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Back to SearchRethinking Myasthenia Gravis: A global perspective on ABN's latest guidelines
Episode 113
In this special international episode, we explore the 2025 update of the Association of British Neurologists’ guidelines on managing autoimmune myasthenia gravis. Ten years after the previous recomme…
Published on 8 hours ago
The birdsong of the brain, cognitive flexibility, and a guideline update - Editors' Highlights October 2025
Episode 112
Another packed episode for this month's issue of the journal. There's a special emphasis on case reports this time, showing their value as a way to understand the rarely encountered. For the more com…
Published on 2 weeks, 5 days ago
Dangers from the deep, and prolonged pituitary inflammation - Case Reports August 2025
Episode 111
The wonders of the animal kingdom make an absorbing reappearance this episode, so grab your scuba mask before listening - or your chef’s hat.
The first case this month is the kind that even an experi…
Published on 4 weeks, 1 day ago
Health anxiety: patient paradoxes and successful treatment
Episode 110
"This is a disorder that you don't want to miss", says Prof. Jon Stone¹, describing the condition at the heart of this episode, alongside co-author Dr. Huw Green². Their paper "Health anxiety in a ne…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Electrolyte abnormalities, unhelpful reassurance, and the essence of tremor - Editors' Highlights August 2025
Episode 109
Simplification is everything - that's the message for the latest issue of the journal. Assisted by a cast of characters including Albert Einstein and deep sea sponges, your editors Phil Smith and Ger…
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
An international approach to the use of immunoglobulin
Episode 108
In the latest bonus podcast, the practical use of intravenous immunoglobulin is discussed with perspectives from three continents.
Participants:
Professor Alasdair Coles is Head of Department for Cl…Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
The risks of "bariatric tourism", and photophobia with a pustular rash - Case Reports June 2025
Episode 107
Gastric sleeve surgery is the key feature of a pair of recent cases from the journal, which start this episode (1:17). Both cases feature 25-yo women with presentations in common: paraesthesia and li…
Published on 3 months, 1 week ago
New, complicated and evolving: IgG4-related disease
Episode 106
A neuroinflammatory disorder with the potential to affect virtually any organ in the body, IgG4-related disease is a challenge on many fronts. The latest Editors' Choice paper in the June 2025 issue …
Published on 4 months ago
Nutritional perils, the immunoglobulin paradox, and a flickering candle - Editors' Highlights June 2025
Episode 105
This episode’s theme is new diseases, whether they are newly described, or old diseases back in a new form. We start off with IgG4-related disease, a chronic multisystem disorder that is still being …
Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Fragmented sleep with delusions of theft, and falls after eye shingles - Case Reports April 2025
Episode 104
Two wide open cases from the latest issue of the journal. Starting with a case from Italy (1:18), of a 63-yo man having a history of behavioural and cognitive problems since retiring. His many change…
Published on 5 months ago