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Raymon Durso, MD

Associate Professor

Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Neurology

MD, State University of New York at Buffalo
BS, Stony Brook University

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Raymon Durso, MD, is an Associate Professor of Neurology at the Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine. He also acts as a mentor for graduate medical students at the university. Dr. Durso arrived at the university after completing his fellowship at the NIH/Experimental Therapeutics Branch in Bethesda. Since 2001 he has been a member of the editorial board of Clinical Drug Reviews, an NIH peer review consultant, and has won a VA Merit Review Award. Currently, Dr. Durso directs the Neuropharmacology Laboratory. He has a special interest in Parkinson's disease and was featured in a Who’s Who in the East.

Graduate Faculty (Primary Mentor of Grad Students)
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Graduate Medical Sciences

VA Boston Healthcare System

BU Research

Personnel agreement for research services of Raymon Durso
03/01/2013 - 02/28/2014 (Subcontract PI)
Boston VA Research Institute, Inc. John Templeton Fdn

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Publications listed below are automatically derived from MEDLINE/PubMed and other sources, which might result in incorrect or missing publications. Faculty can login to make corrections and additions.

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Sparrow D, DeMolles D, Dubaz O, Durso R, Rosner B. Design issues in crossover trials involving patients with Parkinson's disease. Front Neurol. 2023; 14:1197281.View Related Profiles.

Sparrow, David
Durso, Raymon

PMID: 37670777; PMCID: PMC10476358; DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2023.1197281;

Smart K, Durso R, Morgan J, McNamara P. A potential case of remission of Parkinson's disease. J Complement Integr Med. 2016 Sep 01; 13(3):311-315.View Related Profiles.

McNamara, Patrick
Durso, Raymon

PMID: 27379905; DOI: 10.1515/jcim-2016-0019;

Morgan J, Clark D, Tripodis Y, Halloran CS, Minsky A, Wildman WJ, Durso R, McNamara P. Impacts of religious semantic priming on an intertemporal discounting task: Response time effects and neural correlates. Neuropsychologia. 2016 Aug; 89:403-13.View Related Profiles.

McNamara, Patrick
Durso, Raymon
Tripodis, Yorghos

PMID: 27450269; DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.07.020;

Harris E, McNamara P, Durso R. Possible selves in patients with right- versus left-onset Parkinson's disease. Neuropsychol Dev Cogn B Aging Neuropsychol Cogn. 2017 Mar; 24(2):198-215.View Related Profiles.

McNamara, Patrick
Durso, Raymon

PMID: 27141970; DOI: 10.1080/13825585.2016.1178211;

Harris E, McNamara P, Durso R. Novelty seeking in patients with right- versus left-onset Parkinson disease. Cogn Behav Neurol. 2015 Mar; 28(1):11-6.View Related Profiles.

McNamara, Patrick
Durso, Raymon

PMID: 25812126; DOI: 10.1097/WNN.0000000000000047;

Ratner MH, Farb DH, Ozer J, Feldman RG, Durso R. Younger age at onset of sporadic Parkinson's disease among subjects occupationally exposed to metals and pesticides. Interdiscip Toxicol. 2014 Sep; 7(3):123-33.View Related Profiles.

Farb, David
Ratner, Marcia
Durso, Raymon

PMID: 26109889; PMCID: PMC4434105; DOI: 10.2478/intox-2014-0017;

Harris E, McNamara P, Durso R. Apathy in patients with Parkinson disease as a function of side of onset. J Geriatr Psychiatry Neurol. 2013 Jun; 26(2):95-104.View Related Profiles.

McNamara, Patrick
Durso, Raymon

PMID: 23584852; DOI: 10.1177/0891988713481267;

Modak A, Durso R, Josephs E, Rosen D. A rapid non invasive L-DOPA-¹³C breath test for optimally suppressing extracerebral AADC enzyme activity - toward individualizing carbidopa therapy in Parkinson’s disease. J Parkinsons Dis. 2012; 2(4):349-56. PMID: 23646099; PMCID: PMC3640795; DOI: 10.3233/JPD-012132;

Butler PM, McNamara P, Ghofrani J, Durso R. Disease-associated differences in religious cognition in patients with Parkinson's disease. J Clin Exp Neuropsychol. 2011 Oct; 33(8):917-28.View Related Profiles.

