Alana Kirby Department of Neurological Sciences, Division of Movement Disorders Rush University Medical Center Biography Publications Institution JoVE Articles Alana Kirby Alana Kirby, MD PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Movement Disorders Division of the Department of Neurological Sciences at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois. She completed undergraduate degrees with honors in physics, chemistry and mathematics and a minor in philosophy at North Carolina State University. She went on to receive her medical degree and PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Michigan, and completed neurology residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. She completed a research fellowship studying mechanisms of gait in the laboratory of Dr. Veronique VanderHorst and a clinical fellowship in Movement Disorders at Rush University Medical Center. She recently established her laboratory to study the underlying mechanisms of motor and non-motor symptoms in Parkinson's disease and how they are modulated by deep brain stimulation. Clinically, she specializes in movement disorders neurology, with a particular interest in cognition, mood and gait in neurodegenerative disease. Publications Cognitive Decline in a Case of Poorly Controlled Bipolar Disorder: A Diagnostic and Therapeutic Challenge Harvard Review of Psychiatry. Mar/Apr, 2017 | Pubmed ID: 28272132 النهج الجراحي المجسمة للحقن المجهري لجذع الدماغ الذيلي والحبل الشوكي العنقي العلوي عبر Cisterna Magna في الفئران Krutika Joshi1, Alana Kirby1, Jianguo Niu1, Veronique VanderHorst1 1Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School JoVE 63344 Neuroscience
النهج الجراحي المجسمة للحقن المجهري لجذع الدماغ الذيلي والحبل الشوكي العنقي العلوي عبر Cisterna Magna في الفئران Krutika Joshi1, Alana Kirby1, Jianguo Niu1, Veronique VanderHorst1 1Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School JoVE 63344 Neuroscience