Hot Topic: Prodromal synucleinopathies - REM sleep behaviour disorder

[upbeat music] Hello, everyone, and welcome to a new episode of the MDS Podcast, the official podcast of the International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society.

My name is Eduardo de Pablo Fernández, a neurologist at the Centre for Preventive Neurology at Queen Mary University of London.

And we are gonna introduce the first episode of a new hot topic series dedicated to prodromal, uh, synucleinopathies.

In this first episode, we are gonna talk about REM sleep behavior disorder.

And for this, I have Laura Pérez Carbonell as a guest, who is a consultant in sleep medicine and neurology at the Sleep Disorders Centre at Guy's Hospital in London.

Thank you very much, Laura, for joining us today.

Thank you so much, Eduardo, for having me.

A real pleasure to be here.

So it's not very common that we have a sleep specialist in the MDS podcast.

I wanted to start the interview with you telling us a bit about yourself, how you train in sleep medicine, and if there is any, uh, more formal fellowships or ways to reach this training as this may be interesting to some of the listeners.