Dear patients and trusted Physician Partners, We want to keep you fully informed of our action plan for continuing to provide quality health care through the COVID-19 challenge. We will be temporarily modifying our appointment process for our neuromedicine patients. The changes will allow us to ensure that…
Join us on Wednesday, March 25 for a live Q&A with our National Medical Director Dr. Michael S. Okun! Dr. Okun will be answering YOUR questions about Parkinson’s disease and the COVID-19 coronavirus, and give you tips about the precautions you and your loved ones should take to stay healthy.
Choose cabin fever over corona fever: Tips for Parkinson’s disease patients and families to survive the corona COVID-19 crisis.
With the COVID-19 pandemic growing and Parkinson’s patients stuck in their homes, we thought this would be a great time to talk about tips drawn from our book on exercise in the home setting.
In this webinar, Dr. Okun addressed the current thinking on how to prevent the onset of Parkinson’s and more.
Neuroscientists at the University of Florida have identified a way to differentiate tics from voluntary movements by analyzing electrophysiological signals in the brain. For patients with Tourette syndrome, this discovery could potentially guide development of new neuromodulation therapies to relieve symptoms.
Lauren Kenney receives “Best Translational Neuropsychology Student Research” award from APA Division 40, and Adrianna Ratajska receives ‘Best Student Submission’ award by APA Division 40.
The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration will be hosting a webinar taught by Dr. Melissa Armstrong titled “Corticobasal Syndrome & Corticobasal Degeneration: Basics & What You Need to Know”. Dr. Melissa Armstrong is an Associate Professor in the Department of Neurology and the Director of the…
Lauren Kenney receives “Best Translational Neuropsychology Student Research” award from APA Division 40. Lauren will present her research during the Blue Ribbon Awards symposium at the 2020 annual meeting of APA in Washington, DC. Her project is entitled “Classifying Cognitive Subtypes in Non-Demented Individuals with Parkinson Disease: A data-driven Approach”…
Swedish researchers report that very fit long-distance skiers were about 30% less likely to develop Parkinson’s disease during their 20-year study.
