Educating the Next Generation UF faculty led or contributed to more than 10 invited courses and seminars at the meeting, covering topics from Parkinson’s disease management and movement disorder surgery to neuroethics, epilepsy, autoimmune neurology, and neuromuscular junction disorders. Faculty who led sessions included Ashley Rawls, Gregory Pontone, Leonardo Brito de Almeida, S. Subramony, Matt…

On Friday, April 3, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, granted De Novo classification to Neuropacs™ Corp. for its diffusion MRI-based software, neuropacs™, which is designed to assist neurologists and neuroradiologists evaluate individuals with early-stage Parkinson’s disease. The approval was made possible by a National Institutes of Health-funded study led by University of Florida researchers.…

May is widely recognized as Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP) Awareness Month, dedicated to raising awareness for the rare neurodegenerative disease that affects movement, vision, and cognition. It is also an opportunity to recognize the individuals living with PSP, as well as the families and caregivers who support them. Learn more about our PSP Center of Excellence.…

At the Norman Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases, research fellow A. Enrique Martinez-Nunez, M.D., Movement Disorders neurologist and ALS research fellow, is working to answer one of the most urgent questions in neurodegenerative disease: why does ALS progress differently from one patient to another? As the institute’s ALS research fellow, made possible through a philanthropic gift…