WEBINAR SERIES—Compensatory Mechanisms in Parkinson’s Disease

January 17, 2024
11 a.m. EST

Content Partner: FENS

This webinar reviews compensatory mechanisms, including cerebral plasticity and behavioral adaptation, in people with Parkinson’s disease.

Key topics include:

• The clinical phenotype of Parkinson’s disease is shaped not just by neurodegeneration in the basal ganglia, but also by adaptive neuroplasticity taking place in other intact brain areas.
• People living with Parkinson’s disease show a remarkable ability to overcome motor and nonmotor deficits by developing a wide range of compensatory strategies.
• Recognizing these different types of compensatory strategies opens exciting new avenues for innovative therapies, both as symptomatic treatment for people with Parkinson’s disease, and perhaps also as a disease-modifying strategy.

Speaker

Bastiaan Bloem, MD
Professor, Neurology, Radboud University Medical Centre

Bastiaan Bloem, MD, PhD, is a neurologist and professor at the Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen in the Netherlands. He received his medical degree with honors and his PhD at Leiden University Medical Centre. Bloem trained as a neurologist and as a specialist in movement disorders during fellowships at The Parkinson’s Institute, in Sunnyvale, California, and the Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, in London. In 2002, Bloem founded the Radboudumc Center of Expertise for Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders and, together with Marten Munneke, PhD, developed ParkinsonNet, an innovative care concept for Parkinson’s patients consisting of 70 professional regional networks.