Podcast: MDS PODCAST: Defining Parkinson's disease

MDS Podcast Presidential Lecture Awardee: David Marsden Lecture Award | Congress 2026

Prof. Tiago Outeiro speaks with 2026 MDS Congress C. David Marsden Presidential Lecture Award winner Prof. Vincenzo Bonifati about his landmark genetic discoveries and the future of movement disorders research.

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MDS Podcast Junior Awardee: Prevalence of Parkinson’s in Kenya | Congress 2026

Sara Schaefer speaks with the MDS Congress 2026 Junior Award Winner Dr. Richard Morton about his prevalence study on Parkinson’s disease in Kalifi County, Kenya, a substudy of the Transforming Parkinson’s Care in Africa (TraPCAf) study.

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MDS Podcast Junior Awardee: Can cortical signals tell us what is happening in the deep brain? | Congress 2026

In this episode, we speak with Zixiao Yin, recipient of a Junior Award at the MDS Congress, about his work on reconstructing deep brain activity from cortical signals. Using more than 700 hours of simultaneous cortical and subcortical recordings across different movement disorders, brain targets, and clinical states, Yin and colleagues developed deep learning approaches…

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MDS Podcast Presidential Lecture Awardee: Stanley Fahn Award Lecture | Congress 2026

Dr. Sara Schaefer speaks with 2026 MDS Congress Stanley Fahn Award Lecture winner Dr. Beomseok Jeon about his career and the inspiration he drew from his time as a movement disorders fellow under Dr. Stanley Fahn.

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MDS Podcast Setting the TEMPO: What have we learned about D1/D5 dopamine stimulation in Parkinson’s disease?

Dr. Divyani Garg speaks with Dr. Hubert H. Fernandez about tavapadon, a once-daily selective dopamine D1/D5 receptor agonist, and what the TEMPO clinical development program tells us about its potential role in Parkinson’s disease (PD). They discuss the rationale for D1/D5 stimulation, findings from other TEMPO programs, the magnitude and clinical meaning of the motor…

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MDS Podcast History of Movement Disorders: Animal models for studying Parkinson’s disease

Prof. Jeffrey Kordower and Prof. Franziska Richter Assêncio join Prof. Tiago Outeiro to discuss the historical use of animal models in the field of Parkinson’s disease. Together they review ethical issues, the value of different types of models, and their relevance to the field.

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MDS Podcast Hot Topic: Prodromal Parkinson’s disease

In this new episode of the Hot Topic ‘Prodromal synucleinopathies’ Dr. Eva Schäffer joins Dr. Eduardo de Pablo Fernández to discuss recent advances, future challenges, and practical clinical advice in prodromal Parkinson’s disease.

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MDS Podcast What is it? A young girl with subacute jerky movements

In this episode, Dr. Kathryn Yang discusses a case of a young girl with subacute-onset jerky movements with an interesting finding on oculomotor examination, and explores the etiological diagnosis of this peculiar syndrome. Read the article.

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MDS Podcast Hot Topic: Prodromal synucleinopathies – REM sleep behaviour disorder

Sleep Specialist Dr. Laura Pérez-Carbonell joins Dr. Eduardo de Pablo Fernández to discuss a wide range of topics related to REM sleep behaviour disorder as a prodromal synucleinopathy.

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MDS Podcast ERNA: A newer neurophysiological biomarker to automate DBS programming

In this episode, Dr. Mitra Afshari speaks with Dr. Jen Nagao about her latest work highlighting the automation of subthalamic deep brain stimulation (DBS) with Evoked Resonant Neural Activity (ERNA) in Parkinson’s disease. They discuss the potential benefits of ERNA over beta power in the operating room and future opportunities to explore this newer neurophysiological…

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