #94: Theatre of the Mind - Psychoneuroimmunology, Installment #2 Dynamics Between Psyche, Nerves, Endocrine System and Immune System. Hear this report: Placebo Response Receiving New Attention and the Respect it Deserves. Weblinks: Original story at Clinical Neurology News Stimulate the nucleus accumbens in the midbrain and stimulate the immune system. Citation (other): Harnessing the Power of the Placebo Effect and Renaming It “Remembered Wellness.” Herbert Benson, M.D, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #93: Reap The Sleep, Installment #2 Insights into sleep, and sleep disorders - whether lack of, excessive, or disturbed sleep Focus: restless leg syndrome (RLS) Hear these RLS-related reports: Frequency and Pain of Restless Legs Should Guide Therapy Dopamine Agonists Aid Sleep in Restless Legs Other reports: Vigilance is Impaired in Drivers with Obstructive Sleep Apnea Screen Arnold-Chiari Patients for Sleep-Related Breathing Problems Ramelteon Effective [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #93: Reap The Sleep, Installment #2 Insights into sleep, and sleep disorders - whether lack of, excessive, or disturbed sleep Focus: restless leg syndrome (RLS) Hear these RLS-related reports: Frequency and Pain of Restless Legs Should Guide Therapy Dopamine Agonists Aid Sleep in Restless Legs Other reports: Vigilance is Impaired in Drivers with Obstructive Sleep Apnea Screen Arnold-Chiari Patients for Sleep-Related Breathing Problems Ramelteon Effective [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #93: Reap The Sleep, Installment #2 Insights into sleep, and sleep disorders - whether lack of, excessive, or disturbed sleep Focus: restless leg syndrome (RLS) Hear these RLS-related reports: Frequency and Pain of Restless Legs Should Guide Therapy Dopamine Agonists Aid Sleep in Restless Legs Other reports: Vigilance is Impaired in Drivers with Obstructive Sleep Apnea Screen Arnold-Chiari Patients for Sleep-Related Breathing Problems Ramelteon Effective [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #93: Reap The Sleep, Installment #2 Insights into sleep, and sleep disorders - whether lack of, excessive, or disturbed sleep Focus: restless leg syndrome (RLS) Hear these RLS-related reports: Frequency and Pain of Restless Legs Should Guide Therapy Dopamine Agonists Aid Sleep in Restless Legs Other reports: Vigilance is Impaired in Drivers with Obstructive Sleep Apnea Screen Arnold-Chiari Patients for Sleep-Related Breathing Problems Ramelteon Effective [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #92: Nerve University, Installment #4 Education, Research and Scholarship in Neurology Hear these reports and discussions: Gene Variants May Confer Sporadic ALS Susceptibility Sago Palm As A Cause Of ALS (likely involves glutamate neurotoxicity). Might other toxins be involved in causing ALS too (depending on genetic susceptibility)? Military Veterans Have Almost 60% Greater Chance Of Getting ALS Than The General Population. Hereditary ALS Linked [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #92: Nerve University, Installment #4 Education, Research and Scholarship in Neurology Hear these reports and discussions: Gene Variants May Confer Sporadic ALS Susceptibility Sago Palm As A Cause Of ALS (likely involves glutamate neurotoxicity). Might other toxins be involved in causing ALS too (depending on genetic susceptibility)? Military Veterans Have Almost 60% Greater Chance Of Getting ALS Than The General Population. Hereditary ALS Linked [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #92: Nerve University, Installment #4 Education, Research and Scholarship in Neurology Hear these reports and discussions: Gene Variants May Confer Sporadic ALS Susceptibility Sago Palm As A Cause Of ALS (likely involves glutamate neurotoxicity). Might other toxins be involved in causing ALS too (depending on genetic susceptibility)? Military Veterans Have Almost 60% Greater Chance Of Getting ALS Than The General Population. Hereditary ALS Linked [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #92: Nerve University, Installment #4 Education, Research and Scholarship in Neurology Hear these reports and discussions: Gene Variants May Confer Sporadic ALS Susceptibility Sago Palm As A Cause Of ALS (likely involves glutamate neurotoxicity). Might other toxins be involved in causing ALS too (depending on genetic susceptibility)? Military Veterans Have Almost 60% Greater Chance Of Getting ALS Than The General Population. Hereditary ALS Linked [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #91: Movement Disorder Quarter, Installment #2 Steadying Guidance on Motor Disturbances Hear these reports: Gene Therapy Showed Promise for Parkinson Disease NIH Examines Creatine for Parkinson’s Therapy Tips for Calming Motor Fluctuations Parkinson’s Drug Permax Withdrawn from Market Parkinson’s Rotigotine Patch Treatment Approved Safinamide Enhances Control of Parkinson’s: Combining the drug with dopamine enhanced the latter’s efficacy, which can lessen over time Simvastatin Found to Reduce Parkinson’s, ... 