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Elan D. Louis is affiliated with The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neurological disorders and treatments, with a particular emphasis on Parkinson's disease mechanisms and treatments, genetic neurodegenerative diseases, glycogen storage diseases and myoclonus, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, neuroscience and neural engineering, and genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders.

Their extensive expertise spans the main fields of medicine and neuroscience, with a specific concentration on neurology and cellular and molecular neuroscience. Other subfields include rheumatology, psychiatry and mental health, and cognitive neuroscience.

Elan D. Louis has published numerous papers on topics related to essential tremor and cerebellar degeneration. Recent noteworthy publications include:

  • How Common is Essential Tremor? Update on the Worldwide Prevalence of Essential Tremor (2021) in Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements
  • Essential tremor pathology: neurodegeneration and reorganization of neuronal connections (2020) in Nature Reviews Neurology
  • Cerebellar oscillations driven by synaptic pruning deficits of cerebellar climbing fibers contribute to tremor pathophysiology (2020) in Science Translational Medicine
  • Essential tremor: the most common form of cerebellar degeneration? (2020) in Cerebellum & Ataxias
  • Histopathology of the cerebellar cortex in essential tremor and other neurodegenerative motor disorders: comparative analysis of 320 brains (2023) in Acta Neuropathologica

The scientist frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements
  • Neurology
  • Parkinsonism & Related Disorders
  • Frontiers in Neurology
  • The Cerebellum

Collaborations have been established with several coauthors, including Stephanie Cosentino, Phyllis L. Faust, Diane S. Berry, Nora Hernández, and Sheng-Han Kuo, reflecting a consistent and broad research network.

Best Publications

  • Unified huntington’s disease rating scale: Reliability and consistency

    Karl Kieburtz;John B. Penney;Peter Corno;Neal Ranen

  • Consensus Statement on the classification of tremors. from the task force on tremor of the International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society

    Kailash P Bhatia;Peter Bain;Nin Bajaj;Rodger J Elble

  • How common is the most common adult movement disorder? Update on the worldwide prevalence of essential tremor.

    Elan D. Louis;Joaquim J. Ferreira

  • Neuropathological changes in essential tremor: 33 cases compared with 21 controls

    Elan D. Louis;Phyllis L. Faust;Jean Paul G. Vonsattel;Lawrence S. Honig

  • How common is the most common adult movement disorder? Estimates of the prevalence of essential tremor throughout the world

    Elan D. Louis;Ruth Ottman;W. Allen Hauser

  • CGG Repeat-Associated Translation Mediates Neurodegeneration in Fragile X Tremor Ataxia Syndrome

    Peter K. Todd;Seok Yoon Oh;Amy Krans;Fang He

  • Merritt's Neurology

    Elan D. Louis;Stephan A. Mayer;Lewis P. Rowland.

  • Practice parameter: therapies for essential tremor: report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology.

    T. A. Zesiewicz;T. A. Zesiewicz;R. Elble;E. D. Louis;R. A. Hauser

  • Memory and executive function impairment predict dementia in Parkinson's disease.

    Gilberto Levy;Diane M. Jacobs;Ming Xin Tang;Lucien J. Côté

  • Evidence-based guideline update: Treatment of essential tremor Report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology

    Theresa A. Zesiewicz;Rodger J. Elble;E. D. Louis;Gary S. Gronseth

  • Essential tremor: emerging views of a common disorder.

    Julián Benito-León;Elan D Louis

  • Rest Tremor in Patients With Essential Tremor: Prevalence, Clinical Correlates, and Electrophysiologic Characteristics

    Oren Cohen;Seth Pullman;Eva Jurewicz;Dryden Watner

  • Consensus Paper: Revisiting the Symptoms and Signs of Cerebellar Syndrome

    Florian Bodranghien;Amy Bastian;Carlo Casali;Mark Hallett

  • Common misdiagnosis of a common neurological disorder: how are we misdiagnosing essential tremor?

    Samay Jain;Steven E. Lo;Elan D. Louis

  • Olfactory deficits predict cognitive decline and Alzheimer dementia in an urban community

    D.P. Devanand;Seonjoo Lee;Jennifer Manly;Howard Andrews

  • Diagnostic guidelines in central nervous system Whipple's disease

    E. D. Louis;T. Lynch;P. Kaufmann;S. Fahn

  • Risk of Parkinson's disease among first-degree relatives: A community-based study

    K. Marder;M.-X. Tang;H. Mejia;B. Alfaro

  • Correlates of functional disability in essential tremor.

    Elan D. Louis;Livia Barnes;Steven M. Albert;Lucien Cote

  • The Washington Heights-Inwood Genetic Study of Essential Tremor: methodologic issues in essential-tremor research.

    Louis Ed;Ottman R;Ford B;Pullman S

  • The association of incident dementia with mortality in PD

    G. Levy;M. X. Tang;E. D. Louis;L. J. Côté

  • Clinical practice. Essential tremor.

    Louis Ed

  • Essential tremor

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Frequent Co-Authors

Ruth Ottman
Ruth Ottman Columbia University
Jean Paul Vonsattel
Jean Paul Vonsattel Columbia University
Karen Marder
Karen Marder Columbia University
Stanley Fahn
Stanley Fahn Columbia University
Steven J. Frucht
Steven J. Frucht New York University
Howard Andrews
Howard Andrews Columbia University
Sheng-Han Kuo
Sheng-Han Kuo Columbia University Medical Center
Wei Zheng
Wei Zheng Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Richard Mayeux
Richard Mayeux Columbia University
Joseph H. Friedman
Joseph H. Friedman Brown University

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