Goals

We focus on a well-defined, limited set of conditions: Parkinson’s disease; atypical parkinsonism; rare hereditary movement disorders, in particular cerebellar ataxia and hereditary spastic paraplegia; tremors; and gait and balance disorders. Our goals are:

  • Identify pathways for primary, secondary and tertiary prevention.
  • Based on these insights: develop and evaluate disease-modifying interventions.
  • Study novel symptomatic therapies (both pharmacological as and non-pharmacological).
  • Develop novel diagnostic and progression biomarkers, including digital, neurochemical and neuroimaging techniques.


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Research Research programs Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders

Our purpose

We aim to develop and evaluate novel approaches to prevent the development of neurological movement disorders, and to improve the quality of life of persons affected by these disorders.

Goals

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Research groups contributing to this research program

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.

Neurological gait impairments

Jorik Nonnekes's research group focus on neurological gait impairments. The aim to improve the quality of life of affected individuals is the drive behind their work.

Spokesperson(s) for this research program

Spokesperson

prof. dr. Bas Bloem

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