SUPPORT THE NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY! 5K event Fundraiser on Friday, October 18th at the Waldo Fall Festival in Waldo, FL. Multiple sclerosis is an unpredictable, often disabling disease of the central nervous system that disrupts the flow of information within the brain, and between the brain and body. The…
Congratulations Drs. Masa-aki Higuchi, Daniel Martinez-Ramirez, Kelly D. Foote, Michael S. Okun & Chris J. Hass, on the publication of “Changes in Midline Tremor and Gait Following Deep Brain Stimulation for Essential Tremor.” This article was published in the latest issue of Tremor & Other Hyperkinet Movement Disorders. Abstract Background:…
Dr. Michael Okun and his team are always pushing the field forward to help those battling debilitating neurological conditions. Learn more about this “heavy hitter” of neuroscience who serves as chair of University of Florida neurology and executive director of the Norman Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases at …
Congratulations Drs. M.S. Okun, K.D. Foote and A. Gunduz on the publication of “The Functional Role of Thalamocortical Coupling in the Human Motor Network, ” in the August edition of the Journal of…
Congratulations to Dr. Giridhar Kalamangalam on the publication of “Montages for Noninvasive EEG Recording,” which was published in the Journal of Clinical Neurophysiol this month. Summary Identifying the localization, distribution, and polarity of waveforms are the prime goals of clinical scalp EEG analysis. Appropriate choices of bipolar and referential montages…
Congratulations Drs. Vanessa Holanda, Michael Okun, Margaret E Barry, and Kelly Foote, on the publication of “Postmortem Dissections of Common Targets for Lesion and Deep Brain Stimulation Surgeries,” in the August edition of Neurosurgery. Abstract BACKGROUND The subthalamic nucleus (STN), globus pallidus internus (GPi), and pedunculopontine…
Congratulations to Drs. Nikolaus McFarland, Michael Okun, and David Vaillancourt on the publication of “Development and validation of the automated imaging differentiation in parkinsonism (AID-P): a multicentre…
In an international study at 17 MRI centers in the U.S., Austria and Germany, 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. In the study…
Congratulations to Dr. Katharina Busl on the publication of “Neurocritical Care Outcomes, Research, and Technology A Review,” in the New England Journal of Medicine. Abstract Importance Neurocritical care has grown into an organized specialty that may have consequences for patient care, outcomes, research, and neurointensive care (neuroICU) technology. Observations Neurocritical…
Congratulations to Drs. Adolfo Ramirez-Zamora, Aysegul Gunduz, Vinata Vedam-Mai, Leonardo Almeida, Wissam Deeb, Kelly D. Foote and Michael S. Okun on the publication of “Proceedings of the Sixth Deep Brain Stimulation Think Tank Modulation of Brain Networks and Application of Advanced Neuroimaging, Neurophysiology, and Optogenetics.” The proceedings can soon be…
