This episode of Lessons from the Lab should make you laugh, think, and maybe cry as Drs. Rubin and Quan discuss various approaches to the evaluation of patients with suspected motor neuron disease.

1/5/2024 - Chilvana Patel, Associate Professor and Neurology Residency Program Director at University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston, Texas, interviewing  Dr. Bhai who is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology at UT Southwestern Medical Center and the Director of the Neuromuscular Center in the Institute of Exercise and Environmental Medicine at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas and Dr. Vissing who is a professor in Department of Neurology at university of Copenhagen, Denmark and Director of Copenhagen Neuromuscular Center at the National Hospital about their recently published articles in Muscle and Nerve in April 2023 on Diagnosis and management of metabolic myopathies.  34 min.

Join us in this episode as Devon Rubin, MD, challenges Professor Erik Stalberg with an unknown case and discusses various EMG approaches to a patient with suspected neuromuscular junction disease. Watch Professor Stalberg grade Dr. Rubin’s single fiber pairs and hearing about single fiber EMG on dogs will surely make you smile!

In Episode 6 of Lessons From the Lab, we have a fun, educational discussion with Dr. Robert Irwin, current president of AANEM, about an interesting patient with scapular winging. Learn about clinical, electrodiagnostic, and neuromuscular ultrasound assessment of scapular winging, and approaches to managing these patients.

Devon Rubin, MD, is joined by John Kincaid, MD, to discuss which is the most important tool in the neurologists bag, the largest wad of cotton, and interesting findings in a patient with foot numbness.

12/16/2021- Dr. Katarzyna Ibanez interviews Dr. Timothy Dillingham on evaluation of persons with suspected lumbosacral and cervical radiculopathy.   39 minutes