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Purpose: Audio-Digest Foundation CME/CE activities are designed to provide its learners – physicians and other healthcare professionals – with continuing education that will help identify clinical problems in their practice settings, provide content to help to solve those problems, and increase their application of knowledge to practice.

Audio-Digest Neurology is specifically designed to provide the participant with knowledge-based competencies identified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN) in its Neurology core competencies. These competencies include, but are not limited to:

Basic neuroscience that is critical to the practice of neurology

Pathophysiology and treatment of major psychiatric and neurologic disorders and familiarity with the scientific basis of neurology

Neurologic disorders and diseases across the lifespan

Psychiatric disorders and diseases across the lifespan

Patient evaluation and treatment selection

Employment of principles of quality improvement in practice

The goal of this program is to improve the management and prevention of medication overuse headache (MOH). After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1: Identify psychiatric comorbidities in patients with MOH.

2: Apply cognitive behavioral therapy and other behavioral interventions for treatment of MOH.

3: Classify MOH and explain its physiologic basis.

4: Describe the structural and functional changes that occur in the brain as the result of frequent migraine attacks and MOH.

5: Discuss the role of long-term opioid use in the progression to chronic daily headache and opioid-induced hyperalgesia.