Decoding Parkinson’s Subtypes (Part Two)

This interview with Dr. Alberto Espay is an extension of our Decoding Parkinson’s Subtypes Live Well Today Webinar. During the Live Well Today Webinar, we had more questions from our live audience than we had time to address.
In this video, Dr. Espay talks about symptom-based subtypes, symptom-severity subtypes, young onset Parkinson’s, genetic variants, and more!
You can watch the first part of our conversation with Dr. Espay here: davisphinneyfo...
During the conversation, we reference a blog post about genetic testing. View that post here: davisphinneyfo...
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Speaker Bio: Alberto J. Espay, MD, is a movement disorder specialist who practices at the University of Cincinnati's Gardner Center for Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders. Dr. Espay currently serves as chair of the Pan American Section of the International Parkinson and Movement Disorders Society (MDS-PAS), and he has published over 350 peer-reviewed articles and 40 book chapters. He has also written 10 books, including Concise Neurology (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins/Wolters Kluwer Health, 2011), with Dr. Jose Biller; Common Movement Disorders Pitfalls (Cambridge University Press, 2012), with Dr. Anthony Lang; and Practical Neurology Visual Review (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins/Wolters Kluwer Health, 2013 [in press]), with Dr. Jose Biller. He has also co-authored a book--Brain Fables--with Benjamin Stecher, who lives with Parkinson's.

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Brilliant. Thank you both for this incredibly important interview. So much important ground covered in part 1 and 2 of this from tremor vs. non-tremor phenotypes, disease modification vs. symptom modification, biological subtypes vs. clinical subtypes, young-onset PD, the value of genetics and so much more. I am in awe.