Neurology® Podcast

1) Functional psychogenic symptoms and 2) Topic of the month: Stroke and stroke care. 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. Ted Burns interviews Dr. Michael Sharpe about his paper on guided self-help for functional (psychogenic) symptoms. In the next segment, Dr. Jennifer Fugate is reading our e-Pearl of the week about Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome. In the next part of the podcast Dr. Brett Kissela interviews Drs. Ralph Sacco and Larry Goldstein about prevention of stroke part 2. Over the subsequent three weeks, Dr. Kissela will interview Drs. Bo Norrving, Mark Eckman and Tom Brott about other aspects of stroke and stroke care. The participants had nothing to disclose except Drs. Sharpe, Burns, Fugate, Kissela, Sacco and Goldstein.Dr. Sharpe serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Psychosomatic Research and on the editorial boards of General H