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 Inflammation is an early feature of Parkinson’s disease

Dr. Michele Matarazzo interviews Dr. Talene Yacoubian on an article recently published on the Movement disorders journal that reveals increased inflammatory markers in recently diagnosed patients with Parkinson’s disease...

MDS Podcast Diagnosis of Late-Onset Wilson’s Disease

Dr. Christelle Nilles talks with Dr. Hugo Morales Briceno about the clinical presentations of Wilson’s disease patients with onset after 40 years and the challenges of diagnosing patients with...

MDS Podcast Deep brain stimulation in Parkinson’s disease with cognitive impairment: real-world evidence

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has long been considered a risky procedure for people with Parkinson’s disease and cognitive impairment. In this interview, Dr. Miocinovic presents real-world data, showing that...

MDS Podcast History of Movement Disorders: The Finding of Alpha-Synuclein and Lewy Bodies

In this History of Movement Disorders Special Episode, Prof. Tiago Outeiro interviews Prof. Maria Grazia Spillantini about integral work involved in discovering the role alpha-synuclein plays in the development...

MDS Podcast Hot topic: The gut microbiome in Parkinson’s

In this special Hot Topics episode, Dr. Filip Scheperjans discusses what we know and what we don’t yet know about the gut microbiome in Parkinson’s disease, theories of influencing...

MDS Podcast Pathological Validation of 2022 MSA Criteria

Sara Schaefer discusses with Dr. Eduardo de Pablo-Fernandez his recent paper in Movement Disorders providing retrospective pathological validation of the 2022 MDS MSA Criteria using specimens from the Queens...

MDS Podcast Walking through the falls: understanding gait with wearable sensors in Parkinson’s disease

In this paper, Dr. Vrustangkumar Shah and colleagues evaluated gait in patients with Parkinson’s disease in the lab and in real life, with and without levodopa through wearable sensors....

MDS Podcast Targeting alpha synuclein in early Parkinson’s disease. Clinical trials and future perspectives

Two clinical trials with antibodies targeting alpha synuclein in early Parkinson’s disease have been published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Anthony Lang and Gennaro Pagano, the first...