Enclosed with the hard copy issue of the January 2006 newsletter, is a DVD entitled ‘A Physician’s Guide to Progressive Supranuclear Palsy’ (UK subscribers only).

This DVD is a joint US and UK production. It was jointly funded by the Society for Progressive Supranuclar Palsy Association (PSP) in the USA and the PSP Association in the UK and is being sent out to all neurologists in both countries and to all UK-based members of the British Geriatrics Society as we are aware of this group’s key role in the diagnosis of. PSP.

The DVD has been scripted by Prof John Steele, one of the three neurologists who first described PSP in 1963, by Lawrence Golbe MD, Chair of the US Medical Advisory Group of the US Society and by Andrew Lees MD, Chair of the Medical Advisory Panel of the UK PSP Association, with a supporting cast of specialist neurologists. It was produced under the editorial direction of Jim Stephenson, Chief Executive of the UK's Education Broadcasting Trust.

The aim of the DVD is to encapsulate the most up to date advice on the differential diagnosis of this little known and under reported disease, often grouped as a parkinsonian syndrome and still often misdiagnosed. Recent research confirms that PSP is at least as common, and leading neurologists would agree, at least as devastating as its far better known 'cousin', Lew Gerig's or Motor Neurone Disease.

We hope you will be able to find time to look at this DVD or at least keep it as a resource should you have patient who does not quite fit into the pattern of a Parkinson's Disease patient, but nonetheless presents with parkinsonian features.

For more information regarding the PSP, please contact Brigadier Michael R Koe, OBE, Chief Executive of the Association, or visit the website.

Prof Andrew J Lees MD FRCP
Chairman, The PSP Association Medical Advisory Panel

Brigadier Michael R Koe, OBE
Chief Executive
The PSP ASsociation
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