@alfonsofasano.bsky.social Q & A with Sharon's son, George. Episode 360: Special Guest Alfonso Fasano, MD, PhD, FAAN: Dr & Patient Advocacy & Reprograming the Brain
Listen to The TogetherForSharon® Podcast on Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/43PC...
🎉✨ Please join us in celebrating @alfonsofasano.bsky.social, Clinician Investigator with the Krembil Brain Institute at UHN, who has been awarded $20,000 in funding from Hydrocephalus Canada!
🔗: linktr.ee/krembil
Very few seats available for the Canadian Hot Topics in #movementdisorders, endorsed by the Movement Disorders Society and in collaboration with @uoftmedicine.bsky.social.
The 2-day meeting will be held in person in Toronto on Nov 7 and 8.
DM if interested.
@kbi-uhn.bsky.social @uhn.ca
15 years (and 12 editions) later, here we are again for our annual 4-day intensive course on the diagnosis and treatment of #movementdisorders.
This year we're in charming Milan, hosted by the conference centre of Humanitas University.
More info here: www.mdscourse.com
Wonderful lecture on the role of #DBS for #Freezing of #Gait by @alfonsofasano.bsky.social at the #ICFOG2025 meeting in #Atlanta
@icfog.bsky.social
📺✨Congratulations to Dr. Alfonso Fasano, Clinician Investigator at UHN’s Krembil Brain Institute, for his recent CBC feature!
💙🎸 The piece also follows Fabio Dwyer, a musician and UHN patient with Parkinson’s disease who is currently participating in the study.
🔗: linktr.ee/krembil
movementdisorders.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Happy to share our work in @movedisorder.bsky.social We compared outcomes of bilateral #HIFU and #DBS in essential tremor, identified thalamic hotspots using probabilistic mapping.
@fusfoundation.bsky.social @alfonsofasano.bsky.social
An incredible story of innovation and hope.
A Canadian trial led by Dr. @alfonsofasano.bsky.social at UHN's @kbi-uhn.bsky.social shows promising early results in managing #Parkinsons symptoms.
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Dr. Alfonso Fasano, a neurologist at University Health Network in Toronto, talks with Dwyer. (Turgut Yeter/CBC)
Early results of an Adaptive Deep Brain Stimulation trial show promising improvements in speech, movement and quality of life for patients with #Parkinsons.
Learn more through the eyes of patient Fabio Dywer and #TeamUHN neurologist Dr. @alfonsofasano.bsky.social Fasano:
bit.ly/3F4bTCB
📖✨Congratulations to Drs. Alfonso Fasano, Andres Lozano and Suneil Kalia, researchers at UHN’s Krembil Brain Institute, for their recent publication in Nature!
🔗: linktr.ee/krembil
#Parkinsons #Dopamine #SteamCells #NoResearchNoCure #ResearchMatters #MovementDisorder
🚨 Final Call for Late-Breaking Abstracts!
Are you conducting cutting-edge research on Freezing of Gait (FOG) in Parkinson’s or other movement disorders?
We welcome original research across clinical, mechanistic, and technological domains 🧠🧪🤖
🔗 Submit now: icfog.org/meetings/abs...
Standard language in patents (eg ‘prior art’)
🩶 This #ParkinsonsAwarenessMonth, we’re spotlighting just a few of our people at UHN's Krembil Brain institute that are driving research and discovery forward. Because behind every lab coat is a researcher deeply committed to changing lives. #NoResearchNoCure 🔬🥼📚
🔗: instagram.com/krembilresearch
The first update on #mds by @mayoclinic.org and @uhntoronto.bsky.social just kicked off with Dr Lang’s lecture on ‘what’s #parkinson’
Join us at ICFOG 2025 in Atlanta (June 3–6), here global minds meet to tackle one of the most disabling symptoms of Parkinson’s and related disorders: Freezing of Gait.
Connect with top experts, share breakthroughs, and shape the future of care. Don’t miss out, register now!
🔗Learn more icfog.org
📅 Join our webinar on 24 April to find out more about #DeepBrainStimulation surgery!
We'll be hearing from experts (including @alfonsofasano.bsky.social) and a person with Parkinson's who recently had DBS to find out the questions to ask your healthcare professionals.
👉 Register: buff.ly/Y0bW7gc
🎉Congratulations to Dr. Karun Singh, Senior Scientist @dkjei-uhn.bsky.social, for receiving a CIHR grant for his project, "SCN2A regulates embryonic excitatory/inhibitory balance through a neurogenic mechanism."
I had fun summarizing 2024 #parkinson research for @medscape.com
Thank you @drisubramanian.bsky.social, we covered a lot, including works from @albertoespay.bsky.social and @andreashorn.org
@pfresearchteam.bsky.social @michaelokun.bsky.social @kbi-uhn.bsky.social
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
I agree, but I’m hopeful. Journals are notoriously slow when it comes to implementing social media strategies. They don’t allocate resources or personnel unfortunately
What's the relationship between #dystonia and #tremor?
Can we solve it on clinical grounds only?
We used to have dystonic tremor and tremor associated with dystonia... is this enough?
Turns out it's ... complicated.
See what we think here: www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/...
Perfection, sometimes it does exist.
We just successfully wrapped the 12th Advanced Course on Diagnosis and Treatment of Movement Disorders, this time in Bari, Puglia, along with Francesca Morgante, @alfonsofasano.bsky.social, & Davide Martino. Intense and rewarding 4 days of learning together in a beautiful part of the world.
A screenshot of a paper on bioarxiv illustrating the lack of blue sky share button!
Would you like to see @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social add a share to blue sky button?! I know I would! Share this post to let @richardsever.bsky.social @erictopol.bsky.social and others at bioarxiv know!
Thank you @blueark.app, the end of (my) X account is getting closer.
Our network meta-analysis:
#DBS of the #subthalamus worsens falling in #parkinson's
No positive/negative effect of pallidal stimulation or intestinal #levodopa
Newest subcutaneous levodopa or foslevodopa pumps improve falling, a first in advanced treatments!
jnnp.bmj.com/content/earl...
Hard to tell, how about pnes in temporal lobe epilepsy? That too seems more prone than other localizations. It’s clearly a multifaceted poorly understood scenario
Tt's clear now that having a neurological issue is very strong risk factor for FND. This is old news, and it's helping our understanding of FNS (eg in DBS patients).
All the past emphasis on the psyche stems from the same: a brain disorder causing psychiatric and/or neurological problems.
Unfortunately most of the pro-brexit have never taken a plane…