McNamara, Patrick
Durso, Raymon

PMID: 21656414; DOI: 10.1080/13803395.2011.575768;

Butler PM, McNamara P, Durso R. Side of onset in Parkinson's disease and alterations in religiosity: novel behavioral phenotypes. Behav Neurol. 2011; 24(2):133-41.View Related Profiles.

McNamara, Patrick
Durso, Raymon

PMID: 21606574; PMCID: PMC5377949; DOI: 10.3233/BEN-2011-0282;

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McNamara P, Stavitsky K, Harris E, Szent-Imrey O, Durso R. Mood, side of motor symptom onset and pain complaints in Parkinson's disease. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2010 May; 25(5):519-24.View Related Profiles.

McNamara, Patrick
Durso, Raymon

PMID: 19711336; DOI: 10.1002/gps.2374;

McNamara P, Stavitsky K, Durso R, Harris E. The Impact of Clinical and Cognitive Variables on Social Functioning in Parkinson's Disease: Patient versus Examiner Estimates. Parkinsons Dis. 2010; 2010.View Related Profiles.

McNamara, Patrick
Durso, Raymon

PMID: 20948889; PMCID: PMC2951137; DOI: 10.4061/2010/263083;

McNamara P, Holtgraves T, Durso R, Harris E. Social cognition of indirect speech: Evidence from Parkinson's Disease. J Neurolinguistics. 2010 Mar 01; 23(2):162.View Related Profiles.

McNamara, Patrick
Durso, Raymon

PMID: 20161657; PMCID: PMC2818756; DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2009.12.003;

Butler PM, McNamara P, Durso R. Deficits in the automatic activation of religious concepts in patients with Parkinson's disease. J Int Neuropsychol Soc. 2010 Mar; 16(2):252-61.View Related Profiles.

McNamara, Patrick
Durso, Raymon

PMID: 19958570; DOI: 10.1017/S1355617709991202;

Holtgraves T, McNamara P, Cappaert K, Durso R. Linguistic correlates of asymmetric motor symptom severity in Parkinson's Disease. Brain Cogn. 2010 Mar; 72(2):189-96.View Related Profiles.

McNamara, Patrick
Durso, Raymon

PMID: 19751960; PMCID: PMC2819546; DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2009.08.004;

Stavitsky K, McNamara P, Durso R, Harris E, Auerbach S, Cronin-Golomb A. Hallucinations, dreaming, and frequent dozing in Parkinson disease: impact of right-hemisphere neural networks. Cogn Behav Neurol. 2008 Sep; 21(3):143-9.View Related Profiles.

Cronin-Golomb, Alice
McNamara, Patrick
Durso, Raymon
Auerbach, Sanford

PMID: 18797256; PMCID: PMC2630478; DOI: 10.1097/WNN.0b013e318185e698;

McNamara P, Durso R, Harris E. Alterations of the sense of self and personality in Parkinson's disease. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2008 Jan; 23(1):79-84.View Related Profiles.

McNamara, Patrick
Durso, Raymon

PMID: 17562520

McNamara P, Durso R, Harris E. "Machiavellianism" and frontal dysfunction: evidence from Parkinson's disease. Cogn Neuropsychiatry. 2007 Jul; 12(4):285-300.View Related Profiles.

McNamara, Patrick
Durso, Raymon

PMID: 17558639

McNamara P, Durso R, Harris E. Life goals of patients with Parkinson's disease: A pilot study on correlations with mood and cognitive functions. Clin Rehabil. 2006 Sep; 20(9):818-26.View Related Profiles.

McNamara, Patrick
Durso, Raymon

PMID: 17005505

McNamara P, Durso R, Brown A. Religiosity in patients with Parkinson's disease. Neuropsychiatr Dis Treat. 2006 Sep; 2(3):341-8.View Related Profiles.

