Dr. Sarah Camargos interviews Dr. Thiago Leal and Dr. Ignacio Mata about the need of genetic studies on underrepresented populations and the technical challenges they faced when alayzing admixture ancestries and X chromosome. Read the article
Read MoreIn this special issue celebrating the Movement Disorders journal Research Article of the Year 2023, Sara Schaefer discusses with Dr. Mario Zappia the effects of the short vs long duration responses to levodopa on cortical excitability and neuroplasticity in response to motor learning tasks in early Parkinson’s disease patients. Read the article »
Read MoreIn this special issue celebrating the Movement Disorders Clinical Practice journal Research Article of the Year 2023, Sara Schaefer discusses tic phenomenology in primary tic disorders vs. functional tic-like disorders with Dr. Tamara Pringsheim. Read the article »
Read MoreDr. Wszolek shares with Dr. Schaefer his extensive knowledge about the clinical, genetic, and pathological findings in Perry disease, a rare and likely underdiagnosed parkinsonian condition. Read the article.
Read MoreIn this episode, Dr. Pierre-Emmanuel Sugier discusses the epidemiological associations between PD and cancers. While investigating several European GWAS databases, his group raised the conundrum whether cancer and Parkinson’s disease share common risk factors. Read the article.
Read MoreIn this episode, we interviewed Prof. Jian Feng about his most recent paper covering the role of parkin mutations in human A9 dopaminergic neurons and role they play in locomotor activities of early-onset PD. Journal CME is available until July 20, 2024 Read the article.
Read MoreIn this episode, Michele Matarazzo highlights the relevance of our society for the field and its members, with special guest Njideka Okubadejo.
Read MoreIn this episode Dr. Tiago Outeiro talks with Dr. Andrew Siderowf about the exciting new results in his most recent publication on alpha-synuclein seed amplification assay. Read the article.
Read MoreDr. Michele Matarazzo interviews Dr. Talene Yacoubian on an article recently published on the Movement disorders journal that reveals increased inflammatory markers in recently diagnosed patients with Parkinson’s disease without medication, suggesting the important role of inflammation from the early stages of the disease. Furthermore, inflammatory biomarkers are related to cognition. Journal CME is available…
Read MoreDr. Christelle Nilles talks with Dr. Hugo Morales Briceno about the clinical presentations of Wilson’s disease patients with onset after 40 years and the challenges of diagnosing patients with atypical neurological manifestations. Read the article.
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