Hosted by Dr Thomas D. Riisfeldt · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 22 episodes
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Welcome to Riisfeldt Neurology Education, a not-for-profit, free open access project with a philosophical touch exploring all areas of clinical neurology! I’m your host, Dr Thomas D. Riisfeldt, an Australian neurologist, epileptologist and neurophysiologist/neuromuscular specialist, and also a physician, philosopher and bioethicist. This podcast is aimed at medical students, neurologists/physicians and their trainees, and any other medical, nursing or allied health professionals involved in the care of patients with neurological conditions. From cortex to curiosity... Keep calm and synapse on!
Dr Thomas D. Riisfeldt hosts Riisfeldt Neurology Education, a health show with 22 episodes published.
Welcome 2026! The first episode of the new year goes back to absolute fundamentals, discussing the foundations of diagnostic reasoning and how to generate a differential diagnosis in both medicine as a whole and in neuro
This episode continues our run of journal club episodes, this time looking at whether SGLT2 inhibitors used for type 2 diabetes mellitus have any associated reduction in dementia (such as Alzheimer’s disease and vascular
This instalment brings another journal club episode, this time in the Parkinson’s disease and movement disorders series, focussing on the diagnostic accuracy of dopamine uptake scans (DAT SPECT; DaTscan) for Parkinson’s
We’re thrilled to present our first journal club episode, focusing on tenecteplase for ischaemic stroke in the 4.5-24 hour time window in patients with large vessel occlusions (LVOs) in whom mechanical thrombectomy is no
Hope you’re ready for an important one! In this next instalment in the stroke & cerebrovascular diseases series we discuss how to effectively run a stroke call/code stroke, focussing on establishing the time last seen we
In this next episode in the movement disorders and Parkinson’s disease series, we begin with a brief overview of the mechanisms of action of the medications used to treat Parkinson’s disease, before focusing on five comm
We’re thrilled to announce the first episode in our movement disorders & Parkinson’s disease series (also continuing our clinical method series), beginning with a discussion of how to perform an extrapyramidal examinatio
The second episode in the neuro-otology and vertigo series takes a step back to review the clinical approach to the patient presenting with the notoriously misinterpreted symptom of ‘dizziness’, before reviewing the best
We’ve got another surprise installed for you today… the first episode in the neuro-otology and vertigo series! (Again as an overlap with our ongoing clinical method series). This episode focuses on the HiNTs+ examination
This is the first episode in the neurological procedures series… drum roll please… you guessed it, it’s the lumbar puncture (LP)! This episode describes at length the many indications for lumbar punctures (a super helpfu
Correction: 19:30 Visual threat testing is for testing visual fields when the patient isn't properly responding to your initial standard field testing (not for when there is already an established field deficit in a coop
This episode further continues our clinical method series by turning to the lower limb examination, focussing on tips and tricks to optimise your examination technique assessing inspection, tone, power, reflexes, sensati
This episode continues our clinical method series by turning to the upper limb examination, focussing on tips and tricks to optimise your examination technique assessing inspection, tone, power, reflexes, sensation and c
This episode is part 2 of the session taking a deep dive into the specific examination techniques for each cranial nerve, focussing on pearls and pitfalls for optimal testing, along with focussing on linking the examinat
This episode begins with a description of the examinable components of each cranial nerve, and how they are best grouped together for an efficient and logical examination, before taking a deep dive into the specific exam
This episode discusses how to semiologically distinguish nocturnal hypermotor (hyperkinetic) seizures typical of sleep-related hypermotor epilepsy (SHE, formerly nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy, NFLE) from the two main d
This short (and less serious!) episode explains the many hidden details in our intricate logo, with a few perhaps unexpected learning points discussed along the way, including a brief discussion of different ways of acqu
This episode discusses how to distinguish a bilateral tonic-clonic seizure (of generalised, focal or unknown onset) from a convulsive syncope and from a psychogenic non-epileptiform spell/seizure (PNES, as part of functi
This episode first explores the clinical definition of epilepsy, why diagnosing epilepsy is important, and the fundamental steps required to make an accurate diagnosis. It then discusses the relationship between seizure
This episode explores the ways in which seizures can be pathophysiologically, clinically and electrographically defined, and considers the various possible clinical manifestations of seizures, before scrutinising the cur
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