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Be sure to check out the guidelines published in neurology.

I am delighted to be joined today by fellow Ohioan, Bruce Cohen, a child neurologist at Akron Children's Hospital and an expert in the care of children and adults with mitochondrial disorders.

Bruce is the lead author of a paper published in June twenty twenty-six called "Education Research: The Future of Child Neurology Residency Training, The Perspective of a Child Neurology Society Task Force." Child neurology occupies this unique space at the intersection between pediatrics and adult neurology and pediatric neurology.

And really, there are few topics in our field that generate as much discussion amongst child neurologists as, like, how we should train the next generation.

You get ten child neurologists in the room, maybe there's fifteen different opinions [chuckles] on how we should do this.

It's a great field.

Thank you so much, Bruce.

I've been speaking with Bruce Cohen from Akron Children's Hospital and lead author on a paper published in June twenty-twenty-six in Neurology Education titled Education Research: The Future of Child Neurology Residency Training, The Perspectives of a Child Neurology Society Task Force.

Thank you, Bruce, so much for your time and your insights into this important topic.

And one more, coffee drinking has also been linked to a lower risk of Parkinson's disease.

A 2024 study published in Neurology found that people with the highest coffee intake had a 37% lower risk of developing Parkinson's disease compared with non-coffee drinkers.

Higher blood levels of caffeine and its metabolites measured years before diagnosis were also associated with lower Parkinson's risk.

Now, for all its health benefits, coffee does come with some precautions to keep in mind.

constitutionally adequate due process.

His ruling came early this morning after a hearing yesterday in which he said two precedents made clear that journalists are entitled to due process before their White House access can be revoked.

In issuing a 14-day restraining order, the judge said the government had offered little to back up their asserted national security interests for instituting the ban.

Trump announced the ban in a social media post Friday, citing what he described as unfair coverage.

And now the three big things you need to know.

Number one,

A federal judge has ordered President Trump to restore White House access for journalists from CNN, MSNOW and Politico, saying his ban on the three media outlets is likely unconstitutional.

The judge blocked officials from enforcing the ban of the outlets for 14 days.

And doctors believe one reason for that has to do with the sudden drop in estrogen after menopause, which can affect the brain.

Now a new study published in Neurology seems to support the theory.

Researchers analyzed the health records of more than 5,000 older women with hysterectomies who had died and had an autopsy of their brains.

Those who had received estrogen-only hormone therapy at menopause had 35% lower odds of having the hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease, including amyloid plaques in their brains, compared with women who had not received estrogen.

Hello, my name is Kate Neville, and I'm a neuro-oncologist at Indiana University.

Today, I'm looking forward to talking to Clara Baselga and Eyal Azer about their study and article titled Primary Motor Cortex Involvement and Its Association with Seizure Risk in Patients with Brain Metastases, published in the Neurology Journal.

Clara and Eyal, welcome to the podcast.

Thank you so much, Kate.

These nutrients may help slow cognitive decline by preventing damage to brain cells and enhancing their function.

A study published in Neurology found that people who ate one to two servings of green leafy vegetables per day had the cognitive ability of a person 11 years younger than those who consumed none.

There you have it.

Now you know five foods that can improve brain performance.

And the British Medical Journal did a wonderful review on this.

And, uh, in fact, Neurology Journal recently, uh, uh, suggests that on meta-analyses, these drugs are actually accelerating brain shrinkage, not reducing it.

But the point is, is it really ethical, uh, to go down this route and to encourage old people to join trials, which is exactly what's happening right now? So the...

We then move on to tangles, p-tau tangles, neurofibrillary tangles.