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• Using Diaries, Calendars and Technology to Improve Headache Care

  From optimizing the benefits of paper calendars to embracing new electronic technologies, neurologists can gather crucial data to improve patient care.

  By Brian Loftus, MD

Features

• Sleep Disorders: Special Challenges in Female Patients

  Some sleep problems occur with great frequency in women, while others present with greater intensity. Here’s what you need to know.

  By Antonio Culebras, MD

• Practice Management: New Solutions for Old Problems

  Big changes to Medicare are coming. Here’s a look at how you and your practice can prepare for success in the new decade.

  By Zac Haughn, Senior Associate Editor

Departments

• Editor’s Message

• In The News: The Influence of Geography on Incidence of Stroke in the US

• Letter to the Editor: At Face Value: Obama and Neurology

• Expert Opinion: Emerging Strategies for Rehabilitation of the Stroke Patient

  In the past few decades, new understanding about the plasticity of nervous system organization coupled with innovative techniques for physical therapy have provided new options for post-stroke rehabilitation.

  By John W Norbury MD, Brian P McDonald DO, John M Barbis MA, PT, Guy W Fried MD, Steven Mandel MD

• Epilepsy Essentials: Rufinamide in the Treatment of Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome

  A new AED offers promise for management of LGS, a devastating and often refractory form of epilepsy.

  By Steven Karceski, MD