Sage Neuroscience and Neurology

Dr. Z Paige Lerario (they/them), vascular neurologist and MSW candidate at Fordham University and transgender activist, and Gabriel Glissmeyer (he/him), Project Specialist at the National LGBT Cancer Network in Salt Lake City, Utah, talk about involving transgender and gender diverse patients in research, and supporting our gender diverse colleagues.

Luca Bartolini, MD, pediatric epileptologist, assistant professor and director of the Pediatric Epilepsy Program at Hasbro Children’s Hospital talks about his journey to becoming editor-in-chief of Neurology: Clinical Practice.

Dr. Christy talks with Dara Albert, DO, pediatric epileptologist, associate professor and medical director of the multi-disciplinary Psychogenic Non-epileptic Events Clinic at Nationwide Children's Hospital talks about the presentation, work-up, diagnosis and treatment of functional neurological disorders.

Dr. Christy talks to Dr. Jaclyn Martindale, assistant professor and director of the Pediatric Movement Disorders Clinic and Comprehensive Tourette Syndrome and Tic Disorder Clinic at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist.

@Dr_JMartindale (Twitter)

Dr. Christy talks to Dr. Jaclyn Martindale, assistant professor and director of the Pediatric Movement Disorders Clinic and Comprehensive Tourette Syndrome and Tic Disorder Clinic at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist.

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Dr. Christy talks with Grace Gombolay, Pediatric Neuroimmunologist at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and Assistant Professor at Emory University School of Medicine.

@GraceGombolayMD

JCN: Post-COVID Neurological Disorders and Autoimmune Encephalitis

JCN: Neuroinflammation

Dr. Christy talks to Dr. Mary Rensel, a neuroimmunologist at Cleveland Clinic and creator of the time-management system Brain Fresh, talks about the reasons physicians – especially women – are leaving medicine right now, and what we can do about it.

Dr. Christy talks to Dr. Monica Lemmon, pediatric neurologist and associate professor in pediatrics and population health sciences at Duke Department of Pediatrics, and winner of the 2021 Philip R. Dodge Young Investigator Award from the Child Neurology Society, discusses her work understanding how we communicate with patients and families – and how we can improve that communication.

Dr. Sonika Agarwal of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia talks to Audrey Vernick about her experience with pediatric epilepsy from a parent's perspective. 

https://www.brainrecoveryproject.org/

Dr. Geetanjali Rathore, Associate Professor, Pediatric Neurology, UNMC, Omaha talks with parents of children diagnosed with congenital CMV to hear what they think all parents and healthcare providers should know about CMV.

https://www.nationalcmv.org/

Dr. Laura Kirkpatrick, resident in pediatric neurology at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, talks about how to counsel adolescents and their families about epilepsy and reproductive health.

Pediatric Neurologists’ Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health Care for Adolescent and Young Adult Women With Epilepsy and Intellectual Disability in the October 2021 issue of JCN.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/08830738211041824

A physician and parent talks anonymously about her experience with her daughter’s seizures.

An interview with Dr. Jennifer Bain, pediatric neurologist and assistant professor at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

An interview with Dr. Felicia Gliksman, pediatric neurologist and director of the Concussion Center at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey.

Dr. Hope O’Brien, headache specialist and Associate Editor for headache at JCN, talks about opening her own clinic for headache medicine – The Headache Center of Hope – in Cincinnati, Ohio.

https://www.hcohcincy.com/hope-obrien

Dr. Christy talks with Dr. Michael Msall, professor of pediatrics at the Pritzer School of Medicine at the University of Chicago and co-director of the Kennedy Research Center on Intellectual and Neurodevelopmental Disabilities. 

Dr. Amal Abu Libdeh, pediatric neurologist and movement disorders specialist at the University of Virginia, talks about the challenges that face international medical school graduates, what they bring to the table in pediatric neurology, and how we can help and support them.

