MDS PODCAST: Defining Parkinson’s disease

Stay up to date on novel, clinically-relevant research findings in Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders.

Stay up to date on novel, clinically-relevant research findings in Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders.


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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

MDS Podcast DaxibotulinumtoxinA for cervical dystonia

Dr. Todd Gross and Dr. Laxman Bahroo discuss with Dr. Sara Schaefer the real-world use of daxibotulinumtoxinA in patients with cervical dystonia following initial clinical trials and FDA approval....