Movement Disorder Podcast

In this podcast, Dr. Danish Bhatti is explaining difference between UPDRS improvement and ON TIME improvement.

In this podcast, Dr. Danish Bhatti is talking about Dystonic tremor hiding in plain sight.

In this podcast, Dr. Danish Bhatti is talking about difference between Stereotype and mannerism.

In this podcast, Dr. Danish Bhatti is explaining difference between Vocal tics and Vocal akathisias.

In this podcast, Dr. Danish Bhatti is explaining True Resting Tremor.

In this podcast, Dr. Danish Bhatti is explaining Vascular movement disorders.

In this podcast, Dr. Danish Bhatti is explaining the difference between start hesitation and gait freezing.

In this podcast, Dr. Danish Bhatti is talking about Cerebral Palsy, a question asked by his student in Mini-fellowship in MD course.

Welcome, everyone, to our new podcast on movement disorders. These podcast will be a series of mini lectures, which are 3-7 minute long audio clips discussing a very particular topic or a very particular question with a practical, useful, relevant detail or information. So it could be a discussion on something like how do you examine a patient’s gait? How do you diagnose someone with cerebral palsy? or what is the difference between spasticity and rigidity? What is the difference between freezing of gait and initiation failure of gait or hesitation of gait, so on and so forth. These questions are related to movement disorders, what are movement disorders. They are a group of neurological disorders that lead to abnormalities of movements in a patient involuntary movement so there could be excessive movement, patient is moving too much, getting pulling, tightness, jerking, twitching, shaking, are not able to move very well. So too slow, falling, imbalanced and so on and so forth. This is a component of neurological disorders or a sub specialty or a field within neurological disorders or neurology, which particular deals with these kind of abnormal diseases. So to give you some examples, it will be something […]

John Bertoni: I don’t know if I’m going to be duplicating myself but did I ever tell you the story? I didn’t see it marked that we had done it before, a podcast about doing Pneumoencephalograms. Danish Bhatti: No, tell me about it. John Bertoni: My fourth year of medical school at University of Michigan. We had really excellent neuro radiologists and I wanted to spend time with them. I think I may have been with them for somewhere between a month or two somewhere in that time and I did neuropathology that year. I did a 10 week experience in Newcastle upon Tyne in England with John Walton and Peter Hudson and actually a guy who became a friend of mine from Mayo Clinic and what I really liked was the time I spent in radiology. At the same time there was a neurosurgery resident. I won’t give you his name because this wasn’t really such a well done day that we had. We wer e doing Pneumo-Encephalograms. We did not have MRI scans at that time. And I think CAT scans were just coming in to play. So when we wanted to evaluate people with hydrocephalus, we would […]