Dr. Roy Nissim Alcalay MD
Neurologist | Neurology
Massachusetts General Hospital 55 Fruit Street Boston MA, 02114About
Dr. Alcalay is a clinician and researcher whose practice and research focus on Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders, including tremor, dystonia, Tourette syndrome, myoclonus, ataxia and chorea. ...
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Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Intranasal administration of NAP, a neuroprotective peptide, decreases anxiety-like behavior in aging mice in the elevated plus maze.
- A surprising cause of sinusitis.
- MRI showing white matter lesions and multiple lobar microbleeds in a patient with reversible encephalopathy.
- Transient exacerbation of ataxia with smoking: a prevalence survey.
- Neuralgic amyotrophy following botulinum toxin injection.
- Prevalence of essential tremor in Araihazar, Bangladesh: a population-based study.
- Tremor severity and age: a cross-sectional, population-based study of 2,524 young and midlife normal adults.
- Clinical and pathological characteristics of LRRK2 G2019S patients with PD.
- The neuropathology of genetic Parkinson's disease.
- Glucocerebrosidase mutations in a Serbian Parkinson's disease population.
- Age-specific Parkinson disease risk in GBA mutation carriers: information for genetic counseling.
- Prevalence and features of unreported dystonia in a family study of "pure" essential tremor.
- Phenotype in patients with Gaucher disease and Parkinson disease.
- Somatic mitochondrial DNA mutations and parkinsonism.
- Knowledge of and interest in genetic results among Parkinson disease patients and caregivers.
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