Jan 14, 2013

1) Incident Parkinson disease and 2) Topic of the month: Headaches. 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. John Morgan interviews Dr. Tien Khoo about his paper on incident Parkinson disease. Dr. Jen Fugate is reading our e-Pearl of the week about paroxysmal dysarthria and ataxia. In the next part of the podcast Dr. Mike Sowell interviews Dr. Alan Finkel about the topic of post-traumatic headache. The participants had nothing to disclose except Drs. Morgan, Khoo, Fugate and Finkel.Dr. Morgan has served on the speakers' bureau of GE Healthcare, GlaxoSmithKline, Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries Ltd., and UCB Pharma; has performed CME for Oakstone Publishing, LLC; is a consultant for Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Chelsea Therapeutics, and Impax Laboratories, Inc.; receives research support from NIH as a sub-investigator and received compensation for review of medical records and expert witness testimony in multiple cases of litigation involving neurological conditions.Dr. Khoo receives speaker honoraria from Teva and Lundbeck; receives funding for travel from GlaxoSmithKline and receives educational support from a grant with UCB Pharma.Dr. Fugate serves on the editorial team for the Neurology® Resident and Fellow Section. Dr. Finkel serves on the speakers' bureau of Allergan, Inc. receives research support from American Headache Society, DVBIC and the American Academy of Neurology.