Neurology® Podcast

1) PML diagnostic criteria: Consensus statement from AAN Neuroinfectious Disease Section and 2) Topic of the month: Stroke trials. 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. Andy Southerland interviews Dr. Joseph Berger about the consensus paper from the PML Guidelines Committee of the AAN Neuroinfectious Disease Section. Dr. Andy Numis is reading our e-Pearl of the week about spinal epidural abscesses. In the next part of the podcast Dr. Brett Kissela interviews Dr. Marc Chimowitz about SAMMPRIS trial. The participants had nothing to disclose except Drs. Berger, Numis, Kissela and Chimowitz.Dr. Berger serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Neurovirology, serves as an editorial board member of ISRN Education, Neuroscience, World Journal of Rheumatology and MS and other related disorders; serves on the PML adjudication committees of Millenium/Taked