TY - JOUR T1 - Highlights from this issue JF - Practical Neurology JO - Pract Neurol SP - 407 LP - 407 DO - 10.1136/practneurol-2015-001318 VL - 15 IS - 6 AU - Phil Smith AU - Geraint N Fuller Y1 - 2015/12/01 UR - http://pn.bmj.com/content/15/6/407.abstract N2 - What are the most important skills for a neurologist? The fact that neurologists often discuss this kind of question amongst themselves, over a drink at meetings—and not just at meetings to develop training—suggests reflection and self-criticism are probably key skills. What other suggestions are put forward? There is often a lot of support for the seemingly simple skill of information gathering (taking the history). This no doubt reflects the large number of neurological diagnoses that entirely or predominantly depend upon the history—primary headache disorders being perhaps the most common and pure example. The point of dissecting the history of headaches is to make a diagnosis, most importantly to guide how best to use the wide range of available treatments. Alex Sinclair and colleagues (see … ER -