Neurology: Highlights from A Comprehensive Review of Neurology by Barrow Neurological Institute (Audio-Digest Foundation Neurology Continuing Medical Education (CME). Book 2)

Purpose: Audio-Digest Foundation CME/CE activities are designed to provide its learners – physicians and other healthcare professionals – with continuing education that will help identify clinical problems in their practice settings, provide content to help to solve those problems, and increase their application of knowledge to practice.

Audio-Digest Neurology is specifically designed to provide the participant with knowledge-based competencies identified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN) in its Neurology core competencies. These competencies include, but are not limited to:

Basic neuroscience that is critical to the practice of neurology
Pathophysiology and treatment of major psychiatric and neurologic disorders and familiarity with the scientific basis of neurology
Neurologic disorders and diseases across the lifespan
Psychiatric disorders and diseases across the lifespan
Patient evaluation and treatment selection
Employment of principles of quality improvement in practice

The goal of this program is to improve the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy and neurologic tumors. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1: Differentiate partial-onset from generalized seizures.

2: Recognize the important epilepsy syndromes, generalized and localization-related genetic epilepsies, and acquired localization-related seizures.

3: Select the appropriate treatment for the different types of epilepsy.

4: Diagnose the various types of primary brain tumors in children and adults and summarize the effects of treatment on survival.

5: Identify and manage metastatic tumors in the brain, meninges, and spinal cord.