May 23, 2011
1) Results from International Lamotrigine Pregnancy Registry and 2) Topic of the month: Featured speakers from the AAN Meeting. 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. Juliana Lockman interviews Dr. Marianne Cunningham about her paper showing results from the International Lamotrigine Pregnancy Registry. In the next segment, Dr. Sarah Song is reading our e-Pearl of the week about stroke and HIV. In the next part of the podcast Dr. Alberto Espay interviews Dr. Jasper Daube about the Houston H. Merritt Lecture. To listen to the complete plenary sessions from our Lesson of the Week this month, go to http://www.cmeoncall.com/aan/index.html. The participants had nothing to disclose except Drs. Cunningham, Song, Espay and Daube.Dr. Cunnington is a full-time salaried employee of GlaxoSmithKline, in which she holds stock options.Dr. Song served on the editorial team for the Neurology® Resident and Fellow Section. Dr. Espay serves on scientific advisory boards for Boehringer Ingelheim and Solvay Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; serves on the editorial advisory board for The European Neurological Journal; has received speaker honoraria from UCB/SCHWARZ PHARMA, Medtronic, Inc., and Novartis; has received honoraria from Novartis, the American Academy of Neurology, and the Movement Disorders Society; has served on speakers' bureaus for UCB/SCHWARZ PHARMA and Novartis; receives/has received research support from Medtronic, Inc., Allergan, Inc., CleveMed, the KL2 Research Scholars mentored career development award, and NIH Institutional Clinical and Translational Science Award (RR026315-02), Dean Scholar's Award - University of Cincinnati, Davis Phinney Foundation, and the Michael J Fox Foundation. Dr. Daube receives royalties from the American Academy of Neurology and the American Association of Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medicine for teach CD's.