UI Department of Neurology

Ergun Y. Uc, MDUc

Associate Professor
Movement Disorders Division
Division of Neuroergonomics

Address
Office location: 2 RCP
Phone: 319-356-8754
Fax: 319-356-4505
E-mail: ergun-uc@uiowa.edu

Education

Medical School:
Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Turkey, 1988
Residency:
Neurology, University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics
Fellowship:
Movement Disorders Fellowship, University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics
Certifications:
Neurology, 1997

Honors and Awards

  • Elected to Scientific Review Committee of the Parkinson Study Group
  • Co-chair of the Cognitive/Psychiatric Working Group of the Parkinson Study Group
  • Elected to American Neurological Association membership
  • Appointed to Committee on Safe Mobility of Older Persons (ANB60), Transportation Research Board of the National Academies
  • Selected to Best Doctors database
  • Predicting Driver Safety in Parkinson's Disease (RO1 NS44930-01)
  • New Investigator Research Award, College of Public Health-College of Medicine, University of Iowa for the project "Predicting Driver Safety in Parkinson's Disease: A Pilot Study" (January 2003)
  • Scottish Rite Fellowship 1993-94

Professional Affiliations

  • American Neurological Association
  • Parkinson Study Group
  • American Academy of Neurology
  • Huntington Study Group
  • Movement Disorder Society

Clinical Interests

Research Interests

  • Driving and cognitive function in Parkinson's disease
  • Body composition in Parkinson's disease
  • Deep brain stimulation in Parkinson's disease, essential tremor, dystonia
  • Investigational drugs in the treatment of Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders

Papers

  • Uc EY, Wenger DA, Jankovic J: Niemann-Pick Disease Type C: Two Cases and an Update. Movement Disorders, Volume 15(6): 1199-1203, 2000.
  • Uc EY, Dienel GA, Cruz NF, Harik SI. Beta-adrenergics enhance brain extraction of L-Dopa. Movement Disorders, 2002; 17(1):54-59.
  • Uc EY, Rodnitzky RL. Childhood dystonia. Seminars In Pediatric Neurology, 2003;10(1):52-61.
  • Uc EY, Rodnitzky RL. Juvenile parkinsonism. Seminars In Pediatric Neurology, 2003; 10(1):62-7.
  • Uc EY, Skinner RD, Rodnitzky RL, Garcia-Rill E. The midlatency auditory evoked potential P50 is abnormal in Huntington's Disease. Journal of Neurological Sciences, 2003; 212(1-2):1-5.
  • Uc EY, Lambert CP, Harik SI, Rodnitzky RL, Evans WJ. Albuterol improves response to levodopa and increases skeletal muscle mass in patients with fluctuating Parkinson's disease. Clinical Neuropharmacology, 2003; 26(4): 207-212.
  • Uc EY, Rizzo M, Anderson SW, Shi Q, Dawson JD. Driver route-following and safety errors in early Alzheimer disease. (Abstract) Neurology. 2004; 63(5):832-7.
  • Uc EY, Rizzo M, Anderson S, Shi Q, Dawson J. Route-following and safety errors by drivers with stroke. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board (National Academy of Sciences) 2004; 1899:90-95.
  • Uc EY, Rizzo M, Anderson SW, Shi Q, Dawson JD. Driver landmark and traffic sign identification in early Alzheimer's disease. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry, 2005; 76(6):764-8.
  • Uc EY, Rizzo M, Anderson S, Shi Q, Dawson J. Driver Identification of Landmarks and Traffic Signs After a Stroke. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board (National Academy of Sciences), 2005; 1922:9-14.
  • Uc EY, Rizzo M, Shi Q, Anderson SW, Rodnitzky RL, Dawson J. Visual Dysfunction in Parkinson's Disease without Dementia, Neurology, 2005; 65(12): 1907-13.
  • Uc EY, Struck LK, Rodnitzky RL, Zimmerman B, Dobson J, Evans WJ. Predictors of Weight Loss in Parkinson's Disease. Movement Disorders, 2006; 21(7):930-36.
  • Uc EY, Rizzo M, Anderson S, Shi Q, Dawson JD. Unsafe rear-end collision avoidance in Alzheimer's disease, J Neurol Sci, 2006 (in press).
  • Uc EY, Follett KA. Deep Brain Stimulation in Movement Disorders, Seminars in Neurology, 2006 (invited article, in press).
  • Uc EY, Rizzo M, Anderson SW, Sparks J, Rodnitzky RL, Dawson JD. Impaired Visual Search in Drivers with Parkinson's Disease, Annals of Neurology, 2006 (in press).
  • Uc EY, Rizzo M, Anderson SW, Sparks J, Rodnitzky RL, Dawson JD. Driving with Distraction in Parkinson's Disease, Neurology, 2006 (in press).

Chapters

  • Rodnitzky RL, Uc EY. Approach to the Hypokinetic Patient. In: Biller J, editor. Practical Neurology. Philadelphia: Lippincott-Raven, Philadelphia, 1997: 299-311.
  • Afifi AK, Uc EY. Cortico-Subcortical Circuitries for Movement, Cognition, and Behaviour. In: Coffey CE and Brumback RA, editors. Textbook of Pediatric Neuropsychiatry. American Psychiatric Press, Inc., Washington, D.C., 1998: 65-100.
  • Uc EY, DeLeo A, Rodnitzky RL. Clinical Trials in Parkinson's Disease. In: Biller J and Bogousslavsky J, editors. Clinical Trials in Neurologic Practice.Blue Books of Practical Neurology. Butterworth-Heinemann, 2001: 173-199.
  • Rodnitzky RL, Uc EY. Approach to the Hypokinetic Patient. In: Biller J, editor. Practical Neurology, 2nd edition. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2002: 343-357.
  • Rodnitzky RL, Uc EY. Movement Disorders. In: Joynt RJ, Griggs RC editors. Baker's Clinical Neurology, CD-ROM. Philadelphia: Lippincott-Raven Publishers, Philadelphia, 2003 & 2004 editions.
  • Lambert CP, Uc EY, Evans WJ. B2-Adrenergic Agonists in the Treatment of Muscle Atrophy. In: Hofbauer KG, Anker DS, Inui A, Nicholson JR, editors. Pharmacotherapy of Cachexia. Boca Raton: CRC Press-Taylor & Francis Group, 2006: 311-324.
  • Uc EY, Rodnitzky RL Movement Disorders in Children. In: Coffey CE, Brumback RA, Rosenberg DR, Voeller KKS editors. Pediatric Neuropsychiatry. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006: 425-451.

 

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