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 Mortality in Parkinson’s disease: findings from a nationwide study from Finland

Dr. Jussi Sipilä joins Dr. Eduardo de Pablo-Fernandez to discuss the interesting findings of the article on mortality rate in Parkinson’s disease using nationwide data from multiple health registries...

MDS Podcast Local fields potentials can help DBS programming in Parkinson’s disease in clinical practice

Dr. Michele Matarazzo interviews Prof. Andrea Kühn on her recently published article showing the potential of local fields potentials to help the programming of deep brain stimulation in patients...

MDS Podcast Deep brain stimulation for GBA-related Parkinson’s disease: is it a reasonable option?

In this special issue Dr. Avenali and Prof. Valente share the results on a large cohort study investigating the results and risks of deep brain stimulation in people with...

MDS Podcast Family history and genetic Alzheimer’s risk and ties to Parkinson’s disease

Dr. Sara Schaefer discusses with Prof. Xiang Gao and Xinming Xu on their study utilizing the UK biobank to explore the risk of Parkinson’s disease as it relates to...

MDS Podcast Unravelling the progression of tremor in Parkinson’s disease

Dr. Pasquini discusses the findings of his collaborative study that has helped to understand the progression of rest postural and kinetic tremor in Parkinson’s disease. Read the article

MDS Podcast Using EEG to Identify Parkinson’s Subtypes

Dr. Sara Schaefer discusses with Prof. Marc Vérin and Prof. Mahmoud Hassan their recent paper in Movement Disorders Journal on the use of Resting-State High-Density EEG to neurophysiologically stratify...

MDS Podcast Hot Topic: Tissue-based biomarkers in Parkinson’s disease

For this Hot Topics episode, Dr. Eduardo Fernandez sits down with Dr. Thomas Beach to discuss the advances and challenges ahead in tissue biomarkers for Parkinson’s disease, including colon,...

MDS Podcast Expanded and Independent Spanish Validation of the MDS Non-Motor Rating Scale

Dr. Esther Cubo joins Dr. Sarah Lidstone and the MDS Podcast to discuss her recent work on the Spanish validation of the MDS Non-Motor Rating Scale. Together to go...

MDS Podcast Hot topic: GP2 and underrepresented populations

The Global Parkinson’s Genetics Program (GP2) is a project designed to understand the architecture of Parkinson’s disease (PD). Dr. Sarah Camargos sits down with Dr. Andrew Singleton to discuss...