McNamara, Patrick
Durso, Raymon

PMID: 19412480; PMCID: PMC2671825; DOI: 10.2147/nedt.2006.2.3.341;

McNamara P, Durso R. Neuropharmacological treatment of mental dysfunction in Parkinson's disease. Behav Neurol. 2006; 17(1):43-51.View Related Profiles.

McNamara, Patrick
Durso, Raymon

PMID: 16720959; PMCID: PMC5471533; DOI: 10.1155/2006/138263;

Wegelin J, McNamara P, Durso R, Brown A, McLaren D. Correlates of excessive daytime sleepiness in Parkinson's disease. Parkinsonism Relat Disord. 2005 Nov; 11(7):441-8.View Related Profiles.

McNamara, Patrick
Durso, Raymon

PMID: 16154796

Michaelides C, Thakore-James M, Durso R. Reversible withdrawal dyskinesia associated with quetiapine. Mov Disord. 2005 Jun; 20(6):769-70.View Related Profiles.

Thakore-James, Manisha
Durso, Raymon

PMID: 15747370

McNamara P, Durso R, Brown A. Relation of "Sense Of Self" to executive function performance in Parkinson's disease. Cogn Behav Neurol. 2003 Sep; 16(3):139-48.View Related Profiles.

McNamara, Patrick
Durso, Raymon

PMID: 14501535

McNamara P, Durso R, Brown A, Lynch A. Counterfactual cognitive deficit in persons with Parkinson's disease. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2003 Aug; 74(8):1065-70.View Related Profiles.

McNamara, Patrick
Durso, Raymon

PMID: 12876235; PMCID: PMC1738590

McNamara P, Durso R. Pragmatic communication skills in patients with Parkinson's disease. Brain Lang. 2003 Mar; 84(3):414-23.View Related Profiles.

McNamara, Patrick
Durso, Raymon

PMID: 12662979

Durso R, Evans JE, Josephs E, Szabo G, Evans B, Fernandez HH, Browne TR. Variable absorption of carbidopa affects both peripheral and central levodopa metabolism. J Clin Pharmacol. 2000 Aug; 40(8):854-60.View Related Profiles.

Evans, Jacob
Durso, Raymon

PMID: 10934669

Fernandez HH, Durso R. Clozapine for dopaminergic-induced paraphilias in Parkinson's disease. Mov Disord. 1998 May; 13(3):597-8. PMID: 9613761

Durso R, Evans JE, Josephs E, Szabo GK, Evans BA, Handler JS, Jennings D, Browne TR. Central levodopa metabolism in Parkinson's disease after administration of stable isotope-labeled levodopa. Ann Neurol. 1997 Sep; 42(3):300-4.View Related Profiles.

Evans, Jacob
Durso, Raymon

PMID: 9307250

Krengel M, White RF, Diamond R, Letz R, Cyrus P, Durso R. A comparison of NES2 and traditional neuropsychological tests in a neurologic patient sample. Neurotoxicol Teratol. 1996 Jul-Aug; 18(4):435-9.View Related Profiles.

Krengel, Maxine
Durso, Raymon
White, Roberta

PMID: 8866535

McNamara P, Krueger M, O'Quin K, Clark J, Durso R. Grammaticality judgments and sentence comprehension in Parkinson's disease: a comparison with Broca's aphasia. Int J Neurosci. 1996 Jul; 86(1-2):151-66.View Related Profiles.

McNamara, Patrick
Durso, Raymon

PMID: 8828068

Folkerth RD, Durso R. Survival and proliferation of nonneural tissues, with obstruction of cerebral ventricles, in a parkinsonian patient treated with fetal allografts. Neurology. 1996 May; 46(5):1219-25. PMID: 8628456

Durso R, Isaac K, Perry L, Saint-Hilaire M, Feldman RG. Age influences magnitude but not duration of response to levodopa. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 1993 Jan; 56(1):65-8.View Related Profiles.

Saint-Hilaire, Marie-Helene
Durso, Raymon

PMID: 8429325; PMCID: PMC1014768

McNamara P, Obler LK, Au R, Durso R, Albert ML. Speech monitoring skills in Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and normal aging. Brain Lang. 1992 Jan; 42(1):38-51.View Related Profiles.