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #91: Movement Disorder Quarter, Installment #2 Steadying Guidance on Motor Disturbances Hear these reports: Gene Therapy Showed Promise for Parkinson Disease NIH Examines Creatine for Parkinson’s Therapy Tips for Calming Motor Fluctuations Parkinson’s Drug Permax Withdrawn from Market Parkinson’s Rotigotine Patch Treatment Approved Safinamide Enhances Control of Parkinson’s: Combining the drug with dopamine enhanced the latter’s efficacy, which can lessen over time Simvastatin Found to Reduce Parkinson’s, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #90: Infection-Inflammation, Installment #7 Infection-Inflammation: Calor, Dolor, Rubor, Tumor for the 21st century Neurologist. Hear these reports: Rapid Test For Viral Meningitis Is First To Win Agency Approval: Xpert EV test detects viral meningitis in CSF in < 3 hours (instead of the usual 3-7 day wait). Serogroup 22 Emerging as Common Meningitis Cause (in > 60% cases): Is it time that [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #90: Infection-Inflammation, Installment #7 Infection-Inflammation: Calor, Dolor, Rubor, Tumor for the 21st century Neurologist. Hear these reports: Rapid Test For Viral Meningitis Is First To Win Agency Approval: Xpert EV test detects viral meningitis in CSF in < 3 hours (instead of the usual 3-7 day wait). Serogroup 22 Emerging as Common Meningitis Cause (in > 60% cases): Is it time that [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #90: Infection-Inflammation, Installment #7 Infection-Inflammation: Calor, Dolor, Rubor, Tumor for the 21st century Neurologist. Hear these reports: Rapid Test For Viral Meningitis Is First To Win Agency Approval: Xpert EV test detects viral meningitis in CSF in < 3 hours (instead of the usual 3-7 day wait). Serogroup 22 Emerging as Common Meningitis Cause (in > 60% cases): Is it time that [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #90: Infection-Inflammation, Installment #7 Infection-Inflammation: Calor, Dolor, Rubor, Tumor for the 21st century Neurologist. Hear these reports: Rapid Test For Viral Meningitis Is First To Win Agency Approval: Xpert EV test detects viral meningitis in CSF in < 3 hours (instead of the usual 3-7 day wait). Serogroup 22 Emerging as Common Meningitis Cause (in > 60% cases): Is it time that [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #89: Policy for Neurology, Installment #6 Policy for Neurology - Plans and strategies impacting your patients and your practice Hear these reports: Bush Issues Second Stem Cell Veto AARP To Offer Health Insurance ALS Registry Legislation Introduced MD’s Call For More Funding For Disaster Planning More Medical Schools, Slots Needed To Fill Md Shortage Small Practices Decline AMA: Investigate Store Clinics Pay For Reporting Programmed Launched In July Federal Team Arrests [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #88: Stroke Struck, Installment #9 Stroke-Struck: Medical and Surgical Advances for Neurovascular Disorders. Hear these reports: Failure To Admit Patients With Tia Ups Stroke Risk Reversing Trend - Hospitalizations For Stroke Decline In U.S Poststroke Costs Hit Young The Hardest Hispanic Stroke Awareness: Immune Response Genes Found Linked To Intracranial Aneurysm Reducing Post-Stroke Infections [And] Mortality From A Novel Caspase Inhibitor Drug. Ending Poststroke Therapy With Statins [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #87: Body Magnetic, Installment #3 Body Magnetic - Where Medicine Meets Quantum Mechanics Cell Phone and Risk For Brain Tumors: According to meta-analysis, short-term use of cell phones may increase risk of gliomas only, but long-term use (10 years or more) may increase risk of all brain tumors. Older analog signals (higher energy than newer digital signals) may be a factor. Other [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #86: Reign Over Pain - Commanding News You Can Use to Benefit Your Hurting Patients. Installment #6 Web links: Refractory Migraine Diagnostic Criteria Proposed Meta-Analysis Suggests Link Between PFO, Migraine Peripartum Migraines Linked To Increased Risk For All Vascular Events Combination Treatment Reduced Migraine Activity Refractory Migraine Diagnostic Criteria Proposed Venous Stenting Leads To Long-Term Reprieve From Exertional Headache Pregabalin Is First Drug To Get Fibromyalgia Approval Providers Unaware Of Shifts In Opioid Rx Rules Pain Treatment Centers Recognized [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #85: Neurology’s Cutting Edge - Installment #6 Neurology’s Cutting Edge - Surgery And Trauma-Related Issues For Neurology Professionals. Endarterectomy Outcomes Beat Stenting: In a total of more than 17,000 patients. Statins and Cycloserine Lessen Tramautic Brain Injury Deficits Biomarker Enzyme May Help Predict Severity of Brain Trauma DTI Sheds Light on Diffuse Trauma Chitin (chitosan) shows great healing and biostimulant properties Next week’s show: Reign Over Pain [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #84: Ideology for Neurology - Installment #6 Ideology for Neurology: Working toward neurological perfection. Ideology-related Case File: ‘Why I Would Choose Neurology Again.’ Would you? And ideally, with scientific advancements someday we’ll have highly effective diagnostics and treatments related to these news items: Iron Accumulation in Gray Matter Tied to Multiple Sclerosis New Stem Cell Legislation Introduced Stem Cell Therapy For Patients With Sinusitis Successful E-Prescribing Called ‘Win-Win’ Alz ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #83: Podcast for Peds - Installment #4 Podcast for Peds: Issues related to problems of the developing nervous system. Focus: The Interactive Autism Network: Interview with ‘IAN’s’ founders Drs. Paul and Kiely Law. The two pediatricians will discuss their personal family experience with the autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) and how it led to their founding of IAN. We’ll also discuss how this rapidly growing [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #82: Medicines with Merit - Installment #4 Medicines with Merit - Pharmaceuticals showing promise for the patient with neurological disease. Focus: Current and emerging applications for Botox: the diluted natural protein from a highly toxic bacterium has many potential uses — maybe even for tension headaches. And other medicines with merit: Ramelteon, a melatonin receptor agonist drug, is approximately 10 times more potent than [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #81:Vulnerability in Neurology - Installment #5 Vulnerability in Neurology - Potential challenges for neurologists on the clinical front lines. Focus: Doctor Shortage - More than 60% of CEOs surveyed identified physician shortages as a serious problem that must be addressed. Other vulnerability issues: Medical debt on credit cards: According to research, increasing numbers of families are turning to credit cards to pay for medical [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #80: Defeating Dementia - Installment #8 Installment #8 of Defeating Dementia - Promising news and approaches for progressive brain disorders. Treat Alzheimer’s Early With Cholinesterase Inhibitors, Treat Long Term? At 1 year, patients on donepezil were significantly less likely to convert to Alzheimer’s disease. Over a year and a half, they did better on thinking, memory, and daily functioning measures, but by 3 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #79: Nerve University - Installment #3 Installment #2 of Nerve University - Education, Research and Scholarship in Neurology. What Triggers Huntington’s Disease? Listen and learn how oxidative DNA damage to the genes leads to subsequent defective enzymes, resulting in the formation and accumulation of toxic proteins. This may be a model for how other neurodegenerative diseases progress - Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s included. Essentially with this [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #78 Ideology for Neurology - Installment #5 Publication Date: July 13th, 2007. Installment #5 of Ideology for Neurology — working toward neurological perfection Focus: Stem cell therapy. Stem Cell Victory in California: CA Supreme Court just cleared the way for the state to use bond funding to pay for the Institute of Regenerative Medicine - a very large-scale stem cell research initiative. Stem Cells Treat [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #77: Podcast for Peds - Installment #3 Publication Date: July 6th, 2007. Installment #3 of Podcast for Peds: Issues related to problems of the developing nervous system, and the young folks who have them. Focus: Autism. Online Autism Registry Offers Research Portal: The Interactive Autism Network already has 6000 registered autistic children. This project is analogous to when researchers banded together to successfully fight [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #76: Spasms, Fits, Convulsions — Seizure Matters Publication Date: June 29th, 2007. Installment #5 of Spasms, Fits, Convulsions — Seizure Matters: Glioma Palliation Focuses on Seizure Prevention: Palliation specialist physician provides what he calls “simple medication regimen at the