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 Presidential Lecture Awardee – The importance of alpha-synuclein research | Congress 2024

Dr. Virginia Lee, the 2024 C. David Marsden Presidential Lecture Award Winner, recounts her career and what events lead her to study neurodegenerative disease. She also shares her insight...

MDS Podcast Hot Topic: Pesticides and Parkinson’s Disease 2

For this Hot Topic episode, Prof. Tiago Outeiro talks with Dr. Briana de Miranda about the basic science behind the relationship between pesticides and Parkinson’s disease. Together they discuss...

MDS Podcast Hot Topic: Pesticides and Parkinson’s Disease 1

Prof. Daniela Berg joins Prof. Tiago Outeiro in this first Hot Topic episode focusing on pesticides and Parkinson’s disease (PD). Together they discuss the rise of PD, the impact...

MDS Podcast Essential tremor and dystonia: the TITAN study

Dr. Sara Schaefer interviews Dr. Roberto Erro on the phenotypic characteristics of essential tremor, essential tremor with soft dystonic signs, and tremor combined with dystonia through analysis of The...

MDS Podcast Neurovascular health and Lewy body disorders, where is the connection?

Studies have shown a close interplay between the cerebrovascular system and neurodegeneration. But what is the current evidence, and how can it help us better understand the pathophysiology of...

MDS Podcast Disentangling the Cognitive Effects of Acute Levodopa in Parkinson’s Disease

In this episode, Dr. Joseph Seemiller and Dr. Kelly Mills discuss the changes in cognitive performance in the OFF and ON states during an acute levodopa challenge in a...

MDS Podcast Exploring postural control in functional motor disorders using virtual reality

In this episode, Drs. Gandolfi and Tinazzi discuss how virtual reality can be used as a therapeutic tool to modulate attention in patients with functional motor disorder, while measuring...

MDS Podcast Is levodopa disease modifying? Long-term LEAP study follow-up

Prof. Rob de Bie joins Dr. Sara Schaefer to discuss the 5-year follow up extension to the Levodopa in Early Parkinson’s disease (LEAP) study, including the results and indications...