John N. Caviness, M.D.

Location: Arizona

Academic Rank
Professor of Neurology

Summary

My clinical practice involves movement disorders, electrophysiology of movement disorders, and interpretation of electroencephalography. My main research interest is cortical function in Parkinson's disease and its role in cognitive deterioration/dementia. I have discovered and characterized small-amplitude myoclonus in Parkinson's disease and established its cortical origin. I have described EEG analysis of the mild cognitive impairment state in Parkinson's disease. Also, with colleagues, have proposed a definition for mild cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease. Other research interests are:

Movement Disorders
Myoclonus, particularly the Myoclonus associated with neurodegenerative disease
Electrophysiology of Movement Disorders, particularly Myoclonus
Huntington's disease
Clinical Neurophysiology of electroencephalography
Basic Movment Physiology
Cellular neurophysiology/neurochemistry
Neurochemistry
Clinical-Pathological correlation of neurodegenerative disease

Recent publications

See a listing of my publications

Education

Fellowship – Movement Disorders, Director C.D. Marsden, FRS
Queen Square Institute of Neurology

Fellowship – Electroencephalography, Director Frank Sharborough, MD
Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic

Residency – Neurology
Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic

Internship – Internal Medicine
Indiana University Hospitals, Indiana University, Indianapolis

M.D.
School of Medicine, Indiana University, Indianapolis

B.S. – Chemistry
College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington

Areas of Research
Movement neurophysiology
Parkinson's disease and movement disorders

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