The Neurology Lounge

Category: GENERAL

  • The 50 Most Engaging Questions of The Neurology Lounge Podcast in 2024

    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…

  • The 30 Most Viewed Neurology Lounge Podcasts of 2024

    The Neurology Lounge Podcast launched on 26 May 2024, and it has made great strides over the last 7 months. The YouTube channel now has more than >540 subscribers, garnered almost 27,500 content views, and clocked up more than >1000 watch-hours. And the content consists so far of 28 monologues,…

  • Episode 5. Whiteout – The Peril of the Parkinson’s Brain

    In this episode I explore the history and pathology of Parkinson’s disease. I use anecdotes from fascinating patient anecdotes, such as that of cardiologist Thomas Graboys, to review the clinical manifestations of the disease. I discuss how Adolf Hitler’s Parkinson’s disease may have influenced the course of World War II,…

  • Episode 2. Entanglement: What Alois Alzheimer Saw

    2This podcast explores the early history and the clinical manifestations of Alzheimer’s disease. I trace the history of the scientific understanding of the disease with reference to neuroscientists Alois Alzheimer, Oscar Fischer and Arnold Pick, and the first two patients, Auguste Deter and Johan F. I also review the management…

  • Episode 1. Heritage – In Quest of Neurology’s Ancestors

    In this introductory podcast episode, I explore the ancient history of Neurology, and I link this to the principle of neurological localization. I make historical references, especially to the Incans of Peru, and to the French neurologist Paul Broca. Watch it on YouTube:  https://youtu.be/jcazC4iWlmA?si=fNOkuWq1U9A_XREa   Listen to it on Spotify:…

  • The Neurology Lounge: blog to podcast transition

    The Neurology Lounge blog launched in 2015… And it successfully spurned a book – Surfing the Brain.     Alas, blogging is becoming a dying art… And the bells are inevitably tolling.     But there is still so much neurology to explore in 2024.     So, to keep…