end of life.” Assessing Pediatric Seizure Drugs — Ativan versus Valium: The NIH’s Pediatric Seizure Study. Gamma Knife For Epilepsy May Spare Verbal Recall: Gamma [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #75: Neoplasia News — Installment #1 Neoplasia News - Oncology for Neurology. Installment #1. Photodynamic Therapy for Gliomas — reactive oxygen species are the active agents. Glioma Stem Cells: Radiation Proof — cancerous stem cells increased four-fold after irradiation. New Angle on Brain Tumor Therapy — force differentiation of cancerous stem cells with bone morphogenic protein, and we may someday be able to cure [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #74 - Theater of the Mind: Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) Installment #1 of Theater of the Mind: Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) — The dynamics between the psyche, nerves, endocrine system and immune system (different channels communicating in the same network, with the same or similar languages). The nerves lead directly to the tissues and cells of the immune system, and the immune system can actually be trained [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #74 - Theater of the Mind: Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) Installment #1 of Theater of the Mind: Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) — The dynamics between the psyche, nerves, endocrine system and immune system (different channels communicating in the same network, with the same or similar languages). The nerves lead directly to the tissues and cells of the immune system, and the immune system can actually be trained [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #74 - Theater of the Mind: Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) Installment #1 of Theater of the Mind: Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) — The dynamics between the psyche, nerves, endocrine system and immune system (different channels communicating in the same network, with the same or similar languages). The nerves lead directly to the tissues and cells of the immune system, and the immune system can actually be trained [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #73: Infection - Inflammation, Installment #6 Infection - Inflammation: Calor, Dolor, Rubor, Tumor for the 21st century Neurologist. Installment #5 Publication Date: Jun 8th, 2007. Focus: Stealth infections, and the possible effect that ONE of the numerous hidden invaders has on Parkinson’s disease. The bug is Helicobacter pylori. It’s back in the limelight. And Parkinson’s pathogenesis may be eased from its eradication. And does herpes [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #71: Reign over Pain, Installment #5 Reign over Pain - Commanding news you can use to benefit your hurting patients. Installment #5 Publication Date: May 25th, 2007. Jeff Evans - we welcome you as STAT reporter! Jeff is a neuroscientist, and an International Medical News Group Senior writer. Focus: Opioid analgesia - controversies and potential solutions. Point/Counterpoint - Are opioids an appropriate treatment for chronic [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #70: Stroke Struck, Installment #8 Medical and surgical advances for neurovascular disorders. Installment #8 Publication Date: May 18th, 2007. Focus: New AHA/ASA Stroke Guidelines - EMS emphasis. New Stroke Guidelines Emphasize Role of EMS: The new Guidelines recommend that EMS personnel bypass a hospital that doesn’t have the resources or institutional commitment to treat stroke patients. Two States’ Mandates Increased TPA Use in Stroke: [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #69: Policy for Neurology, Installment #5 Plans and strategies impacting your patients and your practice. Installment #4 Publication Date: May 11th, 2007. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.clinicalneurologynewspodcast.com%2Farchives%2F73'; addthis_title = '%2369%3A+Policy+for+Neurology%2C+Installment+%235'; addthis_pub = ''; Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #68: Defeating Dementia, Installment #7 Promising news and approaches for progressive brain disorders (previously called ’senility Solutions”). Installment #6 Publication Date: May 4th, 2007. Show Summary: Researcher and pathologist Dr. Alan MacDonald explores the link between Borrelia burgdorferi infection - neuroborreliosis - and Alzheimer’s disease. Previous STAT coverage of his work: #23, #26 and #65. On this episode, ‘Reflections on Recent Alzheimer’s News,” Dr. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #67: Neurology’s Cutting Edge, Installment #5 Surgery and trauma-related issues for neurology professionals, installment #5 Publication Date: Apr 27th, 2007. Focus: carotid artery stenting vs. endarterectomy. 