Disorders of Movement: A Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment Paperback
- Publisher : Springer
- Language : English
- Paperback : 448 pages
- ISBN-13 : 9783662569252
- Item Weight : 956 g
- Dimensions : 15.49 x 2.69 x 23.5 cm
- Country of Origin : India
About the Author
Dr. Davide Martino, MD, PhD is a Consultant Neurologist at the Centre of Excellence for Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders and Honorary Senior Lecturer at King’s College London Hospitals since 2013. He qualified as Specialist Neurologist at the University of Bari, Italy, in 2004 where he also completed a PhD in Clinical Neuroscience in 2008, following which he held a post-doctoral researcher position at the same University. He completed a fellowship in Movement Disorders at the Institute of Neurology, University College London in Queen Square (2003-2006). He has been a recipient and collaborator on several national and international grant project awards from different funding bodies, amongst which the NIHR of NHS England, EU-Framework Project 7, Parkinson’s UK, and the Italian Ministry of University and Research. His research activity has focussed on epidemiology and pathophysiology of dystonia, Tourette’s syndrome (with a special focus on the role of environmental factors and immunity), functional movement disorders and drug-induced movement disorders. He is a co-founder of the European Society for the Study of Tourette Syndrome (ESSTS) and member of the MDS Study Group for non-motor symptoms in Parkinson’s Disease, and has co-authored more than 110 peer-reviewed articles on international journals, book chapters and books. In particularly, he is co-editor with J. Leckman of an influential monography on Tourette syndrome (2013) and has co-edited with A. Cavanna a volume on Neuropharmacology of Tourette syndrome. He regularly lectures at international conferences of neurological societies including the Movement Disorders Society and the European Academy of Neurology.
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