MDS Podcast International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society
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Stay up to date on novel, clinically-relevant research findings in Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders. Each episode of the International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society podcast discusses a relevant development in the field, including highlighted journal articles and interviews with the authors.
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Special Series: Approach to patients with acquired choreas
Dr. Ruth Walker and Dr. Molly Cincotta discuss causes of acquired chorea and approach to the work-up of a patient with an acquired chorea.
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Hot Topic: Focused Ultrasound in Movement Disorders - Brain ablations as a therapeutic tool
In this Hot Topic episode, Dr. Michele Matarazzo interviews Dr. Raul Martinez on the recent evidence and future applications of focused ultrasound-based ablations in movement disorders, such as Parkinson's disease and essential tremors. Discover how this innovative approach is improving patient care and what it could mean for the future of medical treatment.
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Special Series: Update on therapies for Huntington's disease
In the latest installment of the Chorea Special Series, Dr. Ruth Walker interviews Prof. Sarah Tabrizi about the current state of therapies for Huntington’s disease, and what is coming down the pipeline.
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A new pathway to find structural variations in inherited neurological cases - the SCA4 example
In this episode Dr. Sarah Camargos interviews Dr. Zhonghbo Chen and Prof. Henry Houlden, first and senior author of a MDJ paper exploring a GGC repeat expansion in the ZFHX3 gene associated with spinocerebellar ataxia type 4. They describe a criative methodology to find a gene in a family with a Swedish ancestry.
Journal CME is available until April 04, 2025
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Special Series: Approach to patients with genetic choreas
Dr. Ruth Walker invites Prof. Emilia Gatto and Dr. Kevin Peikert onto the MDS Podcast for the second episode of the Chorea Special series. Together they discuss the general approach to patients with chorea of genetic etiology, with specific clues to diagnosis in terms of neurological and other features. They also discuss the nomenclature of neuroacanthocytosis syndromes, specific clues to the diagnosis in the clinical presentation and laboratory findings.
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Concomitant pathologies and their clinical impact in multiple system atrophy
Dr. Eduardo Fernandez discusses with Dr. Hiroaki Sekiya the surprising findings of his study evaluating the presence of concomitant pathologies and how they impact the disease progression in a large cohort of patients with MSA from the Mayo Clinic brain bank.
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