November 18 2014 Issue

1) Dietary treatment in adults with refractory epilepsy and 2) Topic of the month: Movement disorder emergencies. 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. Lara Marcuse interviews Dr. Pavel Klein about his paper on dietary treatment in adults with refractory epilepsy. Dr. Adam Numis is reading our e-Pearl of the week about intraventricular neurocysticercosis. In the next part of the podcast Dr. David Taplinger interviews Dr. Steven Frucht about the movement disorder emergency: dystonic storm. The participants had nothing to disclose except Drs. Klein, Numis and Frucht.Dr. Klein serves on the scientific advisory board for Eisai Inc., Sunovion Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Acorda Therapeutics.; serves on the speakers' boards of UCB, Eisai Inc., Sunovion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; receives research support from UCB, SK Life Science, Inc., Marinus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Lundbeck Inc.Dr. Numis serves on the editorial team for the Neurology® Resident and Fellow Section. Dr. Frucht is a consultant for Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC and Impax Pharmaceuticals and receives royalties from the publication of the book Movement Disorders Emergencies.