March 12 2013 Issue

1) Pitfalls in electronic health records 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. Mike Brogan interviews Dr. Jim Bernat about his paper on pitfalls in electronic health records. Dr. Stacey Clardy is reading our e-Pearl of the week about Aicardi-Goutieres syndrome. In the next part of the podcast Dr. Ted Burns interviews Drs. Susan Perlman and Jeremy Schmahmann about the topic of other acquired cerebellar ataxias. The participants had nothing to disclose except Drs Bernat, Clardy, Burns, Perlman and Schmahmann.Dr. Bernat serves as an editorial board member of Neurocritical Care, Neurology Today and Multiple Sclerosis and Related Diseases, receives compensation for serving on the editorial board of The Physician's Index for Ethics and Medicine and receives royalties from the publication of the book Ethical issues in Neurology.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.