Podcast: MDS PODCAST: Defining Parkinson's disease

MDS Podcast Practicing medicine in time of pandemic and future of Movement Disorders medical practice

Dr. Michele Matarazzo interviews Prof. Roy Alcalay on the effects that the COVID-19 pandemic is having on the clinical activity and how it is changing the way we see patients. Will telemedicine be an integrating part of our clinical practice?

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MDS Podcast How to manage Parkinson’s disease and related disorders, and is there a link between COVID and PD?

Dr. Michele Matarazzo interviews Prof. Angelo Antonini on the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders patients and how to manage them. And also, what is the evidence of a link between COVID-19 and Parkinson’s disease? Read the article

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MDS Podcast Antibiotics and Parkinson’s disease

In this issue Dr. Filip Sheperjans shares the results of the article published in the March 2020 issue of the Movement Disorders journal on the effect of antibiotic exposure on the risk of developing Parkinson’s disease. Read the article

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MDS Podcast Integrated therapy for functional movement disorders

Dr. Sara Schaefer discusses with Dr. Sarah Lidstone her recent paper in Movement Disorders Clinical Practice about a novel, multidisciplinary therapeutic intervention for functional movement disorders patients. Read the article

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MDS Podcast Fine tuning DBS in Parkinson’s disease. How much can we improve?

Dr. Viswas Dayal discusses with Dr. Michele Matarazzo how adjusting the pulse width of deep brain stimulation could impact Parkinson’s disease, highlighting the results of the paper he recently published in the Movement Disorders journal. Read the article

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MDS Podcast White matter changes in Huntington’s disease

Dr. Sara Schaefer discusses with Dr. Sarah Gregory her recent study on neuroimaging changes and fluid biomarkers in Huntington’s disease, and how those may be used to better characterize the biological basis for neurodegeneration in this disease Read the article

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MDS Podcast Parkinsonian syndromes and Parkinson’s subtypes: Will a single neuroimaging modality ever be enough?

Dr. Sara Schaefer speaks with Dr. Nicola Pavese about the imaging modalities currently in use and emerging to differentiate parkinsonian syndromes and Parkinson’s subtypes, and how imaging helps us to understand, study, and treat these conditions. Read the article

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MDS Podcast Atypical Parkinsonisms | Congress 2019

As part of the MDS Congress 2019 Special Issue, Dr. Michele Matarazzo interviews Dr. Gesine Respondek about atypical parkinsonisms, focusing on the MDS activities to advance in the knowledge and management of these diseases and facilitate clinical trials.

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MDS Podcast Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body disorders | Congress 2019

As part of the MDS Congress 2019 Special Issue, Dr. Matarazzo interviews Dr. K. Ray Chaudhuri about news in Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementia, including new treatments, scales and other advances in early and late-stage PD. Read the article

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MDS Podcast Tic disorders and Tourette syndrome | Congress 2019

As part of the MDS Congress 2019 Special Issue, Dr. Michele Matarazzo interviews Dr. Christos Ganos about the newly created MDS Tic Disorders and Tourette Syndrome Study Group, and the main news breakthroughs in the field, that have been discussed during the MDS Congress.

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