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Jaime Kulisevsky is affiliated with the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain and has an extensive research portfolio focusing primarily on neurology and neuroscience.

Their main fields of study include Medicine and Neuroscience, with a specific emphasis on subfields such as Neurology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

Research topics covered by Jaime Kulisevsky include:

  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Neurological disorders and treatments
  • Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases
  • Botulinum Toxin and Related Neurological Disorders
  • Restless Legs Syndrome Research
  • Mitochondrial Function and Pathology
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research

Recent publications highlight their involvement in Parkinson's disease and neurological assessment. Notable works include:

  • "Trial of Deferiprone in Parkinson's Disease" (2022), published in New England Journal of Medicine
  • "Diagnostic criteria for mild cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease: Movement Disorder Society Task Force guidelines" (2020), published by UNC Libraries
  • "The reliability of a deep learning model in clinical out-of-distribution MRI data: A multicohort study" (2020), published in Medical Image Analysis
  • "Serum neurofilament light chain levels reflect cortical neurodegeneration in de novo Parkinson's disease" (2020), published in Parkinsonism & Related Disorders
  • "Understanding visual hallucinations: A new synthesis" (2023), published in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

Several frequent co-authors collaborate on research with Jaime Kulisevsky, including Javier Pagonabarraga, Saül Martínez-Horta, Andrea Horta-Barba, Jesús Pérez-Pérez, and Diego Santos-García.

The scholar's research is frequently published in venues such as Parkinsonism & Related Disorders, Journal of Neurology, Movement Disorders Clinical Practice, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Neurology Perspectives.

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

  • Diagnostic Criteria for Mild Cognitive Impairment in Parkinson’s Disease: Movement Disorder Society Task Force Guidelines

    Irene Litvan;Jennifer G. Goldman;Alexander I. Tröster;Ben A. Schmand

  • Identification of novel risk loci, causal insights, and heritable risk for Parkinson's disease: a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies

    Mike A Nalls;Cornelis Blauwendraat;Costanza L Vallerga;Karl Heilbron

  • 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

  • Overdependence on degraded gist memory in Alzheimer's disease.

    David A. Gallo;Kameron R. Shahid;Meredith A. Olson;Todd M. Solomon

  • Bilateral deep brain stimulation in Parkinson's disease: a multicentre study with 4 years follow-up

    M C Rodriguez-Oroz;J A Obeso;A E Lang;J L Houeto

  • Mild cognitive impairment in Parkinson disease: a multicenter pooled analysis.

    D. Aarsland;K. Bronnick;C. Williams-Gray;D. Weintraub

  • MDS Task Force on Mild Cognitive Impairment in Parkinson’s disease: Critical Review of PD-MCI

    Irene Litvan;Dag Aarsland;Charles H. Adler;Jennifer G. Goldman

  • EFNS/MDS‐ES recommendations for the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease

    Alfredo Berardelli;Gregor Wenning;Angelo Antonini;Daniela Berg

  • Apathy in Parkinson's disease: clinical features, neural substrates, diagnosis, and treatment

    Javier Pagonabarraga;Jaime Kulisevsky;Antonio P Strafella;Antonio P Strafella;Paul Krack;Paul Krack

  • Long-term results of a multicenter study on subthalamic and pallidal stimulation in Parkinson's disease.

    Elena Moro;Andres M. Lozano;Pierre Pollak;Yves Agid

  • Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for the treatment of depression. Systematic review and meta-analysis.

    José Luis R. Martin;Manuel J. Barbanoj;Thomas E. Schlaepfer;Elinor Thompson

  • Parkinson's disease-cognitive rating scale: a new cognitive scale specific for Parkinson's disease.

    Javier Pagonabarraga;Jaime Kulisevsky;Gisela Llebaria;Carmen García-Sánchez

  • Rey verbal learning test is a useful tool for differential diagnosis in the preclinical phase of Alzheimer's disease: comparison with mild cognitive impairment and normal aging.

    Armando Estévez-González;Armando Estévez-González;Jaime Kulisevsky;Anunciación Boltes;Pilar Otermín

  • Cognitive impairment and dementia in Parkinson's disease.

    Javier Pagonabarraga;Jaime Kulisevsky;Jaime Kulisevsky

  • Mania following deep brain stimulation for Parkinson’s disease

    J. Kulisevsky;M. L. Berthier;A. Gironell;B. Pascual-Sedano

  • Penetrance of FMR1 premutation associated pathologies in fragile X syndrome families.

    Laia Rodriguez-Revenga;Irene Madrigal;Javier Pagonabarraga;Mar Xunclà

  • Prevalence and correlates of neuropsychiatric symptoms in Parkinson's disease without dementia

    Jaime Kulisevsky;Javier Pagonabarraga;Berta Pascual‐Sedano;Carmen García‐Sánchez

  • Parkinson's disease is overdiagnosed clinically at baseline in diagnostically uncertain cases: a 3-year European multicenter study with repeat [123I]FP-CIT SPECT.

    Vicky L. Marshall;Cornelia B. Reininger;Moritz Marquardt;Jim Patterson

  • Role of dopamine in learning and memory: implications for the treatment of cognitive dysfunction in patients with Parkinson's disease.

    Jaime Kulisevsky

  • Obsessive-compulsive disorder associated with brain lesions Clinical phenomenology, cognitive function, and anatomic correlates

    Marcelo L. Berthier;Jaime Kulisevsky;Alex Gironell;Jose A. Heras

  • A randomized placebo-controlled comparative trial of gabapentin and propranolol in essential tremor

    Alexandre Gironell;Jaime Kulisevsky;Manel Barbanoj;Dolores López-Villegas

  • Transcranial magnetic stimulation for treating depression

    José Luis Rodriguez‐Martin;José Manuel Barbanoj;TE Schlaepfer;Susana Sc Clos

  • Cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease: tools for diagnosis and assessment.

    Jaime Kulisevsky;Javier Pagonabarraga

  • Chronic effects of dopaminergic replacement on cognitive function in Parkinson's disease: a two-year follow-up study of previously untreated patients.

    Jaime Kulisevsky;Carmen García‐Sánchez;Marcelo L. Berthier;Manel Barbanoj

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexandre Gironell
Alexandre Gironell Creu Blanca Clinic
Marcelo L. Berthier
Marcelo L. Berthier University of Malaga
Jesús Pujol
Jesús Pujol Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Werner Poewe
Werner Poewe Innsbruck Medical University
Dag Aarsland
Dag Aarsland King's College London
Paul Krack
Paul Krack University of Bern
Joan Deus
Joan Deus Autonomous University of Barcelona
Olaf Blanke
Olaf Blanke École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Sue Leurgans
Sue Leurgans Rush University Medical Center
Pau Pastor
Pau Pastor University of Navarra

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