Laura Xavier
@lauraxaviermd.bsky.social
Movement Disorders fellow @WashUNeurology | alumnus @UNCneurology | @SimonyanLab @harvardmed 👩💻| @pucrs MD 🩺| Brain Imaging | #NeuroEthics⚡️🧠🔬 Gaúcha 🇧🇷
It’s thanks to unrelenting advocates like George Ackerman that we’ve made so much progress in understanding and treating Parkinson’s disease (PD).
It was an honor to speak at @togetherforsharon.bsky.social about my research on dystonia, a debilitating and often overseen PD symptom.
It was an honor to speak at @togetherforsharon.bsky.social about my research on dystonia, a debilitating and often overseen PD symptom.
Q & A with Sharon's son, George. Episode 319 Special Guest: Dr Laura de Lima Xavier, Beyond Tremors: Shedding Light on Dystonia in Parkinson Disease.
Listen to The TogetherForSharon® Podcast on Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/4Jiq...
@lauraxaviermd.bsky.social
Listen to The TogetherForSharon® Podcast on Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/4Jiq...
@lauraxaviermd.bsky.social
December 10, 2025 at 1:31 AM
It’s thanks to unrelenting advocates like George Ackerman that we’ve made so much progress in understanding and treating Parkinson’s disease (PD).
It was an honor to speak at @togetherforsharon.bsky.social about my research on dystonia, a debilitating and often overseen PD symptom.
It was an honor to speak at @togetherforsharon.bsky.social about my research on dystonia, a debilitating and often overseen PD symptom.
Reposted by Laura Xavier
Mind-blowing case of the day. This guy w/ Parkinson's has a left leg amputation. Later he develops phantom dystonia in the region of the missing limb? Eid, Rodrigo, and Norris teach us about the phenomenon through a case they published in the Movement Disorders Clinical Practice Journal.
February 28, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Mind-blowing case of the day. This guy w/ Parkinson's has a left leg amputation. Later he develops phantom dystonia in the region of the missing limb? Eid, Rodrigo, and Norris teach us about the phenomenon through a case they published in the Movement Disorders Clinical Practice Journal.
Reposted by Laura Xavier
New paper! Ethical considerations for the use of brain-computer interfaces for cognitive enhancement. Co-authored with Emma Gordon, and out now in @plos.bsky.social Biology. We should think for ourselves, while we still can journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
November 12, 2024 at 3:40 PM
New paper! Ethical considerations for the use of brain-computer interfaces for cognitive enhancement. Co-authored with Emma Gordon, and out now in @plos.bsky.social Biology. We should think for ourselves, while we still can journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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The randomized trial results are in for the GLP-1 drug Exenatide for Parkinson's disease. Spoiler: NO symptomatic or disease modifying effect. Tom Foltynie, David Standaert and I interviewed in the NY Times by Gina Kolata. “This is a sobering moment."
February 5, 2025 at 12:44 AM
The randomized trial results are in for the GLP-1 drug Exenatide for Parkinson's disease. Spoiler: NO symptomatic or disease modifying effect. Tom Foltynie, David Standaert and I interviewed in the NY Times by Gina Kolata. “This is a sobering moment."
Reposted by Laura Xavier
🚨Interested in Dystonia?🚨
@braincircuits.bsky.social
GPi DBS for dystonia is effective.
More recently, STN DBS has been investigated, as an alternative.
In what enfolded like a stunning thriller to me, Konstantin Butenko tells a tale of two networks…
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
@braincircuits.bsky.social
GPi DBS for dystonia is effective.
More recently, STN DBS has been investigated, as an alternative.
In what enfolded like a stunning thriller to me, Konstantin Butenko tells a tale of two networks…
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
January 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
🚨Interested in Dystonia?🚨
@braincircuits.bsky.social
GPi DBS for dystonia is effective.
More recently, STN DBS has been investigated, as an alternative.
In what enfolded like a stunning thriller to me, Konstantin Butenko tells a tale of two networks…
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
@braincircuits.bsky.social
GPi DBS for dystonia is effective.
More recently, STN DBS has been investigated, as an alternative.
In what enfolded like a stunning thriller to me, Konstantin Butenko tells a tale of two networks…
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Reposted by Laura Xavier
The brain’s action-mode is created by a dedicated action-mode network (AMN) rdcu.be/d5odm. In the brain’s mode continuum, AMN sits opposite DMN’s default-mode, as yin-yang. AMN might be key in pain, apathy, Parkinson’s. New @natrevneurosci.bsky.social w/ Marc Raichle & @gordonneuro.bsky.social 🧵 ⬇️
January 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The brain’s action-mode is created by a dedicated action-mode network (AMN) rdcu.be/d5odm. In the brain’s mode continuum, AMN sits opposite DMN’s default-mode, as yin-yang. AMN might be key in pain, apathy, Parkinson’s. New @natrevneurosci.bsky.social w/ Marc Raichle & @gordonneuro.bsky.social 🧵 ⬇️
Reposted by Laura Xavier
Updated DBS starter pack including numerous new folks – @raynorproject.bsky.social @parkinsondotorg.bsky.social welcome to @bsky.app!
go.bsky.app/B9A9Cho
go.bsky.app/B9A9Cho
November 21, 2024 at 8:41 PM
Updated DBS starter pack including numerous new folks – @raynorproject.bsky.social @parkinsondotorg.bsky.social welcome to @bsky.app!
go.bsky.app/B9A9Cho
go.bsky.app/B9A9Cho