Half-Mile Timing – Contractor License Season of Hope 5k/15k – 12/8/2012 Hawthorne Trail Gainesville, Fl Event 1 Girls 8&U 5000 Meter Run ======================================================================= Name Age Team Finals Points ======================================================================= Finals 1 Smith, Katie 8 Unattached 36:51.30 10 2 Fox,…
The Mizuno award was given to Genko Oyama, M.D., PhD., a former graduate of a two year fellowship at UF’s Center for Movement Disorders and Neurorestoration (2009-2011). The award aims to praise the achievement of Honorary Professor, Yoshikuni Mizuno, and was established in 2008. This award will be given to…
Dr. David Vaillancourt from the UF Department of Health and Human Performance and the UF Center for Movement Disorders and Neurorestoration was awarded a large grant from NIH study study imaging biomarkers of Parkinson’s disease and movement disorders. A summary of the research is below: Parkinson’s…
Dr. Catherine Price in the Department of Psychology at the University of Florida Center for Movement Disorders and Neurorestoration was awarded a large NIH R01 this week to study post-operative cognitive dysfunction. A summary of the Research is Below: Older adults are at increased risk for experiencing acute and long-term…
Chris Hass, Ph.D. and Mark Tillman, PhD., from the College of Heath and Human Performance at UF, are playing host to the American Society of Biomechanics annual meeting this week on the UF campus. Â The meeting will be held at the UF Hilton across the street from the Center…
UF undergraduate student Sara Daniel published this paper on bone health in men with Parkinson’s disease. It is becoming clear than men with PD are at risk for brittle bones and should be getting bone scans and having regular discussions about their bone health. Below is the abstract from Sara’s…
The University of Florida Center for Movement Disorders & Neurorestoration is a proud participant in this program. It is exciting to see NPF reach this milestone. NPF’s Landmark Quality Improvement Initiative Enrolls 5,000 Parkinson’s Patients New Findings Presented at the American Academy of Neurology’s 64th Annual Meeting…
UF Med student Grant Hubsher recently published an article describing how a single observation in a patient with Parkinson’s disease taking amantadine for flu, led to the use of amantadine in Parkinson’s disease.  His paper appears in this month’s edition of Neurology.  The abstract is below: Neurology. 2012 Apr…
Fay Horak, et. al., at the Oregon Health & Science University just published this paper suggesting that STN DBS may have a more detrimental effect on balance as compared to GPi DBS. Â Many studies are now focusing on better defining the differences in the surgical targets chosen…
This TEDx talk on Deep Brain Stimulation titled the Electric Brain was given on February 11, 2012. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7udZ5ux0dYE Learn more about Deep Brain Stimulation… The human brain is a supercomputer with networks that control the various functions that make us who we are,…
