April 22 2014 Issue

1) Migraine trait symptoms in migraine with and without aura and 2) Topic of the month: Therapeutics in epilepsy. 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. Mike Sowell interviews Dr. Tim Jürgens about his paper on migraine trait symptoms in migraine with and without aura. Dr. Adam Numis is reading our e-Pearl of the week about idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus. In the next part of the podcast Dr. Lara Marcuse interviews Dr. Elinor Ben-Menachem about epilepsy therapeutics: Vigabatrin. The participants had nothing to disclose except Drs. Jürgens, Numis and Ben-Menachem.Dr. Jurgens serves as an editorial board member of ISRN Pain, serves as Visiting Editor of the Journal of Headache and Pain; is a consultant for Autonomic Technologies, Inc.; received speaker honoraria from Allergan, Inc., Pfizer Inc, MSD (commercial), Autonomic Technologies, Inc., DAGFA (non-profit), Kinderhospiz Sternenbrucke (non-commercial), received funding for Travel from MSD (commercial), Autonomic Technologies, Inc., DAGFA (non-profit), Kinderhospiz Sternenbrucke (non-commercial), Deutsche Migrane- und Kopfschmerzgesellschaft (non-commercial),) Deutsche Schmerzgesellschaft (non-commercial); serves as a board member of Deutsche Migrane- und Kopfschmerzgesellschaft; receives research support from Allergan, Inc. and Deutsche Migrane- und Kopfschmerzgesellschaft.Dr. Numis serves on the editorial team for the Neurology® Resident and Fellow Section. Dr. Ben-Menachem serves as Editor of Acta Neurologica Scanidnavica; receives funding for travel from Eisai Inc., UCB, ElectroCore Medical, LLC.