Dr. Brenda Banwell, pediatric neurologist and neuroimmunologist and chief of neurology at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, talks about how pediatric neurologists can get involved with the AAN to advocate for their patients, find phenomenal mentors and further their own careers. https://www.aan.com/

Dr. Nina Schor, deputy director of the NINDS, talks about her career, her research, her poetry and her current work in equity and diversity. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0883073813483173

Dr. Grace Gombolay, Pediatric Neurologist at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Assistant Professor at Emory University School of Medicine, talks about recent research from her lab and from the University of California-San Francisco.

Interview with Dr. Jennifer Vermilion, Pediatric Neurologist and Assistant Professor at the University of Rochester.

In this podcast, Dr. Aliya Frederick interviews Dr. Bernard Chang and Dr. Steve Wu about transcranial magnetic stimulation, a non-invasive method of brain stimulation.

Dr. Chang is a professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School and division chief for Epilepsy and EEG at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Dr. Wu is an associate professor in pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati and a pediatric neurologist and director of the Dystonia Clinic at Cincinnati Children's Hospital.

Dr. Aliya Frederick is a child neurologist at Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego and an assistant clinical professor of neurosciences and pediatrics at UC San Diego. She also an associate editor for epilepsy for Child Neurology Open.

Dr. Rachel Gottlieb-Smith, Pediatric Neurologist, Assistant Professor and Residency Program Director at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor discusses the residency application process in Pediatric Neurology. 

Dr. Geetanjali Rathore, Pediatric Neurologist, Associate Professor of Neurosciences and Clinical Director of the CMT clinic at the University of Nebraska discusses Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. 

Dr. Taryn Liu, Pediatric Neurology Resident at Loma Linda University Children's Hospital interviews Dr. Lisa Shulman of the Rose F. Kennedy Center Children’s Evaluation and Rehabilitation Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore in Bronx, NY about her March 2019 article published in the Journal of Child Neurology: “When an Early Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder Resolves, What Remains?” This podcast was originally recorded in the summer of 2019.

Dr. Alison Christy interviews Dr. Bhooma Aravamuthan of Washington University in St. Louis about Cerebral Palsy, diagnosis, and her research. 

Papers discussed:

Smith, SE et al. (2021). Adults with cerebral palsy require ongoing neurologic care: A systematic review. Annals of Neurology. May;89(5)860-871.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ana.26040

Aravamuthan, BR et al. (2021). Variability in cerebral palsy diagnosis. Pediatrics. Feb; 147(2): e2020010066

https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/147/2/e2020010066.long

Aravamuthan, BR et al. (2020). Role of child neurologists and neurodevelopmentalists in the diagnosis of cerebral palsy: A survey study. Neurology. Nov 24;95(21)962-972

https://n.neurology.org/content/95/21/962.long

Dr. Alison Christy interviews Dr. William Flanary, the Ophthalmologist behind the popular tik tok and twitter account: Dr. Glaucomflecken.  Dr. Glaucomflecken Twitter

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Dr. Sonika Agarwal of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia talks about Cortical malformations: Polymicrogyria, pachygyria, lissencephaly, heterotopia.

Dr. Sonika Agarwal of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia talks about Dandy Walker malformations.

Dr. Sonika Agarwal of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia talks about prenatal brain hemorrhage.

Dr. Sonika Agarwal of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia talks about absent septum pellucidum and septo-optic dysplasia.

Dr. Sonika Agarwal of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia talks about fetal cerebral ventriculomegaly.

Dr. Sonika Agarwal of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia talks about Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum.

Dr. Sonika Agarwal of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia interviews Mary Kay Ballasiotes, pediatric stroke advocate and parent of a child with cerebral palsy from a stroke at birth. Learn more at the International Alliance for Pediatric Stroke.

Dr. Sonika Agarwal of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia talks about prematurity and the brain.

JCN's Residents and Fellows Board Director, Dr. Alison Christy, interviews Dr. Sonika Agarwal, a neonatal neurologist from Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia.

