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: A career observing the brain in action | Congress 2025

Dr. Jon Stoessl looks back on his distinguished career in neuroimaging, highlighting the discoveries that have advanced our understanding of Parkinson’s disease and related conditions. In this conversation, he...

MDS Podcast Presidential Lecture Awardee: Holistic conceptualization of patients with chronic illness | Congress 2025

Prof. Mark Edwards, the awardee for the 2025 Stanley Fahn Lecture Award, discusses his work and interest in the neurology-psychiatry continuum as it relates to the care of patients...

MDS Podcast Decoding epilepsy dyskinesia syndrome: Clinical clues and genotypic spectrum

In this episode, we dive into the world of epilepsy dyskinesia syndrome (EDS) with our guest, Dr. Darius Ebrahimi-Fakhari. Listen as he unpacks the findings from one of the...

MDS Podcast Hot Topic: Normal pressure hydrocephalus – Assessments for intervention, outcomes, and future directions

In the third and final episode of the normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) Hot Topic series, Dr. Sara Schaefer speaks with Dr. Joachim Krauss about the assessment of patients with...

MDS Podcast Hot Topic: Normal pressure hydrocephalus – Pathophysiology and controversies

In this second episode of the Hot Topic series on normal pressure hydrocephalus, Dr. Sara Schaefer discusses with Dr. Alfonso Fasano the pathophysiological theories behind NPH, co-pathology in this...

MDS Podcast Hot Topic: Normal pressure hydrocephalus – Clinical aspects and differential diagnosis

In this first episode of the Hot Topic series on normal pressure hydrocephalus, Dr. Sara Schaefer discusses with Dr. Mats Tullberg the symptoms of NPH, examination techniques and pearls,...

MDS Podcast The cholinergic contribution to freezing of gait in Parkinson’s disease

In this episode, host Dr. Michele Matarazzo interviews Dr. Nicolaas Bohnen about his team’s recent study using FEOBV PET to investigate cholinergic deficits in Parkinson’s disease patients with dopa-unresponsive...

MDS Podcast The longest prospective study of pallidal DBS for isolated dystonia

Dr. Mitra Afshari interviews Drs. Patricia Krause and Andrea Kühn on the results of a 10-year prospective follow-up study of a multicenter trial of GPI-DBS in isolated generalized and...

MDS Podcast Neurotrophic factors to restore dopaminergic terminals in Parkinson’s disease: A viral vector-delivered genetic therapy

Could gene therapy with neurotrophic factors help restore dopaminergic terminals in Parkinson’s disease? Dr. Michele Matarazzo speaks with Dr. Amber Van Laar about her team’s Phase 1b trial of AAV2–GDNF...