Parkinson's disease: treatment of complications including blood pressure, the gut, swallowing and neuropsychiatric complications
Presented by Neurologist, Professor Mal Horne
Professor Malcolm Horne is a senior member of the Neurodegeneration laboratory at the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health. He also spends time as a consultant neurologist at St Vincent’s Hospital Fitzroy and is a Conjoint Professor, Centre for Neurosciences at the University of Melbourne.
Professor Horne’s clinical interests are in movement disorders, especially in Parkinson’s disease. His research interests relate to
factors underlying the control of movement and in particular
the biological basis underlying Parkinson’s disease. Specifically,
he has been studying how the nervous system repairs injured
nerve cells and how these nerve cells are guided to their targets.