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Virtual reality for gait training: can it induce motor learning to enhance complex walking and reduce fall risk in patients with Parkinson's disease?Anat Mirelman
Movement Disorders Unit, Department of Neurology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 66:234-40. 2011..We hypothesized that VR may be applied to address the multifaceted deficits associated with fall risk in PD...
V-TIME: a treadmill training program augmented by virtual reality to decrease fall risk in older adults: study design of a randomized controlled trialAnat Mirelman
Department of Neurology, Laboratory for Gait Analysis and Neurodynamics, Movement Disorders Unit, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, 6 Weizmann Street, Tel Aviv 64239, Israel
BMC Neurol 13:15. 2013..The proposed randomized controlled trial will evaluate the effects of treadmill training augmented with virtual reality on fall risk...- Audio-biofeedback training for posture and balance in patients with Parkinson's diseaseAnat Mirelman
Laboratory for Gait and Neurodynamics, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
J Neuroeng Rehabil 8:35. 2011..Based on the observation that postural control improved in patients with vestibular dysfunction after audio-biofeedback training, we tested the feasibility and effects of this training modality in patients with PD... - Gait alterations in healthy carriers of the LRRK2 G2019S mutationAnat Mirelman
Movement Disorders Unit, Department of NeurologyTel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
Ann Neurol 69:193-7. 2011..These findings support the possibility of previously unidentified, presymptomatic motor changes among relatives who have an increased risk of developing PD... - Effects of virtual reality training on gait biomechanics of individuals post-strokeAnat Mirelman
Gait and Neurodynamics Laboratory, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel
Gait Posture 31:433-7. 2010..To evaluate gait biomechanics after training with a virtual reality (VR) system and to elucidate underlying mechanisms that contributed to the observed functional improvement in gait speed and distance... - Lower cognitive performance in healthy G2019S LRRK2 mutation carriersAvner Thaler
Movement Disorders Unit, Department of Neurology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel
Neurology 79:1027-32. 2012..To assess cognitive abilities of healthy first-degree relatives of Ashkenazi patients with Parkinson disease (PD), carriers of the G2019S mutation in the LRRK2 gene... - The age at motor symptoms onset in LRRK2-associated Parkinson's disease is affected by a variation in the MAPT locus: a possible interactionZiv Gan-Or
The Genetic Institute, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, 6 Weizmann Street, Tel Aviv, 64239, Israel
J Mol Neurosci 46:541-4. 2012..7 ± 11.6) among carriers of the C/C genotype (p = 0.025). Our results further support a possible interaction between genetic factors in the MAPT region and the LRRK2 gene, which influence the clinical course of PD patients... - Executive function and falls in older adults: new findings from a five-year prospective study link fall risk to cognitionAnat Mirelman
Movement Disorders Unit, Department of Neurology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
PLoS ONE 7:e40297. 2012..The present results link falls among older adults to cognition, indicating that screening EF will likely enhance fall risk assessment, and that treatment of EF may reduce fall risk... - Association of sequence alterations in the putative promoter of RAB7L1 with a reduced parkinson disease riskZiv Gan-Or
Genetic Institute, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, 6 Weizmann St, Tel Aviv 64239, Israel
Arch Neurol 69:105-10. 2012.... - Executive control deficits as a prodrome to falls in healthy older adults: a prospective study linking thinking, walking, and fallingTalia Herman
Movement Disorders Unit, Department of Neurology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 65:1086-92. 2010..Indeed, the effects of dual tasking (DT) on gait, a challenge to executive control, are more exaggerated in persons with a history of falls. Prospective evidence is, however, lacking... - Fighting the risk of developing Parkinson's disease; clinical counseling for first degree relatives of patients with Parkinson's diseaseNir Giladi
Movement Disorders Unit, Department of Neurology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
J Neurol Sci 310:17-20. 2011..In Israel, there is a large group of Ashkenazi Jews at risk of developing PD due to high frequency of PD associated mutations in 2 genes (GBA and LRRK2)... - How does explicit prioritization alter walking during dual-task performance? Effects of age and sex on gait speed and variabilityGalit Yogev-Seligmann
Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Phys Ther 90:177-86. 2010..Previous studies have demonstrated that the performance of a secondary task during walking alters gait... - Heart rate changes during freezing of gait in patients with Parkinson's diseaseInbal Maidan
Movement Disorders Unit, Department of Neurology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
Mov Disord 25:2346-54. 2010..Although further studies are needed to evaluate these associations, the current results provide experimental evidence linking impaired motor blockades to autonomic nervous system function among patients with PD... - Effects of training with a robot-virtual reality system compared with a robot alone on the gait of individuals after strokeAnat Mirelman
Gait and Neurodynamics Lab, Tel Aviv Medical Center, 6 Weizmann St, Tel Aviv, Israel
Stroke 40:169-74. 2009..The purpose of this study was to determine whether the transfer of training of LE movements to locomotion was greater using a virtual environment coupled with a robot or with the robot alone... - Appreciation of humor is decreased among patients with Parkinson's diseaseAvner Thaler
Movement Disorders Unit, Department of Neurology, Tel Aviv Medical Center, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, 6 Weizman Street, Tel Aviv 64239, Israel
Parkinsonism Relat Disord 18:144-8. 2012..To test whether appreciation of humor might be a non-motor function affected by Parkinson's disease (PD)... - When does walking alter thinking? Age and task associated findingsJennifer M Srygley
Movement Disorders Unit, Department of Neurology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
Brain Res 1253:92-9. 2009..Age-associated declines in EF apparently contribute to the difference in dual tasking abilities during walking between young and older adults...