2026 Canadian Movement Disorders Society Congress

December 4 - 5, 2026

Poster Index

Poster # Poster Title Presenter Presenter Presenter
P1 Characterization of gut microbiome-encoded tyrosine decarboxylase in Parkinson?s Disease: protocol for a single-centre observational study (TYE-DYE) Eric Armstrong
P2 Functional Outcomes Following a 10-Week PD Warrior Program: A Real-World Clinical Follow-up of a Neuroplasticity-Driven Exercise Approach Orla Hares
P3 Emotions, Home Environments, and Freezing of Gait in Parkinson?s Disease Abhishesh Homagain
P4 Repurposing rifabutin as a treatment for Parkinson?s disease: protocol for a single-centre, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase 1b trial (RIFA-PD) Adina Borenstein
P5 Effects of bimanual ergometry on dexterity in people with Parkinson’s disease Sierra Castonguay
P6 Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) in Neurodegenerative Movement Disorders: A Systematic Review Nicole Farcy
P7 Investigating Pain in Parkinson Disease using the PINK1-/- Knockout Rat Model Connor Lang
P8 How can we enhance Parkinson?s service provision in Southwestern Ontario? Perspectives from health care and community service providers Olivia Crozier
P9 ?We?re the backbone of the system?: exploring the support and service needs among spousal care partners of individuals with Parkinson?s disease Olivia Crozier
P10 Effectiveness of Long-Term Photobiomodulation Therapy at Home, for Treating Motor and Non-Motor Symptoms in Parkinson?s Disease: A Three-Year Observational Follow-up Study Orla Hares Kaley Togeretez Victoria D’Alessio
P11 Feasibility and Self-Reported Outcomes of Unlocking Movement: An Online Freezing of Gait Self-Management Program for People with Parkinson?s Disease Haseel Bhatt
P12 Predictors of Mortality in Atypical Parkinsonian Syndromes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Karla Cantu Flores
P13 Identification of biomarkers of walking improvement in people with neurological conditions following robot-assisted gait training: a machine learning approach Mathilde Tardif
P14 Unmet Sex- and Gender-Specific Needs of Women Living with Parkinson?s Disease Olha Horbach
P15 Cannabis Use in Parkinson?s Disease: A Mixed-Methods Study of Patterns, Perceived Effects, and Continued Use Olha Horbach
P16 Dysphagia Symptom Profiles and Severity in Parkinson Disease Vanessa Panes
P17 Foslevodopa versus Jejunal Duodopa: Clinical Experience and Treatment Persistence Maria Roque
P18 Single-axon tracing of the subthalamic nucleus input projections arising from the external pallidum in cynomolgus monkeys Talha Khan
P19 What makes an activity worth doing? Value-based decision-making in Parkinson?s disease apathy Dorothée Morand-Grondin
P20 APOE4, COGNITION, AND STRUCTURAL BRAIN CHANGES IN PARKINSON?S DISEASE: A PRELIMINARY LONGITUDINAL PPMI STUDY Angenelle Eve Rosal
P21 Can MDS-UPDRS Scores Help Identify Swallowing Dysfunction in Parkinson Disease? Michelle M. Simmons
P22 Is Parkinson?s disease associated with impaired musical abilities and reduced interest in music? Narges Bayat
P23 Interpretation of Clinical Progression in Multiple System Atrophy Using Percentage-Wise Slowing in the Unified Multiple System Atrophy Rating Scale Score Rachael Kershaw
P24 Targeting BAG5 as a Potential Therapeutic Approach for ?-Synuclein-Mediated Neurodegeneration in Parkinson?s Disease Sunny Yun
P25 The Parkinson?s disease-linked Lrrk2 p.G2019S variant disrupts sex-biased antiviral immunity following intranasal neurotropic infection Karan Thakur
P26 Toward Personalized PNS?TMS Stimulation: Gaussian Process?Based Bayesian Optimization of Interstimulus Intervals in Adults and Children Mohammadreza Effatparvar
P27 Paraquat induces a pre-degenerative vesicular-lysosomal stress state in nigral dopaminergic neurons Craig Vitiate Vishwesh
P28 Deconstructing a Dancing with Parkinson?s Class: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Therapeutic Elements of Dance in Parkinson?s Disease Aashna Kumar Sarah Robichaud
P29 Development of a Neural Network Pipeline to Assess MRI for Detection of Mild Cognitive Impairment in Parkinson?s Disease Anthaea-Grace Patricia Dennis
P30 Influence of frailty on mobility measures amongst older adults with movement disorders Jenna MacDonald
P31 Retrospective Video-Based Motor Assessment: Feasibility of Video-Derived Motor Feature Extraction Orla Hares
P32 FAST-PD Clinic for patients with newly diagnosed Parkinson?s disease Katryna Stronks
P33 Feasibility of contactless video-based motor assessment during routine care in a community Parkinson’s disease clinic: a single-visit pilot study Bronwyn Bridges
P34 The PD-RISK Index: A self-administered screening tool to identify individuals with Parkinson?s Juan Li
P35 Cortical myoclonus as a common and clinically actionable movement disorder phenotype of 22q11.2 deletion syndrome Nikolai Reyes Gil D
P36 Postures and Movement Patterns in Suspected Illicit Drug Use: An Online Video Study Beatrice Heim
P37 Validation of the Characterizing Freezing of Gait (C-FOG) questionnaire: Replicating the evidence for subtypes of freezing of gait in Parkinson?s Disease Abhishesh Homagain