Gide, Dominic Barfield here, and this is the RVC Clinical Podcast. Thank you for listening and thank you for subscribing on your smartphone or generic fruit brace device.

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very much for that flow. So today we're joined back in the studio for the first time this year.

I got Brian actually on the whistles and fladers,

so at least it will make us sound pretty good.

And Dr. Tom Cardi is joining us,

one of our wonderful lecturers in neurology and neurosurgery here at the RVCs.

Thank you very much, Tom, for letting me crew by you back into the studio again.

Pleasure to be here.

Very good.

So, Tom, I thought we'd start off by asking

like a few things that you get commonly asked as one of our neurologists here at the RBC. But the first thing

is what is this sort of neurophobia that people sort of go on about about students and vets in practice

and maybe even doctors and medical practitioners having a issue with all things neurological.

Yep.

So I know we're going to talk about common topics that people give us a call for.

And I strongly believe that many of the reasons that they phone us are because of this underlying

neurophobia. Now, neurophobia is an official term. It's a medical term and it's essentially defined as a fear of the neuroscience or neurology.

It was defined in 1994, originally in medical students, but has now been characterised in

countries all over the globe and is described as a pandemic amongst medical students.

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