Research Briefs

Dr. Daniel Garbin Di Luca and Dr. Diana Olszewska | Toronto Western Hospital Movement Disorders Fellowships.

Dr. Simon Wing | Establishing a new link between brain and body.

Cricia Rinchon | Investigation of abnormal neuroplasticity in movement disorders such as Parkinson’s disease.

Dr. Alexandre Boutet | Demystifying neuromodulation of dysfunctional brain circuits in Parkinson’s disease patients with deep brain stimulation using high-resolution functional magnetic resonance imaging.

Dr. Anita Senthinathan, née Abeyesekera | Study of hypophonia, the soft speech that is often a characteristic of Parkinson’s disease.

Dr. Chelsia Kadgien | The role of VPS35 in transporting proteins that help brain cells communicate.

Ms Sarah Coakeley | Positron Emission Tomography Imaging of Pathological Tau in Parkinsonisms.

Dr. Natasha Radhu | Interactions between motor cortical inhibitory and excitatory circuits.

Dr. Jonathan Brotchie | Evaluation of chloroquine as a disease modifying treatment for Parkinson’s disease.

Dr. Bradley MacIntosh | Biomarkers of Cognitive Impairment in Parkinson’s disease.

Dr. Jean-Francois Daneault | Subthalamic deep brain stimulation in Parkinson’s disease: Effect on the mobility of patients and their caregiver

Dr. Mark Carpenter | A novel fMRI approach to investigating the pathophysiology of postural instability in Parkinson’s disease.

Dr. Karl Grenier | interaction between PINK1 and the Mitochondrial Processing Peptidase: Defining the role of Mitochondrial import defects in Parkinson’s Disease.

Dr. Abbas Sadikot | Creation of a Novel Computerized MRI-Integrated 3-D Histochemical Atlas of Parkinson’s Disease Brain.

Dr. Edward Fon | Regulation of Parkin function by deubiquitination.

Dr. Michael Schlossmacher | Characterization and validation of pharmacologically-driven signaling pathways to lower alpha-synuclein:
Implications for Parkinson.