Obler, Loraine
McNamara, Patrick
Durso, Raymon
Au, Rhoda

PMID: 1547468

McNamara P, Durso R. Reversible pathologic jealousy (Othello syndrome) associated with amantadine. J Geriatr Psychiatry Neurol. 1991 Jul-Sep; 4(3):157-9.View Related Profiles.

McNamara, Patrick
Durso, Raymon

PMID: 1953968

Wolfe N, Katz DI, Albert ML, Almozlino A, Durso R, Smith MC, Volicer L. Neuropsychological profile linked to low dopamine: in Alzheimer's disease, major depression, and Parkinson's disease. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 1990 Oct; 53(10):915-7.View Related Profiles.

Katz, Douglas
Durso, Raymon

PMID: 2266376; PMCID: PMC488258

Fazzini E, Durso R, Davoudi H, Szabo GK, Albert ML. GM1 gangliosides alter acute MPTP-induced behavioral and neurochemical toxicity in mice. J Neurol Sci. 1990 Oct; 99(1):59-68. PMID: 2250172

Durso R, Szabo G, Davoudi H, Feldman RG. Magnitude of response to levodopa in Parkinson disease as it relates to peripheral and central measurements of levodopa and associated metabolites. Clin Neuropharmacol. 1989 Oct; 12(5):384-92. PMID: 2611763

Rainero I, Kaye JA, May C, Durso R, Katz DI, Albert ML, Wolfe N, Pinessi L, Friedland RP, Rapoport SI. Alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormonelike immunoreactivity is increased in cerebrospinal fluid of patients with Parkinson's disease. Arch Neurol. 1988 Nov; 45(11):1224-7.View Related Profiles.

Katz, Douglas
Durso, Raymon

PMID: 2847695

Szabo GK, Davoudi H, Durso R. High-performance liquid chromatographic method for measuring homovanillic acid in cerebrospinal fluid using electrochemical detection with internal standardization. J Chromatogr. 1988 Aug 19; 430(1):112-7. PMID: 3215947

Durso R, Tamminga CA, Ruggeri S, Denaro A, Kuo S, Chase TN. Twenty-four hour plasma levels of growth hormone and prolactin in Huntington's disease. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 1983 Dec; 46(12):1134-7. PMID: 6229607

LeWitt PA, Gopinathan G, Ward CD, Sanes JN, Dambrosia JM, Durso R, Calne DB. Lisuride versus bromocriptine treatment in Parkinson disease: a double-blind study. Neurology. 1982 Jan; 32(1):69-72. PMID: 7033825

Lieberman A, Kupersmith M, Neophytides A, Casson I, Durso R, Foo SH, Khayali M, Bear G, Goldstein M. Long-term efficacy of bromocriptine in Parkinson disease. Neurology. 1980 May; 30(5):518-23. PMID: 6768003

Lieberman AN, Kupersmith M, Neophytides A, Gopinathan G, Casson I, Durso R, Foo SH, Khayali M, Tartaro T, Goldstein M. Bromocriptine in Parkinson's disease: report on 106 patients treated for up to 5 years. Adv Biochem Psychopharmacol. 1980; 23:245-53. PMID: 7395614

Lieberman A, Neophytides A, Kupersmith M, Casson I, Durso R, Foo SH, Khayali M, Tartaro T, Goldstein M. Treatment of Parkinson's disease with dopamine agonists: a review. Am J Med Sci. 1979; 278(1):65-76. PMID: 39452

This graph shows the total number of publications by year, by first, middle/unknown, or last author.

Bar chart showing 44 publications over 27 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 1996 and 2003 and 2006 and 2010 and 2016

Bar chart showing 44 publications over 27 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 1996 and 2003 and 2006 and 2010 and 2016

Year	Publications
1980	2
1982	1
1983	1
1988	2
1989	1
1990	2
1991	1
1992	1
1993	1
1996	3
1997	1
1998	1
2000	1
2003	3
2005	2
2006	3
2007	1
2008	2
2009	2
2010	3
2011	2
2012	1
2013	1
2014	1
2015	1
2016	3
2023	1

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