March 22 2011 Issue

1) Traumatic brain injury and 2) Topic of the month: Sports neurology. 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 Drs. Erik Ensrud and Brian Edlow interviews Dr. Jordan Grafman about his paper on traumatic brain injury. In the next segment, Dr. Jennifer Fugate is reading our e-Pearl of the week about TCD in brain death. In the next part of the podcast Dr. Howard Goodkin interviews Dr. Jeff Kutcher about post-concussion syndrome. The LOTW for the last week of March will be about peripheral nerve injury. The participants had nothing to disclose except Drs. Grafman, Fugate and Goodkin.Dr. Grafman serves as Co-editor of Cortex and receives research support from the Intramural Research Program NIH/NINDS and the Henry M. Jackson Foundation.Dr. Fugate serves on the editorial team for the Neurology® Resident and Fellow Section. Dr. Goodkin serves on the scientific board for Tuberous Sclerosis Alliance and CURE; serves on the editorial board for Neurology and Surgical Neurology International; receives royalties from the publication of the book The choking game and other strangulation activities in children and adolescents; and is funded by NIH grants [R01 NS067439 PI and R01 NS48413 PI].