Introduction, classification & epidemiology
Released 24 Sep 2025
Introduction to video channel & audio podcast
Welcome to the inaugural episode of Riisfeldt Neurology Education (@rneurologyeducation), a not-for-profit, free open access and easily accessible project 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 channel 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. Listen to this first episode if you'd like to find out about the project's rationale and aims, methods, and my own professional backstory. From cortex to curiosity... Keep calm and synapse on!
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1EC9zfQEq0Uhl4HnoUsumO?si=Jm8kvQM4QuSUE98MX8-wXQ
Released 30 Sep 2025
Explaining our logo!
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 acquiring an electroencephalogram (EEG) recording, the four radiological locations for typical multiple sclerosis (MS) lesions, some of the clinical symptoms and signs of idiopathic Parkinson’s disease (iPD), one of the advanced therapy treatment options for migraine, the surface anatomy for performing routine motor nerve conduction studies (NCS) on the median nerve at the wrist in the context of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), the most common semicircular canal implicated in benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV), the anatomical distribution of atrophy in Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and a common vascular site for dominant hemisphere anterior circulation acute ischaemic strokes. The episode also briefly discusses the motor and sensory examination as the groundwork of clinical neurology, the different awareness ribbons and their associated colours for the eight chosen categories of neurological diseases included in our logo, and even two species of flowers associated with two common neurological diseases.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1zfWRUVpUWVehfubfiC2rl?si=K-r3h2z0TrCefDI2OXM9RA
Introduction, classification & epidemiology
Anatomy & physiology
Medical ethics & law
Neuromuscular
Motor neuronopathies
Radiculopathies & plexopathies
Neuropathies
Neuromuscular junction (NMJ) disorders
Myopathies
Neuroimmunology & multiple sclerosis (MS)
Headache & migraine
Cognitive disorders & dementias
Cerebellar ataxias
Myelopathies
Focal cranial nerve palsies
Neuro-ophthalmology
Disorders of consciousness & intensive care neurology
Sleep disorders
Pain & neuropalliative care
Neuropsychiatry & functional neurological disorder (FND)
Other neurological infections
Other neuro-oncology
Other inborn errors of metabolism & mitochondrial disorders
Other toxic, environmental, physical & acquired metabolic insults
Case presentations
Neuroradiology
Electroencephalography (EEG)
Nerve conduction studies (NCS) / electromyography (EMG)
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