Laura de Lima Xavier, MD, won the Best Poster Design Award at the Boston Speech Motor Contorl Symposium for her poster: "Sex differences and asymmetries in cortical thickness within the speech production network" on June 21, 2019, Boston, MA.

Sandra Hanekamp won the (PI's) Children's Choice Poster Award for her poster: "The structural connectome of isolated task-specific focal dystonia", which she presented at the annual meeting of the Ogranization for Human Brain Mapping, June 9-13, 2019 in Rome, Italy. 

Alexis Worthley, BA, won the Outstanding Paper Award and the Travel Award by the American Laryngological Association (ALA) for the presentation: "A separation of innate and learned vocal behaviors defines the symptomatology of spasmodic dysphonia".

She delivered her talk at the COSM-ALA meeting on May 1-3, 2019 in Austin, TX.

Journal of Clinical Movement Disorders focuses on scientific investigations into the diagnosis, evaluation and management of patients with involuntary movement disorders. The journal reviews, illustrates and emphasizes clinical phenomenology as an indispensable tool for diagnosis and application of translational medicine to movement disorders. Topics covered in the journal include Parkinson's disease, tremor, dystonia, chorea, myoclonus... Read more about Dr. Simonyan has been named an Associate Editor of the Journal of Clinical Movement Disorders