My interview with U.S. FDA Commissioner Dr. Stephen M. Hahn today Medscape on the #SARSCoV2 vaccines, monoclonal antibodies, and rapid home tests 1/ medscape.com/viewarticle/93…

Results from my 1st grant (Thank you ⁦Dystonia Medical Research Foundation⁩!): Head tremor cervical #dystonia onset = subtype with cerebellar disability ⬆️Superior vermis atrophy, gait variability, SARA scores. ⬆️SARA scores correlate with ⬇️Cerebellar volume in all patients link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Early mood/behavioral symptoms as predictors of complications of dopamine replacement therapy (dyskinesia, fluctuations) from PPMI data Jared Hinkle, Greg Pontone and others Movement Disorders Clinical Practice onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/md…

What will it take to get the precision therapies we need? tmrwedition.com/2021/02/08/sup…

CD8 T cell nigral infiltration precedes synucleinopathy in early stages of Parkinson’s disease academic.oup.com/brain/article-…

Thanks Abhimanyu Mahajan for the excellent talk at Johns Hopkins Medicine Movement Disorders Grand Rounds on head tremor in CD. What better topic to inspire 40 minutes of discussion from a 45 minute talk!? #lumpingorsplitting🤷🏼‍♂️

Very promising case for DBS to the reticular nigra for treatment resistant schizophrenia with acute & reproducible dose-response effects for hallucinations out in Biological Psychiatry – Cascella et al. / Johns Hopkins University Schizophrenia Center biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S0006-…

Can individual anatomic or network-based substrates of parkinsonian bradykinesia components (amplitude, frequency) be parsed based on their responses to DBS? Min Jae Kim led a study that suggests they can using infrared motion tracking doi.org/10.1093/brainc…

Does dopamine replacement affect cognitive (thinking) function in Parkinson's? Is it all about the motor? Guess what folks, Semiller, Pontone and Mills teach us about the aspects of cognition that 'change' on and off dopamine replacement therapy. Key Points: - The authors point

Great to catch up with past and current fellows at #MDScongress

Does exercise have a dose-dependent impact on cognition in PD? Our work led by Joseph Seemiller now online Parkinsonism & Related Disorders Physical activity levels associate with cognitive performance in OFF and ON-states. Even some physical activity can benefit cognition. prd-journal.com/article/S1353-…