On Wednesday, March 6, at 10am PT, Dr. Rebecca Gilbert will discuss deep brain stimulation (DBS) and focused ultrasound (FUS) with her guest, Dr. Ihtsham ul Haq, in the latest episode of Dr. Gilbert Hosts. These two medical procedures can help treat certain symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. Each can be quite beneficial, but they are not appropriate for everyone.
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A this special meeting of the Palo Alto PD support group on Friday, February 23, 2:30-3:30pm, we welcome Stanford movement disorder specialist Dr. Kathleen Poston. Dr. Poston will be speaking about a new biological definition of Parkinson’s Disease that she and others are proposing. (The effort was organized by the Michael J. Fox Foundation. Dr. Poston is one of the co-authors.)
… Full Story>On February 29 at 1pm PT, the Lewy Body Dementia Association (LBDA) will host a webinar on “Introduction to Synuclein Biomarkers: How Researchers are ‘Seeing’ Lewy Bodies in the Living Brain.” Kathleen Poston, MD, will discuss recent advances in the development of biomarkers for alpha-synuclein, how they are changing research in Lewy body dementia (LBD), and how they may change clinical practice in the future.
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El miércoles 28 de febrero a las 6 p. m. (hora del Pacífico), Brain Support Network y Stanford Neurology organizarán un seminario gratuito en español sobre la demencia por la enfermedad de Parkinson y por demencia con cuerpos de Lewy (DCL).
… Full Story>In early December 2023, Stanford Parkinson’s Community Outreach (med.stanford.edu/parkinsons) and Brain Support Network (brainsupportnetwork.org) co-hosted a discussion for caregivers to share the top three things they have learned about caregiving. Caregivers offered advice to each other, including advice caregivers wished they could tell their younger selves.
Participants in this discussion were members of local San Francisco Bay Area caregiver support groups run by Stanford and Brain Support Network. Participants have experience caring for those with Parkinson’s disease, Lewy body dementia, progressive supranuclear palsy, multiple system atrophy, and corticobasal degeneration. Very little of the advice was disease-specific.
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