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Overview

Christopher G. Goetz is affiliated with Rush University Medical Center in the United States. Their research predominantly falls within the field of Medicine, with a substantial focus on Neurology. Additional areas of study include Psychiatry and Mental Health, Cognitive Neuroscience, Rehabilitation, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

The scientist's work covers a range of main topics, primarily centered on Parkinson's Disease mechanisms and treatments. Other research interests include neurological disorders and treatments, botulinum toxin and related neurological disorders, cerebral palsy and movement disorders, stroke rehabilitation and recovery, autism spectrum disorder research, and genetic neurodegenerative diseases.

Christopher G. Goetz has contributed multiple publications to several significant venues, demonstrating a consistent presence in key journals. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Movement Disorders Clinical Practice
  • Movement Disorders
  • Neurology
  • Parkinsonism & Related Disorders
  • Gastroenterology

The scientist has collaborated extensively with several coauthors, with notable frequent collaborators such as Glenn T. Stebbins, Sheng Luo, Ali Keshavarzian, Tiago Mestre, and Michelle Hyczy de Siqueira Tosin.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Christopher G. Goetz include:

  • Effect of Urate-Elevating Inosine on Early Parkinson Disease Progression, 2021, JAMA
  • TikTok Tics: A Pandemic Within a Pandemic, 2021, Movement Disorders Clinical Practice
  • An open label, non-randomized study assessing a prebiotic fiber intervention in a small cohort of Parkinson's disease participants, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Parkinson Disease and Subthalamic Nucleus Deep Brain Stimulation: Cognitive Effects in GBA Mutation Carriers, 2022, Annals of Neurology
  • A Statement of the MDS on Biological Definition, Staging, and Classification of Parkinson's Disease, 2023, Movement Disorders

Best Publications

  • Movement Disorder Society-sponsored revision of the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (MDS-UPDRS): scale presentation and clinimetric testing results.

    Christopher G. Goetz;Barbara C. Tilley;Stephanie R. Shaftman;Glenn T. Stebbins

  • MDS clinical diagnostic criteria for Parkinson's disease

    Ronald B. Postuma;Daniela Berg;Matthew Stern;Werner Poewe

  • Diagnosis and management of dementia with Lewy bodies: Third report of the DLB Consortium

    I. G. McKeith;I. G. McKeith;D. W. Dickson;J. Lowe;M. Emre

  • Clinical diagnostic criteria for dementia associated with Parkinson's disease.

    Murat Emre;Dag Aarsland;Dag Aarsland;Richard Brown;David J. Burn

  • Movement Disorder Society Task Force report on the Hoehn and Yahr staging scale: status and recommendations.

    Christopher G. Goetz;Werner Poewe;Olivier Rascol;Cristina Sampaio

  • Clinical research criteria for the diagnosis of progressive supranuclear palsy (Steele-Richardson-Olszewski syndrome) Report of the NINDS-SPSP International Workshop*

    I. Litvan;Y. Agid;D. Calne;G. Campbell

  • A double-blind controlled trial of bilateral fetal nigral transplantation in Parkinson's disease†

    C. Warren Olanow;Christopher G. Goetz;Jeffrey H. Kordower;A. Jon Stoessl

  • Consensus statement on the definition of orthostatic hypotension, pure autonomic failure, and multiple system atrophy

    I. J. Schatz;R. Bannister;R. L. Freeman;C. G. Goetz

  • Movement Disorder Society-sponsored revision of the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (MDS-UPDRS): Process, format, and clinimetric testing plan.

    Christopher G. Goetz;Stanley Fahn;Pablo Martinez-Martin;Werner Poewe

  • Variable expression of Parkinson's disease A base‐line analysis of the DAT ATOP cohort

    Joseph Jankovic;Michael P McDermott;Jonathan T Carter;Susan A Gauthier

  • MDS research criteria for prodromal Parkinson's disease

    Daniela Berg;Ronald B. Postuma;Charles H. Adler;Bastiaan R. Bloem

  • Diagnostic procedures for Parkinson's disease dementia: Recommendations from the movement disorder society task force

    Bruno Dubois;David Burn;Christopher Goetz;Dag Aarsland;Dag Aarsland

  • Core assessment program for intracerebral transplantations (CAPIT).

    J. William Langston;Hakan Widner;Christopher G. Goetz;David Brooks

  • The Movement Disorder Society Evidence-Based Medicine Review Update: Treatments for the non-motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease

    Klaus Seppi;Daniel Weintraub;Miguel Coelho;Santiago Perez-Lloret

  • SIC Task Force appraisal of clinical diagnostic criteria for parkinsonian disorders

    Irene Litvan;Kailash P. Bhatia;David J. Burn;Christopher G. Goetz

  • Missing pieces in the Parkinson's disease puzzle.

    Jose A Obeso;Maria C Rodriguez-Oroz;Christopher G Goetz;Concepcion Marin;Concepcion Marin

  • Prevalence of Parkinsonian Signs and Associated Mortality in a Community Population of Older People

    David A. Bennett;Laurel A. Beckett;Anne M. Murray;Kathleen M. Shannon

  • How to identify tremor dominant and postural instability/gait difficulty groups with the movement disorder society unified Parkinson's disease rating scale: Comparison with the unified Parkinson's disease rating scale

    Glenn T. Stebbins;Christopher G. Goetz;David J. Burn;Joseph Jankovic

  • Past, present, and future of Parkinson's disease: A special essay on the 200th Anniversary of the Shaking Palsy

    J.A. Obeso;M. Stamelou;M. Stamelou;C.G. Goetz;W. Poewe

  • Depression Rating Scales in Parkinson’s Disease: Critique and Recommendations

    Anette Schrag;Paolo Barone;Richard G. Brown;Albert F.G. Leentjens

Frequent Co-Authors

Glenn T. Stebbins
Glenn T. Stebbins Rush University Medical Center
Sue Leurgans
Sue Leurgans Rush University Medical Center
Caroline M. Tanner
Caroline M. Tanner University of California, San Francisco
Joseph Jankovic
Joseph Jankovic Baylor College of Medicine
Pablo Martinez-Martin
Pablo Martinez-Martin Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Nico J. Diederich
Nico J. Diederich Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg
Werner Poewe
Werner Poewe Innsbruck Medical University
Paul M. Carvey
Paul M. Carvey Rush University Medical Center
Barbara C. Tilley
Barbara C. Tilley The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Anthony E. Lang
Anthony E. Lang University of Toronto

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