A/Prof David R Williams

Publications

Williams DR.

The yawning reflex: an upper motor neuron sign in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

(Neurology 2000;55:1592)

Williams DR, Stark RJ.

Intravenous lignocaine (lidocaine) infusion for the treatment of chronic daily headache

with substantial medication overuse

(Cephalalgia 2003;23:963-71)

Williams DR.

Psychogenic palatal tremor

(Movement Disorders 2004;19:333-5)

Williams DR.

Gaze evoked brainstem myoclonus

(Movement Disorders 2004;19:346-9)

Williams DR, Reardon K, Roberts R, Dennet X, Duff R, Laing NG, Byrne E.

A new dominant distal myopathy affecting posterior leg and anterior upper limb muscles.

(Neurology. 2005 Apr 12;64(7):1245-54)

Williams DR, Hadeed A, Al-Din AS, Wreikat AL, Lees AJ.

Kufor Rakeb disease: autosomal recessive, levodopa responsive parkinsonism with pyramidal degeneration, supranuclear gaze palsy and dementia

(Movement Disorders. 2005; 20: 1264-71)

Pittman AM, Myers AJ, Abou-Sleiman P, Fung HC, Kaleem M, Marlowe L, Duckworth J, Leung D, Williams D, Kilford L, Thomas N, Morris CM, Dickson D, Wood NW, Hardy J, Lees AJ, de Silva R .

Linkage disequilibrium fine-mapping and haplotype association analysis of the tau gene in progressive supranuclear palsy and corticobasal degeneration

(J Med Genet 2005; Mar 25)

Williams DR, de Silva R, Paviour DC, Pittman A, Watt HC, Kilford L, Holton J, Revesz T, Lees AJ.

Characteristics of two distinct clinical phenotypes in pathologically proven progressive supranuclear palsy: Richardsons syndrome and PSP-parkinsonism

(Brain. 2005 Jun;128(Pt 6):1247-58)

Paviour DC, Williams D, Fowler CJ, Quinn NP, Lees AJ.

Is sphincter electromyography a helpful investigation in the diagnosis of multiple system atrophy? A retrospective study with pathological diagnosis.

(Movement Disorders. 2005; 20:1425-1430)

Williams DR, Watt HC, Lees AJ.

Falls and fractures: predictors and prognosis in pathologically diagnosed bradykinetic rigid syndromes

(JNNP; 2006;77:468-473)

Williams DR, Lees AJ.

Visual hallucinations in the diagnosis of idiopathic Parkinson’s disease: a retrospective study

(Lancet Neurology, 2005;4(10):605-610)

Williams DR

Tauopathies: classification and clinical update on neurodegeneration associated with microtubule associated protein tau

(Intern Med J. 2006 Oct;36(10):652-60)

Williams DR, Holton J, Strand K, Pittman A, de Silva R, Lees AJ, Revesz T

Pathological tau burden and distribution distinguishes progressive supranuclear palsy-parkinsonism from Richardson's syndrome

(Brain 2007 Jun;130(Pt 6):1566-76.)

Schott JM, Williams DR, Butterworth RJ, Janssen JC, Larner AJ, Holton JL, Rossor MN.

Shunt responsive progressive supranuclear palsy?
(Movement Disorders 2007 Apr 30;22(6):902-3)

Williams DR, Pittman AM, Revesz T, Lees AJ, de Silva

Genetic variation at the tau locus and clinical syndromes associated with progressive supranuclear palsy.
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Movement Disorders 2007 Apr 30;22(6):895-7)

Williams DR.

James Parkinson’s London.

(Movement Disorders  2007;22(13):1857-9.)

Williams DR, Lees AJ, Wherret JR, Steele JC. 

J Clifford Richardson and fifty years of progressive supranuclear palsy.

(Neurology. 2008 ;70(7):566-73)

Kempster PA, Williams DR, Selikhova M, Revesz T, Lees AJ.

Patterns of levodopa response in Parkinson’s disease: a clinico-pathological study.

(Brain. 2007;130:2123-8)

Williams DR, Holton J, Strand K, Revesz T, Lees AJ

Pure akinesia with gait freezing: a third clinical phenotype of progressive supranuclear palsy

(Mov Disord. 2007;22(15):2235-41)

Williams DR, Lees AJ

How do patients with parkinsonism present? A clinicopathological study

(Intern Med J. 2008 Apr 14. [Epub ahead of print])

O'Sullivan SS, Massey LA, Williams DR, Silveira-Moriyama L, Kempster PA, Holton JL, Revesz T, Lees AJ.

Clinical outcomes of progressive supranuclear palsy and multiple system atrophy

(Brain. 2008;131:1362-72)

Williams DR, Doyle LM, Lees AJ, Brown P

The auditory startle response in parkinsonism may reveal the extent but not type of pathology

(J Neurol. 2008;255(5):628-32)

O'Sullivan SS, Williams DR, Gallagher DA, Massey LA, Silveira-Moriyama L, Lees AJ.

Nonmotor symptoms as presenting complaints in Parkinson's disease: a clinicopathological study(Mov Disord. 2008;23(1):101-6)

O'Sullivan SS, Holton JL, Massey LA, Williams DR, Revesz T, Lees AJ.

Parkinson's disease with Onuf's nucleus involvement mimicking multiple system atrophy.

(J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2008;79(2):232-4)

Williams DR, Warren J, Lees AJ

Using the presence of visual hallucinations to differentiate Parkinson's disease from atypical parkinsonism.

(J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2008;79(6):652-5.)

Healy DG, Falchi M, O'Sullivan SS, Bonifati V, Durr A, Bressman S, Brice A, Aasly J, Zabetian CP, Goldwurm S, Ferreira JJ, Tolosa E, Kay DM, Klein C, Williams DR, Marras C, Lang AE, Wszolek ZK, Berciano J, Schapira AH, Lynch T, Bhatia KP, Gasser T, Lees AJ, Wood NW; International LRRK2 Consortium.

Phenotype, genotype, and worldwide genetic penetrance of LRRK2-associated Parkinson's disease: a case-control study

(Lancet Neurol. 2008 Jul;7(7):583-90)

Williams DR, Cowey M, Tuck K, Day B.

Psychogenic propriospinal myoclonus

(Mov Disord. 2008;23(9):1312-3)

Luka C, Giovannoni G, Williams DR, Lees AJ, de Silva R

Development of a sensitive ELISA for quantification of three-and four-repeat tau isoforms in tauopathies

(J Neurosci Methods. Accepted for publication)

Williams DR, Lees AJ

Progressive supranuclear palsy: clinicopathological concepts and diagnostic challenges.

Lancet Neurol. 2009;(3):270-9.