An advantage of running a Youtube podcast channel is that one can create one-minute extracts of the main podcast called shorts.

Over the last 7 months, the podcast published almost 300 of these shorts, mostly framed as questions.

As part of taking stock, some of these questions have attracted a disproportionate amount of attention from viewers

Below therefore is the count down of the top 50 engaging questions of 2024!

 

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50. Why was a muscular dystrophy named after Duchenne?

49. Why does seronegative myasthenia gravis exist?

48. What are the major risk factors for multiple sclerosis?

47. What is a petit mal seizure?

46. Why is Huntington’s chorea a misnomer?

45. What did nuns teach us about cognitive reserve?

44. What are the clinical signs of Duchenne muscular dystrophy?

43. What do patients mean when they talk of a cure for Parkinson’s disease?

42. How is Huntington’s disease different in children?

41. What were Jean-Martin Charcot’s red flag triad of multiple sclerosis?

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40. What are the neurological features of Huntington’s disease?

39. Why is Huntington’s disease tricky to diagnose?

38. How effective is ocrelizumab for relapsing and primary progressive MS?

37. What are the pros and cons of invasive ventilation for MND?

36. What was the Miller Fisher approach to functional dystonia?

35. What is transient global amnesia?

34. Why is visual perception like an illusion?

33. Is Parkinson’s disease a prion-like disorder?

32. How may you recognise dystonic tremor?

31. How did my son’s Duchenne muscular dystrophy begin?

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30. Why is chorea difficult to describe?

29. How is dreaming an unforgiving battle for brain real estate?

28. Is the staying power of levodopa good or bad?

27. Why does the face laugh while the brain cries?

26. Which Canadian neurosurgeon found a grotesque little man in the brain?

25. How did a Nobel laureate rescue EEG from the doldrums?

24. What is a grand mal seizure?

23. What has anosmia got to do with Alzheimer’s disease?

22. What are my pet peeves about neurology?

21. What Nobel controversy overshadowed the discovery of MRI?

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20. Should Alzheimer’s disease be called Fischer’s disease?

19. How did humans become vulnerable to atherosclerosis?

18. Why did Liebniz think of the brain as a mill?

17. How do writers write about their epilepsy?

16. How can we make living with dementia less scary?

15. What terrified me the most after my stroke?

14. Is dementia really death in life?

13. What is happening in the brain when you find blissful spirituality?

12. What happens when a stroke shuts off the left brain hemisphere?

11. What are the Irish, the American, and the Jon Stone approaches to FND?

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10. Why were the ventricles ever considered to be the centres of intellect?

9. How did Shakespeare approach the mystery of the seat of intellect?

8. What should you do if you have a family history of Alzheimer’s disease?

7. Where did Galen place the seat of consciousness?

6. How did Robert Katzman and Rita Hayworth help resuscitate Alzheimer’s disease?

5. Why does Parkinson’s disease favour non-smokers?

4. How did neuroscience lead to the development of the battery?

3. What is the difference between Alzheimer’s disease and Alzheimer’s dementia?

2. What connects MS progression, bankruptcy and Ernest Hemingway?

1. Is it better to have a stroke in the right or the left brain hemisphere?

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