JCN's Residents and Fellows Board Director, and CNO's Editor in Chief, Dr. Alison Christy, interviews Dr. Tracy Gertler of  Northwestern University and Dr. Autumn Ivy of Children's Hospital of California at UC-Irvine about ongoing challenges for academic pediatric neurologists during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

JCN's Residents and Fellows Board Director, Dr. Alison Christy, interviews Dr. Farida Abid, Assistant Professor in Pediatric Neurology at Texas Children’s Hospital about Neuromuscular disease.

JCN's Residents and Fellows Board Director, Dr. Alison Christy, interviews with Dr. Lauren Treat of Children’s Hospital Colorado about Neuropalliative Care.

JCN's Residents and Fellows Board Director, Dr. Alison Christy, interviews Dr. Brenda Banwell, chair of neurology at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia about Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunologic Disease.

JCN's Residents and Fellows Board Director, Dr. Alison Christy, interviews Dr. Svetlana Blitshteyn, Director of Dysautonomia Clinic and Amherst Neurology, and Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurology at University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences about Postural Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS).

In this episode Dr. Alison Christy, Director of JCN and CNO's Residents and Fellows Board, interviews Dr. Marc Patterson, Editor in Chief of JCN and CNO. Their discussion covers the journals' mission, his career journey and research interests, and finally advice for authors and reviewers working in academic publishing. 

JCN's Residents and Fellows Board Director, Dr. Alison Christy, interviews Dr. Aliya Frederick, a Fellow in pediatric epilepsy at UCSD and a member of the JCN & CNO Residents and Fellows board about her experiences getting into medicine and pediatric neurology; Dr. Frederick then interviews Dr. Eseosa Ighodaro, a Resident in adult neurology at Mayo Clinic. Finally, Dr. Frederick interviews Dr. Joshua Bonkowsky, Chair of Pediatric Neurology at the University of Utah, about his article "Disparities in Pediatric Epilepsy Remission Are Associated With Race and Ethnicity," published September 2019 in JCN.

JCN's Residents and Fellows Board Director, Dr. Alison Christy, interviews Dr. Samiya Ahmed from Baylor College of Medicine in San Antonio, Texas on sleep. 

Read more at the Journal of Child Neurology and Child Neurology Open. 

JCN's Residents and Fellows Board Director, Dr. Alison Christy, interviews Dr. Inna Hughes of the University of Rochester on epilepsy. 

Read more at the Journal of Child Neurology and Child Neurology Open.

JCN's Residents and Fellows Board Director, Dr. Alison Christy, interviews Dr. Paige Kalika of the University of Miami on ADHD. 

Read more at the Journal of Child Neurology and Child Neurology Open. 

JCN's Residents and Fellows Board Director, Dr. Alison Christy, interviews Dr. Samantha Irwin of UCSF on headaches.  Read more from the Journal of Child Neurology and Child Neurology Open.

Dr. Angela Curcio of Columbia University Medical Center and a member of JCN and CNO's Residents & Fellows Board interviews Dr. Rana Said of UT Southwestern Medical Center on her research on infantile spasms and career in pediatric neurology. For more information, please check out Dr. Said's article published in The Journal of Child Neurology: "Outcomes of High-Dose Steroid Therapy for Infantile Spasms in Children With Trisomy 21".

Dr. Alison Christy interviews Dr. Natalie Guido Estrada, a pediatric neurologist at Rady Children’s Hospital about how her department shifted to telemedicine quickly, and Dr. Max Perelman, a resident at Oregon Health and Sciences University to hear their experience as a trainee in this time. Finally, Dr. Christy interviews Dr. Heather Lau, of New York University, on how she continues her research and clinical work in the middle of the surge in New York City.

Dr. Alison Christy speaks with Dr. Jurriaan Peters of Boston Children’s Hospital about their article published in JCN "The Evolution of Subclinical Seizures in Children With Tuberous Sclerosis Complex". Then Dr. Christine Park of Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio gives an overview of the disease. Finally, Dr. Alison Christy interviews Dr. Derek Bauer of the University of Virginia on their personal connection with the disease as well as their career path.

