Servicio de Neurología Instituto Universitario Dexeus Barcelona

Area Asistencial

Trastornos del Movimiento

• Temblor esencial.
• Enfermedad de Parkinson.
• Parálisis supranuclear progresiva
• Atrofia multisistémica.
• Degeneración córtico-basal.
• Demencia de cuerpos de Lewy.
• Corea y enfermedad de Hungtinton.
• Distonía.
• Tics y síndrome de Gilles de la Tourette.
• Síndrome de piernas inquietas.
• Mioclonias
• Espasticidad.

Datos Académicos

• Licenciado en Medicina y Cirugía. Universidad de Barcelona 1981.
• Especialista en Neurología. Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau 1985.
• Doctor Cum Laude en Medicina. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 1992.
• Coordinador del Máster Diagnóstico y Rehabilitación Neuropsicológica de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
• Premio de investigación Joan Concustell 1995.
• Premio Década del Cerebro en Enfermedad de Parkinson de la Sociedad Española de Neurología 1996.

Sociedades Científicas

• Miembro numerario de la Sociedad Española de Neurología (SEN).
• Miembro del Grupo de Estudio de Trastornos del Movimiento de la SEN. Coordinador del Grupo (período 1998-1999).
• Miembro de la Sociedad Catalana de Neurología (SCN).
• Miembro de la Sociedad Española de Psicofisiología Clínica.
• Miembro de la Movement Disorders Society.
• Miembro de la Task Force on UPDRS Revision de la Movement Disorders Society.
• Miembro del Consejo Asesor de la Asociación Catalana de la Enfermedad de Parkinson (ACAP)
• Miembro de la Asociación para la Lucha contra la Distonía en España (ALDE).

