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Overview

Werner Poewe is affiliated with Innsbruck Medical University in Austria and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, particularly within neurology. Their research primarily focuses on Parkinson's disease and related neurological disorders, with a significant number of publications addressing mechanisms, treatments, and diagnostic criteria.

The scientist's recent notable publications include:

  • Challenges in the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease, 2021, The Lancet Neurology
  • The Movement Disorder Society Criteria for the Diagnosis of Multiple System Atrophy, 2022, Movement Disorders
  • Parkinson disease and the immune system - associations, mechanisms and therapeutics, 2020, Nature Reviews Neurology
  • A biological classification of Parkinson's disease: the SynNeurGe research diagnostic criteria, 2024, The Lancet Neurology
  • Trial of Prasinezumab in Early-Stage Parkinson's Disease, 2022, New England Journal of Medicine

Werner Poewe frequently collaborates with other researchers in the field. Their top co-authors include:

  • Klaus Seppi
  • Gregor K. Wenning
  • Florian Krismer
  • Olivier Rascol
  • Fabrizio Stocchi

Their work is published in several key venues relevant to neurology and movement disorders, such as:

  • Movement Disorders
  • Parkinsonism & Related Disorders
  • Movement Disorders Clinical Practice
  • Neurology
  • Journal of Parkinson's Disease

Werner Poewe's main fields of study include medicine, with a specialization in neurology. Subfields of their work cover cellular and molecular neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, cognitive neuroscience, and physiology.

The primary topics addressed in their research encompass:

  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Neurological disorders and treatments
  • Botulinum Toxin and Related Neurological Disorders
  • Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases
  • Neurological diseases and metabolism
  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
  • Nuclear Receptors and Signaling

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

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

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

  • Second consensus statement on the diagnosis of multiple system atrophy

    S. Gilman;G. K. Wenning;P. A. Low;D. J. Brooks

  • A Randomized Trial of Deep-Brain Stimulation for Parkinson's Disease

    Günther Deuschl;Carmen Schade-Brittinger;Paul Krack;Jens Volkmann

  • 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 diagnosis of progressive supranuclear palsy: The movement disorder society criteria

    Günter U Höglinger;Gesine Respondek;Maria Stamelou;Carolin Kurz

  • The Parkinson Progression Marker Initiative (PPMI)

    Kenneth Marek;Danna Jennings;Shirley Lasch;Andrew Siderowf

  • 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

  • Challenges in the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease

    Eduardo Tolosa;Alicia Garrido;Sonja W Scholz;Werner Poewe

  • 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

  • The diagnosis of Parkinson's disease

    Eduardo Tolosa;Gregor Wenning;Werner Poewe

  • 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

  • Pallidal Deep-Brain Stimulation in Primary Generalized or Segmental Dystonia

    Andreas Kupsch;Reiner Benecke;Jörg Müller;Thomas Trottenberg

  • A Mutation in VPS35, Encoding a Subunit of the Retromer Complex, Causes Late-Onset Parkinson Disease

    Alexander Zimprich;Anna Benet-Pagès;Walter Struhal;Elisabeth Graf

  • A double-blind, delayed-start trial of rasagiline in Parkinson's disease.

    C. Warren Olanow;Olivier Rascol;Robert Hauser;Paul D. Feigin

  • Slower progression of Parkinson's disease with ropinirole versus levodopa: The REAL-PET study.

    Alan L Whone;Ray L Watts;A Jon Stoessl;Margaret Davis

  • Early consolidation in human primary motor cortex

    Wolf Muellbacher;Ulf Ziemann;Ulf Ziemann;Joerg Wissel;Nguyet Dang

  • Non-motor symptoms in Parkinson's disease.

    W. Poewe

  • Prevalence and incidence of Parkinson's disease in Europe.

    Sonja von Campenhausen;Bernhard Bornschein;Regina Wick;Kai Bötzel

  • 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

  • Toll-like receptor 4 is required for α-synuclein dependent activation of microglia and astroglia

    Lisa Fellner;Regina Irschick;Kathrin Schanda;Markus Reindl

  • Pramipexole for the treatment of depressive symptoms in patients with Parkinson's disease: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

    Paolo Barone;Werner Poewe;Stefan Albrecht;Catherine Debieuvre

  • Practice Parameter: Evaluation and treatment of depression, psychosis, and dementia in Parkinson disease (an evidence-based review): Report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology

    D Aarsland;M Emre;A Lees;W Poewe

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

    Alfredo Berardelli;Gregor Wenning;Angelo Antonini;Daniela Berg

  • Body Iron Stores and the Risk of Carotid Atherosclerosis Prospective Results From the Bruneck Study

    Stefan Kiechl;Johann Willeit;Georg Egger;Werner Poewe

Frequent Co-Authors

Klaus Seppi
Klaus Seppi Innsbruck Medical University
Gregor K. Wenning
Gregor K. Wenning Innsbruck Medical University
Günther Deuschl
Günther Deuschl Kiel University
Birgit Högl
Birgit Högl Innsbruck Medical University
Wolfgang H. Oertel
Wolfgang H. Oertel Philipp University of Marburg
Birgit Frauscher
Birgit Frauscher Duke University
Olivier Rascol
Olivier Rascol Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Andrew J. Lees
Andrew J. Lees University College London
Eduardo Tolosa
Eduardo Tolosa University of Barcelona
Angelo Antonini
Angelo Antonini University of Padua

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