The Neurotransmitters: Clinical Neurology Education

Send us a Text Message.How do you overcome the obstacles in providing quality healthcare to individuals with disabilities? Dr. Samantha Stallkamp, PGY-1 at the University of Rochester Neurology, shares her journey inspired by her sister with spina bifida and her mother with multiple sclerosis. This episode is a heartfelt exploration of how personal experiences fuel professional asp

Send us a Text Message.Join us for an insightful conversation with Dr. Yousaf on pediatric headache care. Discover how his journey from adult neurology to specializing in pediatric headaches is reshaping transition care, and the unique psychosocial and developmental factors that influence young patients. Learn about the different ways migraine can present in children and how the ma

Send us a Text Message.We continue our general survey of neurology with an overview of the spinal cord.Things we cover in this podcast:Signs and Symptoms of MyelopathyBreakdown of some causes of compressive versus non-compressive myelopathiesInfectionsNeoplasmsTransverse MyelitisMetabolic CausesVascular MyelopathiesGenetic DisordersThe Neurotransmitters is starting live case based

Send us a Text Message.Dr. Derrick Cheng joins us today for an approach to acute onset weakness!Join us as on our treatment journey from onset to treatment, and think about what you might do if encountering the same clinical situation.Important points we discuss in this episode:The tempo of the disease onsetWhere can we localize the symptoms?Fatigue vs weaknessTriaging patients wit

Send us a Text Message.Meet the Neurotransmitters! In this episode, we go behind the scenes with The Neurotransmitters team: Drs. Tirtha Sawant, Rida Farhan, and Ricardo Vivanco. They reflect on their personal journeys as international medical graduates (IMGs) seeking mentorship and pursuing residency in the US. Struggling to find mentors? Not sure about the dynamics between a ment

Send us a Text Message.Hello and welcome back to our ongoing internal medicine - neurology board review series!Today we are covering multiple sclerosis (MS).Tune in to learn more about What signs & symptoms should prompt concern for MS?What goes into the diagnosis of MS?What does the clinical course of MS look like?What kind of treatments are out there for MS?And this just scra

Send us a Text Message.On popular demand, we invited Dr. Andreas Charidimou once again, to discuss amyloid spells or Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy-related Transient Focal Neurological Episodes (CAA-TFNEs)What are CAA-TFNEs and its suggested pathophysiology? What are some of its differentials?Clinical features of TIA vs TFNE How many TIAs are really CAA-TFNEs? Who to start on anti-sei

Send us a Text Message.Welcome back to our IM Board Prep series, that is designed to help internal medicine residents ace the neurology section of their board exams! This episode is on movement disorders, categorized into hyperkinetic and hypokinetic. In hypokinetic, we cover Parkinsonism vs Parkinson’s disease vs “Parkinson’s plus” syndromes. In hyperkinetic, we focus on t

Send us a Text Message.Join us as Dr. Michael P.H. Stanley, our distinguished guest from Brigham and Women's Hospital, shares an intimate portrait of his fascination with cognitive and behavioral neurology. We discuss the philosophical terrains of the mind-brain dichotomy and cognitive phenomenology, revealing the profound importance of context in the evaluation of symptoms. We tou

Send us a Text Message.Join us today as we go over the basics on some of the following:What is mild cognitive impairment vs dementia?What goes into the evaluation of dementia, both at the bedside and in the labThe basics of different types of dementia like:Alzheimer DiseaseFrontotemporal DementiaDementia with Lewy bodiesVascular DementiaChronic Traumatic EncephalopathyNormal Pressu