Movement Disorders

The 17th World Congress on Controversies in Neurology (CONy) took place March 23-25 2023 in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Prof. Amos D. Korczyn, CONy President (University of Tel-Aviv, Tel-Aviv, Israel) joined touchNEUROLOGY to discuss the main aims and focus of the recent CONy meeting, the unique debate presentation style, and the most exciting debates, topics and highlights […]

The surge in social media use seems to have become a sign of our times. Social media has ramified into not only our personal lives but, importantly, also our professional lives and will continue to do so in the future.1–4 At the same time, more neurologists resorted to online learning modalities, including podcasts and social media […]

Prof. Marc A. Russo President, International Neuromodulation Society Director of Hunter Pain Specialists, Hamilton Day Surgery Centre, Genesis Research Services, Broadmeadow, Australia Co-Director, Innervate Pain Management Program, Newcastle, Australia   The 15th World Congress of the International Neuromodulation Society (INS) was held on May 21st-26th in Barcelona, Spain. This year’s congress had the theme: “Neuromodulation: […]

Myoclonus is defined as a sudden, brief, lightning-like muscle contraction.1 It was first described by Friedreich in 1881 when he detailed sharp jerks involving the bulk of a full muscle without marked limb or joint movement and called it paramyoclonus multiplex.2 Myoclonus may be described as either positive myoclonus (increase in contraction activity) or negative myoclonus (inhibition […]

It has been nearly 160 years since Friedreich’s ataxia (FRDA) was clinically recognized and described1 and 25 years since the FXN gene was discovered.2 Despite this, there are still no approved therapies for FRDA. FRDA is an autosomal, recessively inherited, neurodegenerative disease that typically presents in childhood and results in progressive gait and limb ataxia, with the extraneural features […]