The Neurology Lounge

I am joined in this podcast by Danielle Newport Fancher to explore the patient perspective of migraine as portrayed in her illness memoir titled 10: A Memoir of Migraine Survival. Danielle Fancher is a writer, migraine advocate, and speaker who has received awards from the National Headache Foundation and The…

In this episode, I review the pathological and clinical dimensions of migraine, the most common disabling neurological disorder. I tried to capture migraine’s diverse disabling recurrent symptoms, from its risk factors, triggers and prodrome to the aura, the headache, and multiple heightened sensitivities. To illustrate the lived experience of migraine,…

In this episode, I am joined by Nicholas Silvestri, Professor of Neurology at the University at Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, where he is also Associate Dean for Student and Academic Affairs. He is board-certified in neurology, neuromuscular medicine, and electrodiagnostic medicine. Our conversation covers the full…

In this episode I explore the autoimmune neurological disorder, myasthenia gravis. I explore its classical manifestations as ocular and generalised myasthenia, and highlight its complications such as refractory myasthenia and myasthenic crisis. The podcast also discusses the pathogenesis and triggers of the disease, its various mimics, and its indispensable investigations.…

I am joined in this episode by neurologist Thomas Bird to discuss his long professional experience of managing Huntington’s disease. Thomas Bird is Professor Emeritus of Neurology and Medical Genetics at the University of Washington in Seattle. He was previously Chief of Neurology at the Seattle VA Medical Center, and…

In this short podcast, I count down 10 clinical features that accompany tremors which indicate that the tremor is not the result of Parkinson’s disease.   Watch it on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Q7T-z5wYkHc   Listen to it on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7oyrBC7wU9pLWiRXZLhtlj   Listen to it on RSS feed: https://rss.com/podcasts/theneurologylounge/1741206/ Listen to it on…

In this episode, I explore one of the most visually dramatic neurological disorders, along with its diverse and debilitating symptoms. I explored the history of the disease, describing how George Huntington came to know about it, and how his paper documenting the involvement of a Long Island pedigree in New…

I am joined in this podcast by Anne Fadiman to discuss her classical book The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, her account of the cross-cultural conflicts between a Hmong family and the American medical system. The book won a National Book Critics Circle Award, a Los Angeles Times…

In this episode, I trace the history of the development of EEG and MRI, the two key investigation tools of epilepsy. This explores the roles played by neuroscientists Hans Berger and Edgar Adrian, and physicists Paul Lauterbur, Peter Mansfield, and Raymond Damadian. I also use the fascinating memoir, The Letter…

In this episode, I am joined by Franziska Thomas to explore her almost life-long history of experiencing epilepsy. She traces the onset of her epilepsy and the daily seizures she experiences since her first seizure in 1992, when she said her whole world literally turned upside down. Franziska describes ‘Fits…