November 2024 – ABC interview with Sonya Voumard
In this short interview, journalist and award winning author Sonya Voumard talks about her new book ‘Tremor, A movement disorder in a disordered world‘. Listen to the interview here. Purchase the book here.
October 2024 – Medical Minds Podcast – Assoc Prof Kishore Kumar on promising genetic research into movement disorders
In this very interesting podcast Associate Professor Kishore Kumar of the Garvan Institute, Sydney speaks about his promising genetic research in relation to movement disorders such as Parkinson’s, dystonia and ataxia. Listen to the podcast here.
September 2023 – Goldfields FM radio interview with Wendy and Trish
In this interview Wendy describes how dystonia has impacted her life and Trish talks about what their local community is doing in September to raise awareness of dystonia. Listen to the interview here.
2023 – American Brain Coalition Podcast – Advocacy Champions
In this podcast representatives of the Dystonia Medical Research Foundation (United States) discuss the importance of dystonia awareness and advocacy. A link to listen to the podcast is here.
2023 – International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society
The Society has a series of podcasts on their website. As at June 2023 there are nine about Dystonia. To go to the podcasts on their website click here. To find the Dystonia podcasts please go to ‘Search Podcasts’ then type ‘Dystonia’ in the ‘Keywords’ field.
2020 – Australian of the Year Dr James Muecke reveals he has dystonia
Dr Muecke is interviewed in this print article about his work on tackling obesity and the fact that he stopped performing surgery due to developing dystonia. Read the article here.
2020 – The Hills Radio Adelaide interview with Kerrie and Laraine
Kerrie and Laraine were interviewed on the 3rd September about dystonia and DNA. Listen to the interview below.
With permission of The Hills Radio Adelaide
2019 – ABC Health Report on Dystonia
The ABC radio program ‘Health Report’ produced an episode on dystonia during Dystonia Awareness Week in 2019. DNA members Robyn and Paul told their stories about dystonia. DNA advisory board member A/Prof Victor Fung spoke about botox and its effectiveness for treating dystonia. Advisory board member A/Prof Stephen Tisch spoke about movement disorders, a new MRI and gaps in gene research. Advisory board member A/Prof Lynley Bradnam spoke about different types of dystonia, its history and DBS surgery. Listen to the program here.
2015 – Interview with Dr Kishore Kumar
Movement disorder neurologist Dr Kishore Kumar was interviewed by the Dubbo Weekender about different types of dystonia, using genome sequencing to study dystonia and the facilitation of this research by the Paul Ainsworth Family Foundation. Read the article here.
Page updated 12 November 2024