In this podcast, Dr. Kathryn Elkins of Emory University and member of JCN's Residents and Fellows board interviews Dr. Eric Kossoff of Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore about his article: A Proof-of-Principle, Case-Control Study to Compensate for Potential Carbohydrates in Liquid Antiseizure Drugs in Children on the Ketogenic Diet, as well as Dr.  Christina Bergqvist and Ms. Cagla Fenton about the Benefits of a Ketogenic Teaching Kitchen.

In this podcast, Dr. Alison Christy interviews Dr. Joshua Bonkowsky about his article:  “Scope and Burden of Non-Standard of Care Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation in Pediatric Leukodystrophy Patients.” She also interviews Dr. Adeline Vanderver, Pediatric Neurologist and Program Director of the Leukodystrophy Center of Excellence at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

In this podcast, Dr. Michael Fehlings discusses best practices for publishing in scientific journals. 

In this podcast, one of Global Spine Journal's Editors-in-Chief, Karsten Wiechert, interviews Julius Dengler about his article "Risk Factors for Continued Opioid Use in Conservative Versus Surgical Management of Low Back Pain Originating From the Sacroiliac Joint." 

In this podcast, Dr. Alison Christy interviews Dr. David Howell about his article "Objective Eye Tracking Deficits Following Concussion for Youth Seen in a Sports Medicine Setting." She also interviews Dr. Barry Kosofsky, Chief Pediatric Neurologist at Weill Cornell Medicine, about how he became interested in concussion. 

In this podcast, one of Global Spine Journal's Editors-in-Chief, Jeff Wang, interviews Emre Acaroğlu about his article "The Influence of Diagnosis, Age, and Gender on Surgical Outcomes in Patients With Adult Spinal Deformity."

In this podcast, one of Global Spine Journal's Editors-in-Chief, Jeff Wang, interviews Andrew S. Chung about his article "Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Elective Spine Surgery: National Prevalence and Inpatient Outcomes." 

In this podcast, Dr. Alison Christy interviews Nina Natarajan about Phenobarbitol use. She also talks with Sookyong Koh about her article, Role of Neuroinflammation in Evolution of Childhood Epilepsy. The podcast ends with an interview with Shlomo Shinnar, Pediatric Epileptologist. 

In this podcast, Dr. Alison Christy interviews Réjean Guerriero about his article, The Association Between Premorbid Conditions in School-Aged Children With Prolonged Concussion Recovery. She also interviews Meeryo Choe about her concussion clinic at UCLA. 

In this podcast, one of Global Spine Journal's Editors-in-Chief, Jeff Wang, interviews Michael Grevitt on his article "Total Disc Replacement Versus Anterior-Posterior Interbody Fusion in the Lumbar Spine and Lumbosacral Junction: A Cost Analysis."

In this podcast, Dr. Alison Christy interviews Pradip Kamat from Emory University about his article, Outpatient Procedural Sedation of Patients With Autism Spectrum Disorders for Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain Using Propofol. She also interviews Melissa Svoboda from Baylor College of Medicine in San Antonio. For more information on NDD, please click here. 

In this podcast, one of Global Spine Journal's Editors-in-Chief, Karsten Wiechert, interviews Juan Pablo Guyot on his article "Lumbar Selective Nerve Root Block: Comparative Study Using Two Pharmacological Formulae."

In this podcast, Dr. Alison Christy interviews Lyndsey Collins-Praino from the Adelaide Medical School about her article, Medullary Astrogliosis in Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Varies With Sleeping Environment: Evidence for Different Mechanisms of Death in Alone Versus Co-sleepers? She also interviews Kathryn McFadden from the University of Michigan. To read Dr. Lucy Rorke-Adams' autobiography mentioned in this podcast, please click here. 

In this podcast, one of Global Spine Journal's Editors-in-Chief, Jens Chapman, interviews Sigurd Berven on his article, "Correlation Between Lumbopelvic and Sagittal Parameters and Health-Related Quality of Life in Adults With Lumbosacral Spondylolisthesis".