1. Consensus limits carotid stenting to the sickest patients: a technology may have been introduced to humankind, before adequate safety and efficacy studies. 2. Restenosis may be an ongoing process after secondary stent: [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #66: Infection - Inflammation, Installment #5 Infection - Inflammation: Calor, Dolor, Rubor, Tumor for the 21st century Neurologist. Installment #4. Publication Date: Apr 20th, 2007. You’ll hear news on transmissible spongiform encephalopathy: 1. Prion Disease May Be Viral: Virus-like particles produced prion protein. 2. Early Therapy for Prion Disease: Therapies aimed at reducing prion protein might be a potential [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #65: Defeating Dementia, Installment #6 #66: Defeating Dementia - Promising news and approaches for progressive brain disorders; installment #5</title> <description> Defeating Dementia - Promising news and approaches for progressive brain disorders; installment #5. Publication Date: Apr 13th, 2007. Senility Solutions feature now called Defeating Dementia. Hear our second interview with pathologist researcher Dr. Alan MacDonald, discussing the possible link between Alzheimer’s disease and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #64: Podcast for Peds, Installment #2 Issues related to problems of the developing nervous system, and the young folks who have them. Installment #2. Publication Date: Apr 6th, 2007. Hear the interview with Dr. A. David Rothner from the Cleveland Clinic Foundation - specialist in pediatric headaches. Rapid Fire News includes: 1. Topiramate may prevent pediatric migraine 2. CDC launches [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #63: Vulnerability in Neurology, Installment #4 Potential challenges for neurologists on the clinical front lines. Installment #4. Publication Date: Mar 30th, 2007. 1. Thimerosal Haunts Flu Shot Recommendations: The ‘jury is still out’ on the issue of thimerosal and autism, but there are plans to expand the recommended age range to receive annual flu shots - from the current 6 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #62: Spasms, Fits, Convulsions - Seizure matters, Installment #5 #62: Spasms, Fits, Convulsions - seizure matters. (installment #4). Publication Date: Mar 23rd, 2007. 1. MRI Reveals New Epilepsy Surgery Candidates: Diffuse EEG patterns do not necessarily mean children don’t have a focal lesion amenable to the surgery. 2. Depression in Epilepsy Patients Is Common, but Undertreated: Consider using the PHQ-9 depression [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #61: Stroke-Struck, Installment #7 Medical and surgical advances for neurovascular disorders. This is the last of our three-part series of shows covering AHA’s International Stroke Meeting. Publication Date: Mar 16th, 2007. TPA is used in pediatric stroke despite lack of guidelines: Children have started the ‘clot-buster’ therapy at time intervals ranging from 20 minutes 52 hours. Anticlotting drug use in children varies [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #60: Stroke-Struck, Installment #6 Medical and surgical advances for neurovascular disorders. This is the second of three shows covering AHA’s International Stroke Meeting. Publication Date: Mar 9th, 2007. 1. Tight glycemic control - does it help in acute stroke patients? Even in medicine, we make assumptions about what we think may result in best outcomes for our patients [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #59: Stroke-Struck, Installment #5 Medical and surgical advances for neurovascular disorders. This is the first of 3 shows covering AHA’s International Stroke Meeting. Publication Date: Mar 2nd, 2007. Neurologist shortage hits stroke centers: There clearly aren’t enough neurologists to go around! It’s a major obstacle for hospitals to find neurologists available to consult 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #58: Neurology’s Cutting Edge, Installment #4 Surgery and trauma-related issues for neurology professionals, installment #5. Publication Date: Feb 23rd, 2007. Show Notes: Carotid stenting versus carotid endarterectomy: from a large meta analysis we now have the first statistically significant difference ever seen in the serious adverse events after treatment with these two surgical alternatives. Gamma Knife for mesial temporal lobe epilepsy: the radiosurgery was [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #57: Infection - Inflammation, Installment #4 Infection - Inflammation: Calor, Dolor, Rubor, Tumor for the 21st century Neurologist. Installment: #4. Publication Date: Feb 16, 2007. Show Notes: Prions - the creepy culprits causing Mad Cow Disease in England, and Kuru in Papua New Guinea