It was the late 1980s when Gary Mund felt his pinky tremble. At first it seemed like a random occurrence, but pretty quickly he realized something was seriously wrong. Within two years, Mund — a crew worker with the Eastern Municipal Water District in Riverside County — was diagnosed with…
Congratulations to Dr. Michael Okun on the publication of “A Statement of the MDS on Biological Definition, Staging, and Classification of Parkinson’s Disease,” which appears in the December 2023 issue of Movement Disorders. Disease staging is an important tool in both clinical research and medical practice because it allows for…
Congratulations to Drs. Anna Khanna and Christina Wilson on the publication of ” Use of Stroke Alert Sticker in the Field Decreases Time to Acute Interventions for Ischemic Stroke Patients.” which appears in the December 2023 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience Nursing. Stroke is a medical emergency requiring timely…
Buna Joe Wilder, M.D., a longtime faculty member and advocate for the College of Medicine, recently passed away at age 94. Affectionately known as B.J., Dr. Wilder’s career at UF spanned more than four decades, and throughout that time he impacted the lives of countless faculty, staff, residents and patients,…
Congratulations Drs. Michael Okun and Kelly Foote on the publication of “EP013 / #143 Impact of Image -Guided Programming (IGP) on Initial DBS Clinic Visit Times and Outcomes”, which appears in the December issue of Neuromodulation: Technology at the Neural Interface. Introduction Historically, optimization of DBS programming consists of…
Dr. Kalamangalam the Director of the Wilder Center for Epilepsy Research shows a humbling case which included a team of neurologists, neurosurgeons, neuropsychologists, techs, scientists, researchers, advanced imaging, some new devices, stereo-EEG and a big dose of ‘humility.’ The person eventually became seizure free and finished college and got a…
Congratulations to Drs. Leonardo Almeida, Kelly Foot, and Michael Okun, on the publication of “WarpDrive: Improving spatial normalization using manual refinements,” which will appear in the January 2024 issue of Medical Image Analysis. Abstract Spatial normalization—the process of mapping subject brain images to an average template brain—has evolved over…
Congratulations Dr. Matthew Farrer and Dr. Robert Sharp, on the publication of “Experimental procedures for flow cytometry of wild-type mouse brain: a systematic review,” which appears in the October 2023 issue of Frontiers in Immunology. Abstract Objective: The aim of this study was to systematically review the neuroimmunology literature…
Congratulations to Drs. Katharina Busl and Carolina Maciel on the publication of “Headache Management in the Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit,” which appears in the October 2023 issue of Current Pain and Headache Reports. Abstract Headache is a common symptom in the Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit (NeuroICU). Our goal is…
Congratulations to Dr. Irene Malaty on the publication of ” An Empirical Comparison of Commonly Used Universal Rating Scales for Dystonia,” which appears in the October 2023 issue of Movement Disorders Clinical Practice. Abstract Background There are several widely used clinical rating scales for documenting the severity and distribution of…
