Contact for the Competence Network on Parkinson’s Disease
Prof. Dr. med. Peter Riederer
phone: ++49 931 2017720
fax: ++49 931 2017722
email: peter.riederer@mail.uni-wuerzburg.de
Role of the institution in the Competence Network on Parkinson’s disease
The Department of Neurology at the Universtity of Würzburg is one of the regional centers within the Competence Network on Parkinson’s disease. This department takes part in collecting basic patient data (Project 0), patient blood samples (Project 1) and in an examination of disase associated costs of MSA and PSP patients.
Description of the institution
The Department of Neurology (Director: Prof. Dr. K. Toyka) offers well established outpatient services for extrapyramidal movement disorders. It serves patients with Parkinson`s disease, other neurodegenerative diseases and dystonia from a large catchment area. The outpatient clinic for Botulinum toxin treatment is specialised in dystonia, spasticity and autonomic failures.
Our research areas include the early diagnosis and differential diagnosis of Parkinsonian syndromes with modern imaging procedures (functional MRI, PET, SPECT, MRI-spectroscopy, transcranial ultrasound), treatment of Parkinson`s disease, the assessment of congnitive and affective disorders and of the pathophysiology of dystonic movement disorders. Basic research on neurodegenerative diseases is done in cooperation with the Institute of Neurochemistry (Prof. Dr. Riederer) of the Department of Psychiatry Würzburg.
Further information
in the internet:
www.neurologie.uni-wuerzburg.de
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