About
About Dr. Sarah Lidstone
Movement disorders neurologist, researcher, educator, and advocate for integrated neurological care.
Dr. Lidstone is a movement disorders neurologist and the Director of the Integrated Movement Disorders Program at the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute. She is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at the University of Toronto.
Dr. Lidstone's research focuses on developing and testing rehabilitation therapies using the integration of physical and mental health. Her work brings together movement disorders, functional neurological disorder, rehabilitation, education, and patient experience.
She recently gave the TEDx talk "It's All in Your Head," about mind-body integration in medicine.
About
- Movement disorders neurologist.
- Director, Integrated Movement Disorders Program.
- Assistant Professor of Neurology, University of Toronto.
- Co-Chair, Functional Neurological Disorders Society Education Committee.
- Researcher focused on integrated physical and mental health rehabilitation.
Education & Training
- Neurology residency, University of Toronto.
- Movement disorders fellowship, University of Toronto.
- PhD in Neuroscience, University of British Columbia, studying the placebo effect in Parkinson's disease.
Clinical and Research Interests
A practice of careful integration.
Approach
Evidence-led compassion is not soft. It is disciplined care.
Dr. Lidstone's approach is scientifically grounded, non-dismissive, and oriented toward practical understanding: symptoms are real, patients are partners, and recovery requires more than one silo.
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