Michael D. Geschwind
University of California, San Francisco, USA
Biography
Michael D Geschwind is a Professor of Neurology at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center who specializes in the assessment, treatment and management of rapidly progressive dementias, including prion diseases such as Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease (JCD) and autoimmune encephalopathies, and other cognitive/movement disorder syndromes. He helped to establish a program for the assessment of rapidly progressive dementias at UCSF Medical Center, the first of its kind in the country. He helped to run the first US treatment trial for sporadic disease, at UCSF. He has also helped to establish and co-direct a clinic for patients with autoimmune encephalopathy. He Co-directs the Huntington’s Disease Society of America Center of Excellence (HDSA COE) and Ataxia Clinic at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center. His research interests include rapidly progressive dementias, cognitive dysfunction in movement disorders, such as Huntington's disease, spinocerebellar ataxia, corticobasal degeneration (CBD), progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) and other Parkinsonian dementias.
Abstract
Abstract : Human prion diseases – sporadic Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease