Motor System Disorders, Part I

David S. Younger MD DrPH, MPH MS is an Affiliate Professor of Neuroscience at City University of New York Medical School and Attending Physician at White Plains Hospital, NY. He mentors students at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is Board certified in Neurology, Internal Medicine, Electrodiagnostic Medicine (AANEM) and Neurophysiology (ABCN). As Associate Editor of the Seminars in Neurology he prepared the 1st edition of his textbook, Motor Disorders, now in its 4th edition. He is an electrophysiologist and neuromuscular specialist. For the past decade his work has focused on autoimmunity of the nervous system and the use of immunotherapy and in COVID-19 neurological illnesses. He is the author of Human Lyme Neuroborreliosis, Science of Medical Cannabis, The Vasculitides, and The Autoimmune Brain; and he has been Guest Editor of the multiple volumes of the Neurological Clinics. He has also authored more than 300 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, correspondence and scientific abstracts on a wide variety of topics.