Stanford PD Community Blog

In early October, the Davis Phinney Foundation hosted a virtual conference.  Greg Pontone, MD, MHS, with Johns Hopkins Parkinson’s Disease Neuropsychiatry Clinic, spoke about cognition, mood, and the management of cognitive and mood changes in PD.  We at Stanford Parkinson’s Community Outreach listened to the talk, and are sharing our notes. 

“Dr. Gilbert Hosts” is a webinar series sponsored by the American Parkinson Disease Association (APDA), featuring Dr. Rebecca Gilbert, a movement disorder specialist. In September, the webinar speaker, Dr. Tim Greenamyre, gave a thorough overview of gene therapy and Parkinson’s disease (PD), and then answered questions.  We at Stanford Parkinson’s Community Outreach listened to the webinar and are sharing our notes. 

The Parkinson Society of British Columbia (PSBC) offered a webinar in mid-September on freezing and how to prevent the condition from occurring in Parkinson’s Disease (PD). Shelly Yu, a neuro physiotherapist with PSBC, provided PD patients and caregivers on strategies to minimize freezing and maintain activity. Specifically, the webinar covered the what, when, where, and why of freezing. 

In early September, the Journal of Parkinson’s Disease (based in Amsterdam), The Cure Parkinson’s Trust (based in the UK), and Parkinson’s Movement co-hosted one of their quarterly webinars on Parkinson’s Disease (PD).  The topic was prodromal PD, which refers to the stage at which people do not meet the diagnostic criteria for PD but they do exhibit many of the symptoms.  Those with “prodromal PD” are obviously at a higher than average risk of meeting the diagnostic criteria for PD in the future. We at Stanford Parkinson’s Community Outreach attended the webinar and are sharing our notes.