Practical Neurology Podcast

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Neurology and detective writing: Andrew Lees Dec 22, 2013

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Listen to Andrew Lees, director of the Reta Lila Weston Institute for Neurological Studies at UCL and director of the Queen Square Brain Bank for Neurological Disorders, discuss his article on the intersection between neurology and crime writing.

This interview is part of a Practical Neurology package on neurology and detective writing. For more information, and the other interviews in the set, see bit.ly/19YiaEM

Solving the case, making the diagnosis: Neurology and detective writing Dec 20, 2013

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When searching for clues to reach a diagnosis, neurologists often empathise with the detective who is trying to solve a case, write Peter Kempster and Andrew Lees in Practical Neurology bit.ly/1dqReQq.

In this podcast Andrew Lees, director of the Queen Square Brain Bank, discusses with PN editor Phil Smith how neurologists draw upon detective skills (and how this is changing as the specialty changes), those who have turned these skills to crime fiction writing, and the use of narrative in clinical case histories.

The expert witnesses called upon are Oliver Sacks, best selling author and professor of neurology at NYU School of Medicine, Peter Gautier Smith, now retired from consulting at Queen Square and who wrote 31 detective novels, and Chris Goetz, who worked at Rush University Medical Centre with Harold Klawans, crime fiction writer and authority on Parkinson’s disease.

Listen to the full interviews here:

Andrew Lees bit.ly/1cPaoxM

Peter Gautier-Smith bit.ly/1d5HhKj

Harold Klawans bit.ly/19cXRGC

Oliver Sacks bit.ly/1hBsbgz

A taste of honey May 08, 2013

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Andrew Chancellor, consultant neurologist in Tauranga, New Zealand, gives the background to his reported case of honey neurotoxicity in the June issue of Practical Neurology.

Read Dr Chancellor's report here http://bit.ly/15EnIam