About this episode
1) Blood pressure management in stroke and 2) Topic of the month: Neuro-infectious diseases. 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. Bryan Eckerle interviews Dr. Ritvij Bowry about his paper on blood pressure management in stroke. Dr. Adam Numis is reading our e-Pearl of the week about Ondine's curse. In the next part of the podcast Dr. Chenjie Xia interviews Dr. Karen Roos about Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, its clinical symptoms, signs, natural course and treatment. The participants had nothing to disclose except Drs. Numis and Roos.Dr. Numis serves on the editorial team for the Neurology® Resident and Fellow Section. Dr. Roos receives royalties for five published books.