Cautionary notes on diagnosing functional neurologic disorder as a neurologist-in-training
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- Received September 6, 2019
- Accepted October 17, 2019
- First Published December 4, 2019.
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Author Disclosures
- David L. Perez, MD, MMSc,
- Ann Hunt, DO,
- Nutan Sharma, MD, PhD,
- Alice Flaherty, MD, PhD,
- David Caplan, MD, PhD and
- Jeremy D. Schmahmann, MD
- David L. Perez, MD, MMSc,
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National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), 1K23MH111983- 01A1, PI, 9/2017-8/2022 Please note: the above funding did not support this manuscript
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Sidney R. Baer Jr. Foundation Please note: the above funding did not support this manuscript
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- Ann Hunt, DO,
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- Nutan Sharma, MD, PhD,
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Brain and Behavior, Associate Editor, 2016 - 2018 Brain and Behavior, Editor in Chief, 2019
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Employed full-time by the Massachusetts General Hospital Physicians Organization.
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NIH , P01 NS087997, PI of clinical core 2015-present
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- Alice Flaherty, MD, PhD,
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The Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of Neurology, 2nd edition, 2007
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- David Caplan, MD, PhD and
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Language and Cognitive Processes, 2008, 2009
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Behavioral Neurology CME course on Dementia, Co-organizer and speaker, 2008, 2009
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I have acted as an expert witness in several legal cases involving mild closed head injury. This is unrelated to the ms
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CAPLAN, D. AActive: P50DC012283 Subcontract from Northwestern 04/01/13-03/31/18 3.00 Calendar Months. NIH $177,644 The Neurobiology of recovery of naming impairments Goals: To identify BOLD signal correlates of recovery and effects of treatment of language disorders after stroke and the neural, cognitive, and biological determinants of these effects Role: PI 5R01DC011032-03 (Caplan) 06/01/10-05/31/13 2.40 Cal months NIH/NIDCD $143,990 Spatiotemporal Neuroimaging of Situated Sentence Comprehension This grant will use MEG to study the neural basis of aspects of sentence comprehension Role: PI R305G050083 (PI: Waters, BU) 04/01/10Â3/31/14 3.00 cal. months IES/DoE $400,000 Assessment of Comprehension Skills in Older Struggling Readers The major goal of this is the development an assessment battery for skills required for efficient reading for use in middle and high school. Role: Investigator Completed: 4R33DC010461-03 (Kiran, BU) 09/01/10-08/31/14 3.20 Cal. Months NIH-NIDCD $78,204 Theoretically-Based Treatment of Syntactic Comprehension Deficits in Aphasia The major goals of this project are the creation of sentences and pictures to be used in assessing and training patients, anc of paragraphs that test patients acquisition of the skills that have been taught.) Role: PI of MGH subcontract 5R01DC003108-14 (Gow) 09/18/09Â08/31/14 1.80 Cal months NIH-NIDCD $214,625 Neural Dynamics of Spoken Word Recognition The major goals of this project are to determine the neural dynamics of the regions that underlie categorical, phonotactic and semantic effects on speech perception, and the functional integration these regions in recovery from aphasia. Role: Co-Investigator
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- Jeremy D. Schmahmann, MD
Cadent Therapeutics
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The Cerebellum, Editorial Board,1999 - Cerebellum and Ataxias
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1. Schmahmann JD. (Editor). The Cerebellum and Cognition. International Review of Neurobiology. Volume 47. San Diego, Academic Press. 1997. 2. Schmahmann JD, Doyon J, Toga A, Petrides M, Evans A. MRI Atlas of the Human Cerebellum. San Diego, Academic Press. 2000. http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=428486 3. Schmahmann JD, Pandya DN. Fiber Pathways of the Brain. New York, Oxford University Press. 2006. http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=431410 4. Boltshauser E, Schmahmann JD. (Editors). Cerebellar Disorders in Children. Clinics in Developmental Medicine No. 191 Â 192. London, MacKeith Press. 2012. 5. Manto M, Gruol D, Schmahmann JD, Koibuchi N, Rossi F. (Editors). Handbook of the Cerebellum and Cerebellar Disorders. New York, Springer. 2012. 6. Manto M, Gruol D, Schmahmann JD, Koibuchi N, Rossi F. (Editors). Essentials of the Handbook of the Cerebellum and Cerebellar Disorders. New York, Springer. 2016.
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(1) Cadent Therapeutics (2) Triplet Therapeutics (3) Celgene
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(1) Site PI for Biohaven clinical Trials in ataxia and multiple system atrophy
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(1) Biohaven Pharma support of clinical trials
(1) Department of Defense, 2016-20, co-PI
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(1) National Ataxia Foundation, 2019, PI
Ataxion / Cadent Therapeutics
(1) Brief Ataxia Rating Scale. The General Hospital Corporation (2) Cerebellar Cognitive Affective / Schmahmann syndrome Scale. The General Hospital Corporation (3) Patient Reported Outcome Measure for Ataxia
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- Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry (DLP), Functional Neurology Research Group, Cognitive Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry Units, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School; Department of Neurology (AH, NS, AF), Movement Disorders Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School; Department of Neurology (DC), Cognitive Behavioral Neurology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School; and Department of Neurology (JDS), Ataxia Unit, Cognitive Behavioral Neurology Unit, Laboratory for Neuroanatomy and Cerebellar Neurobiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston.
- Correspondence
Dr. Perez dlperez{at}partners.org
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