Neurology® Podcast

1) Neuromyelitis optica and 2) Topic of the month: Historical interviews. 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. Pearce Korb interviews Drs. Claudia Lucchinetti and Bogdan Popescu about their paper on neuromyelitis optica unique area postrema lesions. In the next segment, Dr. Stacey Clardy is reading our e-Pearl of the week about striatal hand and foot. In the next part of the podcast Dr. Farrah Mateen interviews Dr. Bud Rowland as part of our month of historical interviews. Over the subsequent three weeks, Dr. Mateen will interview Drs. C. Miller Fisher, Peter Dyck and Jerome Posner. The participants had nothing to disclose except Drs. Lucchinetti, Clardy, Mateen and Rowland.Dr. Lucchinetti may accrue revenue for a patent re: aquaporin-4 associated antibodies for diagnosis of neuromyelitis optica; receives royalties from the publication of Blue Books o