cannibals. Thanks to contaminated blood products from silent carrier-donors, they are back in the news. Given the possible 30-year [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #56: Destination Demyelination, Installment #2 Publication Date: Feb 9, 2007. Show Notes: A laboratory model for Multiple Sclerosis is being used in mice to demonstrate potential therapeutic efficacy of nicotinamide (niacin, vitamin B-3) for multiple sclerosis. And in our other report, a vaccination against a cytokine may be efficacious against MS. The chemical messenger secreted by a newly discovered type of T-helper [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #55: Ideology for Neurology, Installment #4 #55: Ideology for Neurology- Working toward neurological perfection Installment: #4. Publication Date: Feb 2, 2007. Show Notes: Some ‘alternative medicine’ approaches for treating Multiple Sclerosis (MS) are showing promise empirically, but controlled studies are largely lacking. If the scientific evidence of efficacy substantiates some of the treatments, it may then be time to integrate them more fully [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #54: Imagery for Neurology Imaging and images for neurology professionals, installment #1. Publication Date: Jan 26, 2007. Show Notes: Conjuring up lies in the brain changes its magnetic resonance properties - so reproducibly and consistently that functional MRI images are over 90% accurate in actually viewing those lies! With neuroimaging research, potential benefits and thorny hazards abound! A modern-day Pandora’s Box has [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #53: Vulnerability in Neurology, Installment #3 Potential challenges for neurologists on the clinical front lines, installment #3. Publication Date: Jan 19, 2007. Show Notes: A low-cost alternative to sustained release opiates - methadone: has it led to increased vulnerability - increased morbidity and mortality - from sleep apnea? And you’re trying to switch a patient from morphine-based opioids to methadone, should you use the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #52: Policy for Neurology, Installment #4 Plans and Strategies Impacting Your Patients and Your Practice. This is our 4th installment of ‘P4N.’ Publication Date: Jan 12, 2007. Disclaimer: The reports in Clinical Neurology News take a neutral position on Medicare issues. Dr. William Campbell Douglass III MD, MS makes this Report about Medicare more personal: Is the recently legislated Medicare ‘Pay-for-Performance’ (P4P) program [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #51 - Neurology’s Believe it or Not - Curiosities from the Neurology Treasure Trove Publication Date: Jan 5, 2007. Show Notes: What ubiquitous dietary factor has recently been documented (using MRI) to result in brain atrophy and neurodegeneration in large numbers of humans? Listen and learn. And what substance normal to our physiology - at high-normal levels in the serum - is linked to significantly lower rates of progression of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #50 - Synopsis of our first 3 installments of Spasms, Fits, Convulsions Synopsis of our first 3 installments of Spasms, Fits, Convulsions - All things seizure-related (STAT episodes 6, 17 and 39) Publication Date: Dec 29, 2006. Remember the relationship between status epilepticus and structural damage to the heart? And how about the video game related to visually induced seizures, and the guidelines to prevent them? And remember what [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #49 - Reign Over Pain Precis - synopsis of our first 3 installments of Reign Over Pain Reign Over Pain Precis - synopsis of our first 3 installments of Reign Over Pain (STAT episodes 22, 30 and 38). Publication Date: 12/22/06. Show Notes: Join the STAT ‘podonauts’ to refresh your memory on the new Headache specialty; how to treat — and how NOT to treat — migraines; the guidelines for treating pain from [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #47: Body Magnetic - Where Medicine Meets Quantum Mechanics, Installment #2 Our second installment of Body Magnetic — Where Medicine Meets Quantum Mechanics — With focus on energy, matter, health and healing. Publication Date: 12/08/06. Show Notes: This show highlights the marvels of bioelectrical engineering for people with spinal cord injuries. Dr. Richard Caselli reported in Research Reports and Clinical Perspective in September’s Clinical Neurology News on the wonders [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #48 - Senility Solutions, Installment #5 Overview and review of our first 4 installments of Senility Solutions (STAT episodes 12, 23, 26 and 36). Publication Date: 12/15/06. Show Notes: From quantitative EEG for detecting vascular