Dr. Thomas Dwight Bird MD
Neurologist | Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine & OMM
1660 S Columbian Way Grecc182 Seattle WA, 98108About
Dr. Bird is Chief of the Division of Neurogenetics. He has a long standing interest in hereditary diseases of the nervous system. These diseases include Familial Alzheimer’s Disease, Frontotemporal Dementia, ...
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Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Familial essential ("benign") chorea.
- An untranslated CTG expansion causes a novel form of spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA8)
- Outrageous fortune: the risk of suicide in genetic testing for Huntington disease.
- Missense and silent tau gene mutations cause frontotemporal dementia with parkinsonism-chromosome 17 type, by affecting multiple alternative RNA splicing regulatory elements.
- "Pure" hereditary spastic paraplegias: the story becomes complicated.
- Historical perspective of defining Charcot-Marie-Tooth type 1B.
- The number of trait loci in late-onset Alzheimer disease.
- Pro-apoptotic effects of tau mutations in chromosome 17 frontotemporal dementia and parkinsonism.
- Sporadic cases of possible genetic diseases: to test or not to test?
- Neuropathological heterogeneity in Alzheimer's disease: a study of 80 cases using principal components analysis.
- Familial Alzheimer's disease: site of mutation influences clinical phenotype.
- Familial aggregation of psychotic symptoms in Huntington's disease.
- Brain expression of presenilins in sporadic and early-onset, familial Alzheimer's disease.
- Frontotemporal dementia: genotypes, phenotypes and more problems to be solved.
- The case of the missing tau, or, why didn't the mRNA bark?
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- UW - Dept. of Medicine
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