Neurology® Podcast

1) Traumatic brain injury and risk of dementia in older veterans and 2) Topic of the month: Plenary sessions AAN Meeting April 2014. 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. Farrah Mateen interviews Dr. Deborah Barnes about her paper on traumatic brain injury and risk of dementia in older veterans. Dr. James Addington is reading our e-Pearl of the week about chronic traumatic encephalopathy. In the next part of the podcast Dr. Alberto Espay interviews Dr. Jon Stone about his Contemporary Clinical Issues Lecture at the AAN Meeting about functional (psychogenic) disorders in neurology. The participants had nothing to disclose except Drs. Mateen, Barnes, Addington, Espay and Stone.Dr. Mateen received funding support from the Canadian Institute of Health Research.Dr. Barnes receives research support from UCB, Department of Defense, Department of Veterans Affa