Cedars-Sinai Experts Available to Discuss Rare Neuro Diseases Like PSP

Cedars-Sinai experts are available to discuss the complex neurodegenerative disorder with which civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson was diagnosed in 2025.

Jackson, who witnessed the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and became a major force in the civil rights movement, died Tuesday. He was 84.

The rare movement disorder called progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) affects parts of the brain that control the body's ability to walk and coordinate movement. Cedars-Sinai is a designated CurePSP Center of Care and has multidisciplinary clinics for patients with PSP and other movement disorders.

"PSP is similar to Parkinson's disease but is rarer," said Yvette Bordelon, MD, PhD , who is part of the Movement Disorders Division in the Cedars-Sinai Department of Neurology, and is co-director of the Cedars-Sinai CurePSP Center of Care.

Cedars-Sinai experts available for interviews:

• Yvette Bordelon, MD, PhD , co-director of the Cedars-Sinai CurePSP Center of Care.
• Sarah Kremen, MD , director of the Neurobehavior Program at Cedars-Sinai and co-director of the Cedars-Sinai CurePSP Center of Care.
• Michele Tagliati, MD , vice chair of the Department of Neurology and director of the Movement Disorders Division at Cedars-Sinai.

To arrange interviews, contact Kelsie Sandoval at 562-631-1169 or [email protected]