Movement Disorders Neurologist |Assistant Professor of Neurology at Washington University in St. Louis @WUSTLMed
Joined June 2010
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Outstanding work by Ivan Martinez-Valbuena, @GGKovacsBrain, and Tony Lang, now published in @NatureMedicine, demonstrating the value of 4R tau SAA for the diagnosis of PSP. Thrilled to have played a small role in this impactful study!
@WashUNeurology
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I’m honored to be appointed as
Medical Director of the @MayoClinic Peripheral Nerve Pathology Laboratory. Big shoes to fill after Dr. Jim Dyck led the lab for the past 20 years. Before him, the legendary lab founder and director was Professor Peter Dyck.
I’m forever grateful to my family, mentors, and patients. I will do my best to elevate our laboratory to new heights and discover innovative therapies for our patients.
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Hot off the press! Nerve biopsy is more sensitive than fat aspirate and skin biopsy for amyloid diagnosis in symptomatic ATTRv peripheral neuropathy (95% vs 48% and 53%). Great @MayoClinicNeuro enterprise collaboration and strong work from Mayo MS4 and incoming @UVANeurology star resident @APanrudkevich . @GreenJournal bit.ly/4tqCXPH
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May 1
i'm insanely proud of the work i get to do for @movedisorder 😊while it's definitely not much, i do get to contribute to many fabulous efforts
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also check out the wonderful young members paper highlights!
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Apr 13
Grateful to take my first step in formal ethics training through NITCEE. Thank you @AANmember @dilucadaniel @LauraXavierMD
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"To go from a place where these models have never been deployed in the real world to having that high a percentage of people feel like it was acceptable, and some subset really feel like it improved their symptoms, to my view, was quite striking." movementdisorders.org/Moving…
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Mar 31
From adaptive DBS and AI to probiotics, neuroimaging, and new ataxia therapies, the latest Moving Along issue covers key advances shaping the field.
Read the March 2026 issue: movementdisorders.org/MDS/Mo…
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Thanks, @ToddMHerrington, for the enlightening discussion on adaptive DBS. Looking forward to the next steps and future indications.
@movedisorder @WashUNeurology
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Daniel G. Di Luca retweeted
If I were starting my clinical fellowship again today, this is what I would do
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WashU Medicine Neurology ranks No. 2 in NIH funding among all neurology departments in the U.S.! We would like to express our profound gratitude to our faculty, staff and trainees for their relentless hard work and innovative research.
Read more: bit.ly/4rqoNxP
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Supportive features are more common in PD (levodopa resp), while exclusions/red flags cluster in atypical parkinsonism. But some “red flags” still show up in PD. Criteria may need refinement and better biomarkers.
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Using autopsy-confirmed PD and atypical parkinsonism cases, this study reexamines the 2015 MDS diagnostic criteria for PD to see how well individual criterion distinguish true PD in clinical practice. loom.ly/r9B293Q
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Feb 14
Wonderful to connect/reconnect with such an incredible community of movement disorders colleagues.
@AlissaHigMD @dilucadaniel @RoyCLinMD @AMahajanMD
@movedisorder #PASCongress
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Feb 14
Our work,”Quality Analysis of Online Facebook Video Materials on the Application of HIFU in ET,” was selected for a Guided Poster Tour at #MDSPAS2026.
Grateful to Dr. Chitnis and Dr. Capto for stopping by and for the thoughtful discussion and a special thank you to my mentor.
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Wonderful work by @NeuroLinaO and @LauraXavierMD at the MDS-PAS meeting exploring social media perception of MRgFUS in ET.
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Wonderful work by WashU @ndosenbach with major implications for treatment and neuromodulation.
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Breakthrough @Nature study showcases new non-invasive treatment for Parkinson’s Disease that targets the somato-cognitive action network (SCAN) with personalized neuromodulation for superior outcomes. nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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Daniel G. Di Luca retweeted
Abstract submissions for BRAZIL NEURO26 are now open. This is a unique opportunity to present your scientific work and enjoy Rio de Janeiro, the Wonderful City.
Full information, rules, and submission guidelines are available here congressoabneuro2026.com.br/…
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Jan 20
Fantastic CPC from four of my PGY-4s Nathan, Tae, Rachel, Ammar presenting mystery case rare form NBIA spectrum dystonia-parkinsonism, PLA2G6-associated Neurodegeneration (PLAN) with faculty, Daniel Di Luca. Our trainees have incredible exposure to the full breadth of neurology.
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Jan 19
“Science is fundamentally different than, say, remodeling a kitchen.”
A must-listen interview by former NIH Deputy Director for Extramural Research on the history of federal funding, pitfalls of the process and suggested future of scientific research.
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Daniel G. Di Luca retweeted
If you write a review article, please try to educate the reader rather than vomiting up the literature. Many can summarize the evidence, but few can do so in an informative and didactic way. There are too many reviews out there. Try to make yours unique and meaningful.
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Daniel G. Di Luca retweeted
30 Dec 2025
Did you ask Santa 🎅 why do some dystonia patients respond to GPi-DBS within weeks while others take months?
Well, give ME the milk and cookies 🥛🍪, because we investigated the networks differences predicting EARLY improvement after DBS.
@MDJ_Journal
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