In this podcast, one of Global Spine Journal's Editors-in-Chief, Karsten Wiechert, interviews S. Tim Yoon on his article, "ACDF Graft Selection by Surgeons: Survey of AOSpine Members".

In this podcast, one of Global Spine Journal's Editors-in-Chief, Jeff Wang, interviews Owoicho Adogwa on his article, "Effect of Social Support and Marital Status on Perceived Surgical Effectiveness and 30-Day Hospital Readmission".

In this podcast, one of Global Spine Journal's Editor-In-Chiefs, Jens Chapman, interviews Samuel K. Cho on his article, "Multi-Rod Constructs Can Prevent Rod Breakage and Pseudarthrosis at the Lumbosacral Junction in Adult Spinal Deformity".

In this podcast, one of Global Spine Journal's Editor-In-Chiefs, Jeff wang, interviews Frank L. Acosta, Jr. on his article, "A Novel Lumbar Motion Segment Classification to Predict Changes in Segmental Sagittal Alignment After Lateral Interbody Fixation".

In this podcast, one of Global Spine Journal's Editor-In-Chiefs, Jens Chapman, interviews Lorin Michael Benneker on his article, "Short Posterior Stabilization in Combination With Cement Augmentation for the Treatment of Thoracolumbar Fractures and the Effects of Implant Removal".

In this podcast, Dr. Alison Christy interviews Sarah Lee from Stanford  and Gabrielle deVeber from Sick Kids in Toronto about their article, Moyamoya Disease in Children: Results From the International Pediatric Stroke Study. She also interviews Lisa Sun from Johns Hopkins University.

In this podcast, one of Global Spine Journal's Editor-In-Chiefs, Jeff Wang, interviews Lindsay A. Tetreault on her article featured in the special issue "Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy and Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury": "Change in Functional Impairment, Disability, and Quality of Life Following Operative Treatment for Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis".

A conversation with Dr. Sara K. Rostanski, Assistant Professor from the NYU department of Neurology, discussing her article, "Email Is an Effective Tool for Rapid Feedback in Acute Stroke." Dr. Rostanski notes that there are well-established mechanisms that hospitals can adapt to improve door-to-needle time.

In this podcast, one of Global Spine Journal's Editor-In-Chiefs, Jeff Wang, interviews Michael G. Fehlings on two of his articles featured in the special issue "Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy and Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury": "Efficacy and Safety of Methylprednisolone Sodium Succinate in Acute Spinal Cord Injury: A Systematic Review" and "A Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Patients With Acute Spinal Cord Injury: Recommendations on the Use of Methylprednisolone Sodium Succinate".

Dr. John C. Probasco and Dr. Hans Adrian Puttgen from the Department of Neurology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital return to the NHOS podcast to discuss their paper "Many Neurology Readmissions Are Nonpreventable."

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In part 2 of this month's Journal of Child Neurology podcast, Dr. Alison Christy interviews Dr. Phillip Pearl about his career track, epilepsy research and his career as a jazz musician. Check out his article “Neurological Problems of Jazz Legends”.

In part 1 of this month's Journal of Child Neurology podcast, Dr. Alison Christy interviews Dr. Zachary Grinspan on his article “Increasing Ketamine Use for Refractory Status Epilepticus in US Pediatric Hospitals”.

In this podcast, one of Global Spine Journal's Editor-In-Chiefs, Jeff Wang, interviews Zachary Smith on his article, "Thirty-Day Readmission Risk Factors Following Single-Level Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion (TLIF) for 4992 Patients From the ACS-NSQIP Database".

In this podcast, Global Spine Journal's Editor-In-Chief of the EBSJ section, Jens Chapman, MD, interviews Jim A. Youssef on his article, A Retrospective Analysis of Complications Associated With Bone Morphogenetic Protein 2 in Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion.

In this podcast, Global Spine Journal's Editor-In-Chief, Karsten Wiechert, MD, interviews Jose Alfredo Corredor on his article, Assessment of a Learning Strategy among Spine Surgeons.