Neurology® Podcast

1) Development and validation of a clinical guideline for diagnosing blepharospasm and 2) Topic of the month: AAN Plenary Sessions. 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. Binit Shah interviews Dr. Giovanni Defazio about his paper on development and validation of a clinical guideline for diagnosing blepharospasm. Dr. Roy Strowd is reading our e-Pearl of the week about iatrogenic botulism. In the next part of the podcast Dr. Alberto Espay interviews Dr. Salvatore DiMauro about his Robert Wartenberg Lecture on Mitochondrial encephalomyopathies: 50 years on. The participants had nothing to disclose except Drs. Defazio, Strowd, Espay and DiMauro.Dr. Defazio receives research support from the Italian Ministry of University and Comitato Promotore Telethon.Dr. Strowd serves on the editorial team for the Neurology® Resident and Fellow Section. Dr. Espay is suppo