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Drs. Paul Crane, Fiifi Duodu, and Malya Sahu discuss neuroimmunology and multiple sclerosis diagnosis in Africa, including challenges and efforts to improve care. Show citation: Sahu M, Chomba M, Duodu F, Diaz MM, Sokhi D, Saylor D. The Current State of Diagnostics for Neuroimmun ... Show More

Dr. Elizabeth Coon and Dr. Lucy Norcliffe-Kaufmann discuss the mechanism-based therapy with ampreloxetine for neurogenic orthostatic hypotension in multiple system atrophy, highlighting recent clinical trial results and future directions. Show citation: Freeman R, Kaufmann H, Bia ... Show More

Dr. Margarita Fedorova explores sex-related differences in the pharmacokinetics of levodopa among levodopa-naïve patients with PD and evaluates their relationships with levodopa-related complications. Show citation: Conti V, De Bellis E, Corbi G, et al. Sex differences in levodop ... Show More

New research using functional brain imaging reveals that many patients considered to be in a coma or vegetative state and who are unresponsive may actually be conscious and aware. A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2408662. 

<p>Dr. Derek Stitt talks with Dr. Karin Diserens about subtle signs and motor behavior to unveil awareness in unresponsive brain-impaired individuals.</p> <p>Read the related article in <a href= "https://n.neurology.org/content/early/2023/02/28/WNL.0000000000207067" target="_blan ... Show More

Dr. Jason Crowell talks with Dr. Nico U. F. Dosenbach about the brain's action mode network, focusing on resting state functional connectivity and the significance of the action mode network in relation to other networks. Read the related article in Nature Reviews Neuroscience. D ... Show More

Today, we're going in depth on traumatic brain injuries. James Tytko speaks with Dawn Astle, daughter of former England striker Jeff Astle, about the finding that his death was linked to head trauma sustained during his playing career. Also, Prof Peter Hutchinson gives an overvie ... Show More

After a terrible accident, a woman wakes up in the hospital with a traumatic brain injury. She records her experiences with doctors and friends, as she grapples in real time with the way her brain has changed. CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta talks to her about he ... Show More

Dr. Adrian Owen, a renowned neuroscientist, discovered that individuals in a persistent coma could still communicate- and he went one step further and listened to what they wanted to say. He’s also performed the largest sleep and cognition study in the world, and demonstrated why ... Show More

Dr. Alex Menze talks with Dr. Marianne Chanti-Ketterl about the association between traumatic brain injury and cognitive decline among older veteran men. Read the related article in Neurology. Visit NPUb.org/Podcast for associated article links. 

Melvyn Bragg and guests examine the relationship between the mind and the brain as they discuss recent developments in Neuroscience. In the mid-19th century a doctor had a patient who had suffered a stroke. The patient was unable to speak save for one word. The word was ‘Tan’ whi ... Show More

Dr. Halley Alexander talks with Dr. Vineet Punia about factors influencing the decision to continue or discontinue anti-seizure medications at discharge for patients hospitalized with acute symptomatic seizures.  Read the related article in JAMA.   Disclosures can be found at Neu ... Show More

<p>Dr. Justin Abbatemarco talks with Dr. Ahmad Nehme about the complexities of diagnosing and differentiating between cerebral amyloid angiopathy-related inflammation and biopsy-positive primary angiitis of the central nervous system.</p> <p>Read the related article in <a href= " ... Show More