NEUROMEDICINE SUMMER SEMINAR SERIES
This seminar series runs every Monday at 12:00 PM in the DeWeese auditorium. Use this flyer to see the dates, topics and presenters. 2017 Neuromedicine Summer Calendar…
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Tourette syndrome: Finally, something to shout about
Congratulations Dr. Michael Okun on your publication of Tourette syndrome: Finally, something to shout about in the June 8, 2017 edition of “The Conversation.” Tourette syndrome is a mysterious medical curiosity that has puzzled doctors for more than a century. People who have it suffer from tics and other…
SSEP in Therapeutic Hyperthermia Era
A lot has changed since the seminal paper by Levy et al. in JAMA neurology in 1985. The advent of therapeutic hypothermia (TH) has introduced uncertainty in prognostication. Cahill et al. reviewed in 2014 the most commonly used prognostic markers (physical examination, myoclonus, EEG, somatosensory evoked potentials SSEP,…
It’s that time of year again – time to prepare for the annual closing of the fiscal year.
Please pay close attention to the departmental fiscal deadlines listed below in red. It is important that these deadlines are followed in order to allow staff adequate time to prepare for the university wide year-end closing process. Please share…
In the news…
Dr. Okun was quoted in the New York Times article on June 1st, “New Electrical Brain Stimulation Technique Shows Promise in Mice.” You can read it online using this link. Dr. Michael Okun, a neurologist at the University of Florida and medical director for the Parkinson’s…
Paper named one of most influential articles of 2016 for BMC Neurology, according to Altmetric.com.
Congratulations Daniel Martinez-Ramirez, Leonardo Almeida, Juan C. Giugni, Bilal Ahmed, Masa-aki Higuchi, Christopher S. Little, John P. Chapman, Caroline Mignacca, Aparna Wagle Shukla, Christopher W. Hess, Karen Wheeler Hegland and Michael S. Okun Your paper ” Rate of aspiration pneumonia in hospitalized Parkinson’s disease patients: a cross-sectional study: was named as one of the most influential articles in 2016 for BMC Neurology,…
Effects of expiratory muscle strength training on maximal respiratory pressure and swallow-related quality of life in individuals with multiple sclerosis
Congratulations Dr. Janis Daly on the publication of “Effects of expiratory muscle strength training on maximal respiratory pressure and swallow-related quality of life in individuals with multiple sclerosis.” This article was published in the May edition of Multiple Sclerosis Journal – Experimental, Translational and Clinical. Abstract…
NICAP
Have you heard about NICAP? In 2010, Dr. Guzick and UF Health Leadership created the Interdisciplinary Clinical and Academic Programs (ICAP). One of the fourt ICAP, the Neuromedicine ICAP (NICAP) consists of institutional leaders, faculty, fellows, residents, staff, and both graduate and undergraduate interns. The Quality Improvement branch of…
“The American Academy of Neurology Affirms the Revival of Cooling for the Revived”
This is the “sexy” title of an editorial in the May 31, 2017 Neurology journal issue. Authors, Drs. Kapinos and Becker, praise the authors of the AAN practice guideline for acute interventions to reduce brain injury in comatose adults after cardiac arrest with ROSC (published in the same issue, Epub…
Gait Parameters Across Parkinson’s Disease Patients Treated With Psychotropics
Congratulations Drs. Martinez-Ramirez, Wolf, Almeida & Okun on the publication of “Gait Parameters Across Parkinson’s Disease Patients Treated With Psychotropics,” which was published in the April issue of Neurology ABSTRACT Objective: To compare GAITrite® parameters between Parkinson’s disease patients on psychotropics and those without psychotropics. Background: Parkinson’s disease patients have…
