Parkinson’s: Most forms of exercise equally helpful in managing symptoms
Dr. Okun weighs in on the importance of researching the impact of exercise on Parkinson's with Medical News Today.
Dr. Okun weighs in on the importance of researching the impact of exercise on Parkinson's with Medical News Today.
Dr. Burns is tackling Parkinson’s from all angles - from patient care to cutting-edge research in neuroscience.
An image from the review “Genetic and environmental factors in Parkinson’s converge on immune function and inflammation” is featured on the cover of the January edition of the journal Movement Disorders.
Movement Disorders and Neurorestoration Training Program 2020 Joint T32 Predoc Trainees & Movement Fellows Research Symposium University of Florida Friday, October 30th, 9:00 AM Our T32 trainees and Movement Disorders neurology fellows will present the research they’ve been working on. Download the Joint T32 and Dellows Research…
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”…
A research team led by UF’s David Vaillancourt, Ph.D., used a non-invasive MRI method with 1,002 patients to develop an automated system to accurately diagnose Parkinson’s disease and related but different neurodegenerative disorders.
University of Florida researchers are leading a multinational registry that tracks the progress of patients who have received deep brain stimulation for Tourette syndrome. In a report published in JAMA Neurology, the team reports after 1 year of stimulation a mean 45% decrease in Yale Global Tic Severity Scale score…
Researchers at the University of Florida have discovered a way to measure the progression of Parkinson disease through brain imaging. See our original post on this research here. This discovery was also discussed on page 4 of the UF Explore research magazine. This new brain imaging…
What are the potential treatment breakthroughs currently being explored for Parkinson’s disease? What are the details that patients need to know about those potential breakthroughs? That’s what Michael Okun, MD, Co-Director of our UF Health Center for Movement Disorders & Neurorestoration and Medical Director for National Parkinson Foundation works to…
Deep brain stimulation has helped more than 100,000 people with various neurologic disorders around the world.