Dr. Michael Scott Okun MD
Neurologist | Neurology
1600 Sw Archer Rd Box 100371 Gainesville FL, 32610About
Michael S. Okun, MD, is currently Administrative Director and Co-director of the Center for Movement Disorders and Neurorestoration which is part of the Center for Translational Research in Neurodegen ...
Education and Training
University of Florida College of Medicine 1996
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN
UrologyAmerican Board of UrologyABU
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Understanding gustatory sweating. What have we learned from Lucja Frey and her predecessors?
- Origins of the sensory examination in neurology.
- Neurological eponyms--who gets the credit? Essay review.
- Huntington's disease: what we learned from the original essay.
- Visual-spatial ability in Parkinson's disease.
- Rationale for current therapies in Parkinson's disease.
- Babinski's clinical differentiation of organic paralysis from hysterical paralysis: effect on US neurology.
- Americo Negrette (1924 to 2003): diagnosing Huntington disease in Venezuela.
- Magnetic resonance imaging of the posterior columns in vitamin B12 deficiency.
- Alien limb syndrome and moya-moya disease.
- Rebound psychosis: effect of discontinuation of antipsychotics in Parkinson's disease.
- Aphasia and thalamotomy: important issues.
- Staged deep brain stimulation for refractory craniofacial dystonia with blepharospasm: case report and physiology.
- Ventralis intermedius plus ventralis oralis anterior and posterior deep brain stimulation for posttraumatic Holmes tremor: two leads may be better than one: technical note.
- The human prion gene M129V polymorphism is not associated with idiopathic Parkinson's disease in three distinct populations.
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Awards
- American Academy of Neurology Lawrence McHenry Award
Treatments
- Deep Brain Stimulation (dbs), Dystonia, Obsessive-compulsive Disorder (ocd) And More
- Parkinson's Disease
- Tremors
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