dementia, to CPAP for Alzheimer’s, and even neuroborreliosis ‘kinship’ to neurosyphilis, and biomarkers plus PIB-PET for Alzheimer’s diagnosis, we present to you a synopsis of Senility Solutions we think [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #46 - Reap the Sleep - Insights into Sleep Disorders, with focus on obstructive sleep apnea and insomnia Our first installment of Reap the Sleep — Insights into Sleep Disorders, with focus on obstructive sleep apnea and insomnia. Publication Date: 12/01/06. Show Notes: In this first installment of Reap the Sleep we cover effects of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) on brain compensatory mechanisms as we age. Clinical studies demonstrate that continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) improves [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #45 - Neurology’s Cutting Edge -Surgery and trauma-related issues for neurology Our fourth installment of Neurology’s Cutting Edge–with focus on surgery and trauma-related issues for neurology professionals. Publication Date: 11/24/06. Show Notes: Neurology’s Cutting Edge brings you important information on patients with brain injuries – especially SPECT scans for functional neuroanatomy of the brain, and cost issues for neurologists treating brain injured patients. Learn about beta blockers protective role [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #44 - Quest for the Best in Neurology #4 Our fourth installment of Quest for the best in Neurology. Publication Date: 11/17/06. Show Notes: 1. Palliative Care recognized as new subspecialty. 2. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy benefits kids with brain injury. 3. Punch biopsy: key to small fiber neuropathy. 4. 2004 report on chronic fatigue languishes at hhs. 5. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #43 - Medicines with Merit Our third installment of Medicines with Merit - Pharmaceuticals showing promise for the patient with neurological disease. Publication Date: 11/10/06. Show Notes: Emerging treatment and diagnostic strategies may transform AD from a death sentence to a disease patient’s can manage, much like HIV: SALAS = the operative acronym. And cannabinoids dronabinol and nabilone in the news, and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #41: Policy for Neurology #3 Our third installment of Policy for Neurology - plans and strategies impacting your patients and your practice. Publication Date: 10/27/06. Show notes: More “Medicare madness”: the proposed 5% cut in your pay — equivalent 9% considering inflation - and what you can do about it, so you’re not singing ‘The Medicare Blues.’ Also a Medicare risk-reduction program: [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #40: Information Technology for Neurology #1 Information to optimize your medical IT efficiency. Our first installment of Information technology for neurology: information to optimize your medical IT efficiency — with focus on the electronic health record. Publication Date: 10/20/06. Show notes: Information technology is reaching into physician practices whether they are ready for it or not. The electronic health record will be a requirement [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #39: Spasms, Fits, Convulsions #3 All things seizure-related, with focus on epilepsy. This is installment #3 of Spasms, Fits, and Convulsions - All Things Seizure-Related. Publication Date: 10/13/06. Show notes: We look at exciting clinical developments in epilepsy, with focus on medical imaging to locate origin of seizures. MRI is already able to identify seizure foci in infants. Our lead story [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #38: Reign Over Pain, Installment #3 This is installment #3 of Reign Over Pain — Commanding news you can use to benefit your hurting patients — with focus on headache. Publication Date: 10/06/06. Show notes: It’s all things headache-related today. Shortchanged by Medicare in your treatment of headache? We have some secrets, which may help you get paid what you deserve. And would [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #37: Stroke Struck, Installment #3 Advances for Neurovascular Disorders, Installment #3. Publication Date: 09/29/06. Show notes: We tackle costs associated with comprehensive stroke centers, and what it takes to run them. Also: new application for statins to minimize vasospasm after subarachnoid hemorrhage; CT perfusion score to predict risk from tPA-induced hemorrhage; APACHE score to predict stroke outcome after 1 year; increased cerebral [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website #36: Senility Solutions, Installment #4 Promising news and approaches for progressive brain disorders. 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