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 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...

MDS Podcast Task-specific brain oscillatory activity in laryngeal dystonia

Laryngeal dystonia (LD) is a rare disorder affecting the vocal cords. Dr. Sarah Camargos sits down with Prof. Kristina Simonyan while she breaks down the methodology and findings of...

MDS Podcast MDJ Review Article of the Year Award: How does DBS change the course of Parkinson’s?

Dr. Poewe and Dr. Mahlknecht discuss the details of their Review Article of the Year on what we know about how DBS in Parkinson’s disease alters symptoms, disability, survival,...

MDS Podcast MDCP Review Article of the Year: Alpha-Synuclein Seed Amplification Assays in CSF

Dr. Sara Schaefer speaks with Dr. Beatrice Heim, author of the MDCP Review Article of the Year 2023, about alpha-synuclein seed amplification assays of the CSF and their use...

MDS Podcast The Role of Levodopa Challenge in Predicting the Outcome of STN DBS

Dr. Eduardo Fernandez interviews Professor Günther Deuschl and Dr. Robin Wolke on their recent MDCP article on the challenges levodopa poses when predicting the outcome of subthalamic deep brain...