November 10 2009 Issue

This Podcast for the Neurology Journal begins and closes with Dr. Robert Gross, Interim Editor-in-Chief, briefly discussing highlighted articles from the print issue of Neurology. In the second segment Dr. Matthew Barrett interview Drs. Pablo Martinez-Martin and K. Ray Chaudhuri about their paper on non-motor symptoms scale in Parkinson disease. In the next segment, Dr. Ryan Overman is reading our e-Pearl of the week about varicella zoster virus can mimic Guillain-Barre syndrome. The podcast concludes where Dr. Ted Burns interviews Dr. David Loring for the Lesson of the Week on psychometric properties. The participants had nothing to disclose except Drs. Martinez-Martin and Chaudhuri. Dr. Martinez-Martin served on a scientific advisory board for Novartis; serves on the editorial boards of Neurologia, the Spanish Society of Neurology, Revista de Neurologia, and Societies of Neurology of the Spanish autonomous regions; has received speaker honoraria from Sanofi aventis and Novartis; and receives research support from Novartis and the Carlos III Institute of Health.Dr. Chaudhuri serves on scientific advisory boards for Solvay Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Boehringer Ingelheim, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck Serono, and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd.; has received speaker honoraria from the European Federation of Neurological Societies, the Swedish Movement Disorders Society, and LIMPE Italy; and receives research support for a clinical research nurse from UCB.