Publicaciones internacionales desde 2003

• Berthier ML, Kulisevsky J, Asenjo B, Aparicio J, Lara D. Comorbid Asperger and Tourette’s syndrome with localised mesencephalic, infrathalamic and striatal damage. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology 2003; 45: 207-212.
• Berthier ML, Pujol J, Gironell A, Kulisevsky J, Deus J, Hinojosa J, Soriano-Mas. Beneficial effect of donepezil on sensorimotor function after stroke. A functional MRI and neurophysiologic study. En American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation 2003; 82: 725-729.
• Grandas F, Kulisevsky J. Treatment of Parkinson’s disease in Spain. Movement Disorders 2003; 18; 87-89.
• Martin JLR, Barbanoj M, Schlaepfer TE, Thompson E, Pérez V, Kulisevsky J. Effectiveness of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for the treatment of depression: systematic review and meta-analysis. En British Journal of Psychiatry 2003; 182: 480-91.
• Gironell A, Kulisevsky J, Rami L, Fortuny N, García-Sánchez C, Pascual-Sedano B. Effects of pallidotomy and bilateral subthalamic stimulation on cognitive function in Parkinson disease: a controlled comparative study. En Journal of Neurology 2003; 250: 917-923.
• Gironell A, Kulisevsky J, Roig C, Pascual-Sedano B, Rodríguez-Fornells A, Otermin P. Diagnostic potential of acoustic startle reflex, acoustic blink reflex and electro-oculography in progressive supranucelar palsy: a prospective study. En Movement Disorders 2003; 18: 1273-1279.
• Gironell A, Rodriguez-Fornells A, Kulisevsky J, Pascual B, Barbanoj M, Otermin P. Motor circuit re-organization after pallidotomy in Parkinson’s disease: a neurophysiological study of the bereitschaft potential, contingent negative variation, and N30. Journal Clinical Neurophysiology 2002; 19: 553-561.
• Rami L, Gironell A, Kulisevsky J, García-Sánchez C, Berthier M, Estévez-Gonzalez A. Effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation on memory subtypes: a controlled study. En Neuropsychologia 2003; 41: 1877-1883.
• Estevez-Gonzalez A, Garcia-Sanchez C, Boltes A, Otermin P, Pascual-Sedano B, Gironell A, Kulisevsky J. Semantic knowledge of famous people in mild cognitive impairment and progression to Alzheimer’s disease. En Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders 2003; 17: 188-195.
• Estevez-Gonzalez A, Kulisevsky J, Boltes A, Otermin P, Garcia-Sanchez C. Rey Verbal Learning Test is a useful tool for differential diagnosis in the preclinical phase of Alzheimer’s disease: comparison with mild cognitive impairment and normal aging. En International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 2003; 18: 1021-1028.
• Estorch M, Carrio I I, Mena E, Flotats A, Camacho V, Fuertes J, Kulisevsky J, Narula J. Challenging the neuronal MIBG uptake by pharmacological intervention: effect of a single dose of oral amitriptyline on regional cardiac MIBG uptake. En Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imagining. 2004.
• Estevez-González A, García-Sánchez C, Boltes A, Otermín P, Baiget M,Escartín A, Del Río E, Gironell A, Kulisevsky J. Preclinical memory profile in Alzheimer patients with and without allele APOE-epsilon4. En Eur Neurol 2004; 51: 199-205.
• Estevez-Gonzalez A, Garcia-Sanchez C, Boltes A, Otermin P, Pascual-Sedano B, Gironell A, Kulisevsky J. Semantic knowledge of famous people in mild cognitive impairment and progression to Alzheimer's disease. En Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord. 2004; 17: 188-195.
• Gironell A, Kulisevsky J, Pascual-Sedano B, Barbanoj M. Routine neurophysiologic analysis as a diagnostic tool for essential tremor: a prospective study. En Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology 2004; 21: 446-450.
• Kulisevsky J, Roldán E. Hallucinations and sleep disturbances in Parkinson's disease. En Neurology. 2004; 63(8 Suppl 3): S28-30.
• Emre M, Aarsland D, Albanese A, Byrne J, Deuschl G, De Deyn PP, Durif F, Kulisevsky J, van Laar T, Lees A, Poewe W, Robillard A, Rosa MM, Wolters E, Quarg P, Tekin S, Lane R. Rivastigmine in dementia associated with Parkinson’s disease: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study. En New England Journal of Medicine 2004; 351: 29-38.
• Gironell A, Garcia-Sanchez C, Estevez-Gonzalez A, Boltes A, Kulisevsky J. Usefulness of p300 in subjective memory complaints: a prospective study. En J Clin Neurophysiol 2005; 22: 279-84.
• Gironell A, Amirian G, Kulisevsky J, Molet J. Usefulness of an intraoperative electrophysiological navigator system for subthalamic nucleus surgery in Parkinson's disease. En Stereotact Funct Neurosurg 2005; 83: 101-7.
• Rodriguez-Oroz MC, Obeso JA, Lang AE, Houeto JL, Pollak P, Rehncrona S, Kulisevsky J, Albanese A, Volkmann J, Hariz MI, Quinn NP, Speelman JD, Guridi J, Zamarbide I, Gironell A, Molet J, Pascual-Sedano B, Pidoux B, Bonnet AM, Agid Y, Xie J, Benabid AL, Lozano AM, Saint-Cyr J, Romito L, Contarino MF, Scerrati M, Fraix V, Van Blercom N. Bilateral deep brain stimulation in Parkinson's disease: a multicentre study with 4 years follow-up. En Brain. 2005; 128: 2240-9.
• Thalamas C, Rajman I, Kulisevsky J, Lledo A, Mackie AE, Blin O, Gillespie TA, Seger M, Rascol O. Pergolide: multiple-dose pharmacokinetics in patients with mild to moderate Parkinson disease. En Clin Neuropharmacol 2005; 28: 120-5.
• Gironell A, Rami L, Kulisevsky J, Garcia-Sanchez C. Lack of prefrontal repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation effects in time production processing. En Eur J Neurol 2005;12:891-896.
• Gironell A, Kulisevsky J, Pascual-Sedano B, Flamarich D. Effect of amantadine in essential tremor: a randomized, placebo-controlled trial. En Mov Disord 2006;21:441-445.
• Goetz CG, Fahn S, Martinez-Martin P, Poewe W, Sampaio C, Stebbins GT, Stern MB, Tilley BC, Dodel R, Dubois B, Holloway R, Jankovic J, Kulisevsky J, Lang AE, Lees A, Leurgans S, LeWitt PA, Nyenhuis D, Olanow CW, Rascol O, Schrag A, Teresi JA, Van Hilten JJ, LaPelle N. Movement Disorder Society-sponsored revision of the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (MDS-UPDRS): Process, format, and clinimetric testing plan. En Mov Disord 2007;22:41-47.
• Kulisevsky J, Pascual-Sedano B, Barbanoj M, Gironell A, Pagonabarraga J, Garcia-Sanchez C. Acute effects of immediate and controlled-release levodopa on mood in Parkinson's disease: A double-blind study. En Mov Disord 2007;22:62-67.