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  • Changing of the Guard: welcoming incoming and celebrating outgoing editorial team members of the RFS
    Roy E. Strowd III, MD, Neurology Resident & Fellow Section Deputy Editor

    Each year the Neurology RFS accepts applications from talented adult and child neurology trainees to join the editorial team for the RFS. As in past years, the caliber of applicant was phenomenal this year and we welcome in a fantastic group of new editorial team members:

    Shashank Agarwal, MD, New York University Langone Health

    Mehdi Bouslama, MD, Emory University School of Medicine

    Katherine Fu, MD, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)

    Jodie Roberts, MD, MSc, University of Calgary

    Jeffrey Russ, MD, PhD, University of California San Francisco

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    October, 4 2019
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    Visual snow  

    Visual snow is the perception of persistent flickering dots throughout the visual field, which resembles the static noise of an untuned television.1 It is the defining feature of the visual snow syndrome (VSS), an under-recognized condition which includes palinopsia, photophobia, photopsias, entoptic phenomena, nyctalopia, and tinnitus.2 This condition, which shares similarities with but is distinct from chronic migraine aura,2 is thought to arise from widespread disturbance of sensory processing due to subcortical network malfunction and cortical hyperexcitation.1 Recent diagnostic criteria for VSS have been described.2 There is a paucity of clinical trials of therapy for visual snow. Current options that have been used with varying success include modification of subjective visual dysfunction with color-filtered glasses, migraine preventatives, anti-epileptics, and SSRIs.2,3 Most importantly, patients should be reassured of the structural integrity of the eye and visual pathways. 

    References 

    1. White OB, Clough M, McKendrick AM, Fielding J. Visual Snow: Visual Misperception. J Neuroophthalmol 2018;38:514–521. 
    2. Schankin CJ, Maniyar FH, Digre KB, Goadsby PJ. 'Visual snow' - a disorder distinct from persistent migraine aura. Brain 2014;137:1419–1428. 
    3. Ghannam B, Pelak VS. Visual Snow: a Potential Cortical Hyperexcitability Syndrome. Curr Treat Options Neurol 2017;19:9. 

    Benson Chen, MBChB, and Leanne Stunkel, MD—Neuro-Ophthalmology Fellows, Department of Ophthalmology, Emory School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA. 

    Dr. Chen and Dr. Stunkel do not have any disclosures. 

     

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  • New R&F Editorial Team Members

    The Neurology® Resident & Fellow Section Welcomes Five New Members to the Editorial Team!

    Shahank Agarwal, MD, New York University Langone Health, Brooklyn, NY

    Medi Bouslama, MD, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA

    Katherine Fu, MD, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA

    Jodie Roberts, MD, MSc, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Jeffrey Russ, MD, PhD, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

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