

Professor Tim Anderson, Clinical Director of the New Zealand Brain Research Institution (NZBRI) will discuss research developments within in Parkinson’s disease, one of the fastest growing neurological disorders worldwide. The New Zealand Brain Research Institute has estimated that 1% of New Zealanders over 60 years of age have Parkinson’s with some 10,000 people affected and this figure will double by 2040.
Dr Tracy Melzer, MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) Research Manager at the New Zealand Brain Research Institution will discuss his exciting research including the role he has in the longitudinal Parkinson’s disease study and what the future holds for this study and for neuroimaging.
About the speakers
Professor Tim Anderson is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Medicine, at the University of Otago, Christchurch, and the MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) Research Manager at the New Zealand Brain Research Institute (NZBRI). He works within the Parkinson’s disease research group that has recruited one of the world’s largest single-centre cohorts of well-characterised Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients with MRI data. This cohort is unique and is the result of years of effort from many members of the NZBRI and a large group of volunteers, both with and without Parkinson’s disease.
Dr Tracy Melzer is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Medicine, at the University of Otago, Christchurch, and the MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) Research Manager at the New Zealand Brain Research Institute (NZBRI). He works within the Parkinson’s disease research group that has recruited one of the world’s largest single-centre cohorts of well-characterised Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients with MRI data. This cohort is unique and is the result of years of effort from many members of the NZBRI and a large group of volunteers, both with and without Parkinson’s disease.
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