Research Interests
Functional imaging (PETand fMRI) in Parkinson’s disease, Parkinson’s Disease and associated neuropsychiatric and cognitive symptoms
Research Summary
Research Highlights
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Education
Universities of Giessen and Heidelberg, Germany, MD ,
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Recent Publications
•Evans AH, Pavese N, Lawrence AD, Tai YF, Appel S, Doder M, Brooks DJ, Lees AJ, P. Piccini. Compulsive drug use linked to sensitized ventral striatal dopamine transmission. Annals of Neurology, 2006 May; 59(5): 852-8.
•Evans AH, Lawrence AD, Katzenschlager R, Appel-Cresswell S, Lees AJ. Compulsive use of dopaminergic drug therapy in Parkinson’s disease: Reward and Anti-Reward. Accepted for publication in Movement Disorders, October 2009.
•Silke Appel-Cresswell, Shawna Galley, Raul de la Fuente-Fernandez, Martin J McKeown (2010) Imaging of Compensatory Mechanisms in Parkinson’s disease. Current Opinion in Neurology 23: 4. 407-412 Aug.