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Virtual: Brain meeting: Dr Rimona Weil
09 July 2021, 3:15 pm–4:15 pm
Using Vision to understand dementia in Parkinson’s disease
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Justyna Ekert and Elisa van der Plas and Gabrielle Sheehan
Location
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N/A via ZoomN/A via ZoomN/A via ZoomN/A via ZoomUnited Kingdom
Brain meeting
Dementia is common in Parkinson’s disease affecting around half of all patients within 10 years of diagnosis, but with variation in timing and severity.
Currently we lack robust predictors for which patients will develop dementia in Parkinson’s disease, and conventional imaging is poorly sensitive to detect early changes.
I will present data showing that visual changes can be useful predictors of cognitive decline in Parkinson’s disease and how neuroimaging, in particular using fixel based analysis of diffusion weighted imaging and quantitative susceptibility mapping can provide new insights into neurodegenerative changes in Parkinson’s disease.
About the Speaker
Dr Rimona Weil
at National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, University College London Hospital