Journal Club Schedule 2008-2009

Friday 1-2 pm

July 4th	Holiday
July 11th	Professor's Rounds
July 18th	Silverstein/Libman
July 25th	Professor's Rounds
August 1st	Lubin/Einberg
August 8th	Professor's Rounds
August 15th	Terranova/Hwang
August 22nd	Professor's Rounds
August 29th	Grinman/Libman
September 5th	Professor's Rounds
September 12th	Isakov/Gordon
September 19th	Professor's Rounds
September 26th	Hon/Gianakakos
October 3rd	Professor's Rounds
October 10th	Professor's Rounds
October 17th	Kaur/Patil
October 24th	Fekete/Katz
October 31st	Professor's Rounds
November 7th	Wachsman/Nelson
November 14th	Professor's Rounds
November 21st	Feuer/Kanner
November 28th	Thanksgiving Holiday
December 5th	Professor's Rounds
December 12th	Nejjar/Niethammer
December 19th	Professor's Rounds
December 26th	Frid/Pourfar
January 2nd	Professor's Rounds
January 9th	Professor’s Rounds
January 16th	Professor's Rounds
January 23rd	Shor/Schwartz
January 30th	Professor's Rounds
February 6th	Ardeljan/Feigin
February 13th	Professor's Rounds
February 20th	Palangio/Jain
February 27th	In Service Exam
March 6th	Fekete/Duarte
March 13th	Professor's Rounds
March 20th	Jaffe/Gianakakos
March 27th	Professor's Rounds
April 3rd	Oliveira/Rosen
April 10th	Professor's Rounds
April 17th	Sedarous/Ettinger
April 24th	Professor's Rounds
May 1st	Salamon/Niethammer
May 8th	Professor’s Rounds
May 15th	Professor's Rounds
May 22nd	Hon/Hwang
May 29th	Sedarous/Murthy
June 5th	Professor's Rounds
June 12th	Jaffe/Duarte
June 19th	Professor's Rounds
June 26th	Silverstein/Einberg

Articles/topics:

July 18^th, 2008 NINDS tPA trial

August 1^st, 2008 Lifetime occupation, education, smoking, and risk of ALS

August 15^th, 2008 A randomized, controlled trial of surgery for temporal-lobe epilepsy

August 28^th, 2008 Primary CNS Vasculitis

September 19^th, 2008 Effects of Sleep Deprivation

September 26^th, Kwan Brodie Early Identification of Refractory Epilepsy

October 3^rd, 2008 Ethics Patient Autonomy.

October 17^th, 2009 Hacke, J. Thrombolysis with Alteplase 3 to 4.5 Hours after Acute Ischemic Stroke, NEJM, Volume 359:1317-1329, September 25, 2008

October 10^th, 2008 Professor's Rounds: Physician assisted dying and persistent vegetative state

October 24^th, 2008 Aspirin and extended-release dipyridamole versus clopidogrel for recurrent stroke. Sacco, RL, et al., N Engl J Med.

November 21^st, 2008 Neurology. 2008 Oct 21;71(17):1300-1 : Symptomatic intracerebral hemorrhage and recanalization after IV rt-PA: A multicenter study

January 9^th, 2009 Professor’s Rounds: Demyelinating Disease Case

January 16^th, 2009 Professor’s Rounds. Neuromuscular/AIDP

January 23^rd, 2009 Levodopa and the Progression of Parkinson’s Disease, N Engl J Med 2004; 31:2498-508

January 30^th, 2009 Professor’s Rounds. Dr. Demopoulos Transverse Myelitis Case

February 6^th, 2009 JAMA 2002 v 287 p1653 Dopamine transporter brain imaging to assess the effects of pramipexole vs levodopa on pd progression.

February 20^th, 2009 Epilepsy in patients with brain tumours: epidemiology, mechanisms, and management. Melanie S M van Breemen, Erik B Wilms, Charles J Vecht; Lancet Neurol 2007; 6: 42130.

February 27^th, 2009 In Service Examination.

March 6^th, 2009 NEUROLOGY 2009;72:S12-S20 Diagnosis and the premotor phase of Parkinson disease Eduardo Tolosa, MD, Carles Gaig, MD, Joan Santamaría, MD and Yaroslau Compta, MD.

April 3^rd, Excessive acute migraine medication use and migraine progression. Bigal ME, Lipton RB. Neurology. 2008 Nov 25;71(22):1821-8 .

April 17^th, Ettinger AB et al.,Prevalence and cost of nonadherence to antiepileptic drugs in elderly patients. Epilepsy Behav (2008), doi:10.1016 / j. yebeh.2008.10.021 .

May 29^th,"Acute motor response following a single IVIG treatment course in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy" from the Muscle & Nerve Journal Volume 39, No. 4, April 2009.