http://mdc.mbi.ufl.edu Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:51:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The UF Movement Disorders Center is excited to welcome, belated though it may be, Tetsuo Ashizawa, MD and S.H. Subramony, MD to the Movement Disorders team. They bring an expertise in ataxia and in Huntington's disease to the table and are holding special clinics for these disorders. In addition to ... http://mdc.mbi.ufl.edu/news/welcoming-drs-ashizawa-and-subramony-to-the-ufmdc-team A team from the University of Florida and the University of Freiburg in Germany collaborated for this case report: Int J Neurosci. 2009;119(11):2118-23. Tracing the origin of L-2-hydroxyglutaric aciduria in a family. Sass JO, Romrell JS, Vinson SY, Fernandez HH, Fischer J, Rodriguez RL, Okun MS. Labor für Klinische Biochemie und Stoffwechsel, Zentrum für ... http://mdc.mbi.ufl.edu/research/two-ufs-publish-case-report-on-l-2-hydroxyglutaric-aciduria-in-a-family On Friday Night Oct 30, 2009 Charlie and Michael Sperrazza presented the UF Movement Disorders Center with a $5000 dollar check to support research. The Eagles have been amazingly loyal supporters of the MDC and their contributions over the years have helped keep the creative research spirit alive and ... http://mdc.mbi.ufl.edu/research/gainesvilles-fraternal-order-of-eagles-raise-money-for-uf-mdc The Tyler's Hope Center for Comprehensive Dystonia Care is pleased to introduce the first Dystonia Educational Day Center which will be held on Friday, November 13th.  The program will run from 8:30am - 3:00pm and will include invited guest speakers from our interdisciplinary team including psychiatry, physical therapy, communication sciences, occupational ... http://mdc.mbi.ufl.edu/education/introducing-the-first-dystonia-educational-day-center-at-the-ufmdc Allied Team Training for Parkinson's Disease was hosted at the University of Florida Gainesville-- Movement Disorders Center site (Sept 30-Oct 4).  Teams came from all over the country to train in best practices in the interdisciplinary care of the Parkinson's disease patient.  UF took advantage of the hosting venue to ... http://mdc.mbi.ufl.edu/education/allied-team-training-for-pd-at-uf-site UF just published a study in this month's Journal of Neurology citing that most ER encounters are not DBS related-- We must remember to take care of the whole patient. The first author was Andrew Resnick! Abstract follows: J Neurol. 2009 Oct 8. [Epub ahead of print] The number and nature of ... http://mdc.mbi.ufl.edu/research/uf-publishes-study-on-er-encounters-and-dbs Michael J. Fox sits down with the Globe and Mail to talk about Parkinson Disease and his research foundation. The foundation demands that scientists share results and tools, and it closely monitors their work. But it also encourages them to take risks, devoting roughly $2-million a year to a rapid-response fund ... http://mdc.mbi.ufl.edu/research/canadas-globe-mail-interviews-michael-j-fox-on-his-foundation Together with Tyler's Hope for a Dystonia Cure, the UFMDC invites you to view our new dystonia website dedicated to our Comprehensive Dystonia Care Center. Our team includes specialized physicians, a physician assistant, nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists, psychologists, researchers as well as other interdisciplinary specialists. The new pages detail what ... http://mdc.mbi.ufl.edu/medicine/tylers-hope-comprehensive-care-center-website-launch Please read the complete article here. Excerpts follow: Together, the findings suggest that gene therapy to enable the brain to retain its ability to produce dopamine, a neurotransmitter that falls in critically short supply in Parkinson’s patients, could be safely attempted during earlier stages of the disease with an added likelihood ... http://mdc.mbi.ufl.edu/research/uf-scientists-construct-%e2%80%98off-switch%e2%80%99-for-parkinson-therapy Driving is one of the biggest issues facing a Parkinson patient as their disease progresses. Our friends at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston put together a video for the National Parkinson Foundation about this struggle with advice for patients and caregivers. Watch it at the NPF website here. At ... http://mdc.mbi.ufl.edu/education/parkinson-disease-and-driving The Dystonia Medical Research Foundation (DMRF) has a Twitter account and they put out the call for dystonia sufferers and anyone else to tweet about dystonia on one particular day, July 22nd. Twitter is a messaging system limited to 140 characters that a lot of individuals are using, mostly as ... http://mdc.mbi.ufl.edu/education/dystonia-awareness-day-on-twitter The Okuns' 2nd child, a daughter, entered the world this morning and mother and daughter are doing well! Congratulations to them on a beautiful girl! http://mdc.mbi.ufl.edu/news/congratulations-to-dr-and-mrs-okun-on-their-new-baby This is an older article from the Palm Beach Post in 2007 about one of our patients. One mother's walking miracle - By Rachel Sauer - Sunday, May 13, 2007 Excerpt: "Please," Viviana remembers pleading. "Please. We can't do this anymore." Sharma called Dr. Michael Okun, a neurologist at Shands Hospital at the University ... http://mdc.mbi.ufl.edu/medicine/dystonia-and-dbs-article-from-palm-beach-post We have recently developed and employed a Fast Gray Matter Acquisition T1 Inversion Recovery (FGATIR - pronounced F-gator) 3T MRI sequence to more reliably visualize the structures targeted in deep brain stimulation. You can see comparative screenshots of the FGATIR vs T1 and T2 FLAIR on the FGATIR page. Coronal images ... http://mdc.mbi.ufl.edu/research/fgatir-new-imaging-method-for-visualizing-dbs-targets-developed-at-uf Embedded video from <a href="http://www.cnn.com/video" mce_href="http://www.cnn.com/video">CNN Video</a> http://mdc.mbi.ufl.edu/research/tylers-hope-and-ufmdc-featured-on-cnn Excerpt from UF Health Science Center News Article: A growth factor used in clinical experiments to rescue dying brain cells in Parkinson patients may cause unwanted weight loss if delivered to specific areas of the brain, according to University of Florida researchers in the March online edition of Molecular Therapy. The discovery ... http://mdc.mbi.ufl.edu/research/experimental-parkinsons-therapy-may-have-robust-weight-loss-effect Excerpt from UF Health Science Center News article: Doctors may be able to tailor a specialized form of brain surgery to more closely match the needs of Parkinson patients, according to results from the first large-scale effort to compare the two current target areas of deep brain stimulation surgery, or DBS. Called ... http://mdc.mbi.ufl.edu/research/the-sweet-spot-uf-doctors-test-targets-for-parkinson-surgery