What is Deep Brain Stimulation therapy? Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) surgery or therapy is a treatment where a pacemaker type device is inserted into a patient’s brain with Parkinson’s disease (PD) to improve their motor symptoms or physical symptoms. DBS surgery consists of placing a wire with the tip in the deep part of the brain; the wire exits the skull through a hole and runs under the skin down into the chest where a pacemaker type battery is placed …
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John Bertoni: I don’t know if I’m going to be duplicating myself but did I ever tell you the story? I didn’t see it marked that we had done it before, a podcast about doing Pneumoencephalograms. Danish Bhatti: No, tell me about it. John Bertoni: My fourth year of medical school at University of Michigan. We had really excellent neuro radiologists and I wanted to spend time with them. I think I may have been with them for somewhere between …
In this article, we will continue where we left off in the last newsletter in terms of research and neuroprotection in Parkinson’s Disease. This article may be read separately but is a continuation of the theme of neuroprotection research in Parkinson’s Disease. Gout, the unwalkable disease, was first identified by Egyptians nearly 2,600 years BC, but the most famous reference is to the description by Hippocrates in the Fifth Century B.C. whose aphorism for Gout still hold true. Over the …
The biggest efforts in Parkinson’s Disease (PD) have been to figure out ways to slow down this condition and then down the road consider ways that will stop or even potentially reverse the progression of Parkinson’s Disease. These efforts have been underway for more than 20 years starting as early as 1980s with attempt with vitamin E in high doses (DATATOP Study) along with selegiline a newly discovered agent at that point. Those efforts failed and vitamin E was found …
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disease, with a life time risk of 4 percent. However, risk increases with age with a prevalence of one percent at age of 65 but rising to 20 percent after the age of 80 (Jane A. Driver. Neurology 2009) One out of twenty patients, is however, diagnosed before the age of 40. Parkinsonism alone is associated with a two-fold increase in the risk of death with a significant impact on mobility …
Parkinson Disease is a Neuro-degenerative disease which means that it is seen due to gradual loss off neurons or brain cells in certain parts of the brain. This process starts years before the diagnosis and an estimated 60% or more of the brain cells are lost before clinical diagnoses of Parkinson’s disease can be made due to motor symptoms. Once this process is initiated it continues on its own pace, which is different for each patient. Once this was recognized …
This is the promo of Minifellowship in Movement Disorders Course. Highlighting the importance of Minifellowship in MD Course, talking about course challenges, recommendations, feedback by students of Dr. Danish Bhatti MD. Introduction This is a program intended to enhance Movement Disorders (MD) training for General Neurologists, Psychiatrists, Physiatrists (PM&R), and Primary Care Providers to improve their skills in Movement Disorders. This program will use blended learning, and the most modern teaching methodology including online lectures, reading assignments, tasks, quizzes and …
POWERPOINT SLAVARERY Don’t follow the structure you premade, take feedback. Eyes get stuck to the screen. (blank screens white or black) You just put something together without knowing where your students are at. Avoid too much content. Avoid too fast of a pace Pictures can be distractors. Be Pragmatic – he knew what the information is but he knew where I was and what questions I have to answer Develop a Rapport: Be Personable Have activities and tasks (pertinent, rapport …
My father developed Lymphoma in 2014, the year I finished my Movement Disorders fellowship, joined University of Nebraska Medical Center as faculty and started visiting Pakistan. We only found it out a year later. He was delighted for my first visit back in July 2014, a visit after 5 years in US (busy in training and not risking visa status). But as we planned visit, he asked me to visit the local institutions and teach; while I ruminated about get …
Main idea to discuss is about developing a module on Stroke. We need to talk about uniform template for this.We have to make modules and we will be presenting them in what we call a learning management system LMS. We want to develop a LMS under APPNA MERIT. I am using LMS of UNMC Canvas. Canvas can help in delivering topics, help in track students performance, quizes and things like that. There is catalog of UNMC in which i am …
