Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders

Research Research programs Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders

Our mission

We aim to reduce the incidence, progression and burden of Parkinson’s disease (PD) and other neurological movement disorders.

Goals

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Goals

To lay the foundations for a 0% growth in the worldwide incidence of PD.
To contribute to development of the first disease-modifying strategy to slow down disease progression, either in the preclinical or clinical stage, for PD and specific other movement disorders.

Research groups contributing to this research program

Cognitive neuropsychiatry

Roshan Cools's research group aims to unravel the cortico-striatal computations and dynamics by which behavioral control strategies are adaptively tuned to our changing environment, in mental health and disease.

Gender in primary and transmural care

Sabine Oertelt-Prigione's research group focuses on the integrating sex and gender dimensions into research, clinical care and teaching.

Motor control and rehabilitation

Vivian Weerdesteyn's research group aims to elucidate the mechanistic underpinnings of impaired balance and gait in people with neurological conditions, and to develop novel interventions to ameliorate these problems.

Spokesperson(s) for this research program

Spokesperson

prof. dr. Bas Bloem

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