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Alice Nieuwboer

Alice Nieuwboer

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Medicine

D-Index
90
Citations
29531
World Ranking
12213
National Ranking
143

Overview

Alice Nieuwboer is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium and has an extensive research portfolio focused primarily on medicine and health professions. Their scholarly activity spans multiple subfields including neurology, physical therapy, sports therapy and rehabilitation, psychiatry and mental health, biomedical engineering, and cognitive neuroscience.

The researcher has contributed significantly to topics related to balance, gait, and falls prevention, Parkinson's disease mechanisms and treatments, cerebral palsy and movement disorders, muscle activation and electromyography studies, stroke rehabilitation and recovery, neurological disorders and treatments, and transcranial magnetic stimulation studies.

Recent notable papers include:

  • World guidelines for falls prevention and management for older adults: a global initiative, 2022, Age and Ageing
  • Evaluation of Clinical Practice Guidelines on Fall Prevention and Management for Older Adults, 2021, JAMA Network Open
  • Virtual reality in research and rehabilitation of gait and balance in Parkinson disease, 2020, Nature Reviews Neurology
  • Barriers and Motivators to Engage in Exercise for Persons with Parkinson's Disease, 2020, Journal of Parkinson s Disease
  • New horizons in falls prevention and management for older adults: a global initiative, 2021, Age and Ageing

Frequent co-authors in Nieuwboer's publications include Pieter Ginis, Moran Gilat, Nicholas D'Cruz, Jeffrey M. Hausdorff, and Lynn Rochester.

Nieuwboer has published regularly in several journal venues, with the highest numbers appearing in Movement Disorders, Journal of Parkinson s Disease, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Movement Disorders Clinical Practice, and Journal of Neurology.

Best Publications

  • Freezing of gait: Moving forward on a mysterious clinical phenomenon

    John G Nutt;Bastiaan R Bloem;Nir Giladi;Mark Hallett

  • Cueing training in the home improves gait-related mobility in Parkinson’s disease: the RESCUE trial

    A. Nieuwboer;G. J. Kwakkel;L. Rochester;D. Jones

  • Reliability of the new freezing of gait questionnaire: Agreement between patients with Parkinson's disease and their carers

    Alice Nieuwboer;Lynn Rochester;Talia Herman;Wim Vandenberghe

  • Technology in Parkinson's disease: Challenges and opportunities.

    Alberto J. Espay;Paolo Bonato;Fatta B. Nahab;Walter Maetzler

  • The Trunk Impairment Scale: a new tool to measure motor impairment of the trunk after stroke:

    G Verheyden;A Nieuwboer;J Mertin;R Preger

  • Effects of external rhythmical cueing on gait in patients with Parkinson's disease: a systematic review

    I Lim;E van Wegen;C de Goede;M Deutekom

  • Trunk performance after stroke and the relationship with balance, gait and functional ability

    Geert Verheyden;Luc Vereeck;Steven Truijen;Mark Troch

  • Quantitative gait analysis in Parkinson's disease: comparison with a healthy control group.

    Olumide Sofuwa;Olumide Sofuwa;Alice Nieuwboer;Kaat Desloovere;Anne-Marie Willems

  • Addition of a non-immersive virtual reality component to treadmill training to reduce fall risk in older adults (V-TIME): a randomised controlled trial

    Anat Mirelman;Anat Mirelman;Lynn Rochester;Inbal Maidan;Silvia Del Din

  • Understanding and treating freezing of gait in parkinsonism, proposed working definition, and setting the stage.

    Nir Giladi;Alice Nieuwboer

  • Summary of the recommendations of the EFNS/MDS-ES review on therapeutic management of Parkinson's disease

    Joaquim J Ferreira;R. Katzenschlager;B. R. Bloem;U. Bonuccelli

  • Attending to the task: interference effects of functional tasks on walking in Parkinson's disease and the roles of cognition, depression, fatigue, and balance.

    Lynn Rochester;Victoria Hetherington;Diana Jones;Alice Nieuwboer

  • Motor learning in Parkinson's disease: limitations and potential for rehabilitation

    Alice Nieuwboer;Lynn Rochester;Liesbeth Müncks;Stephan P. Swinnen

  • Freezing of gait in Parkinson's disease: the impact of dual-tasking and turning.

    Joke Spildooren;Sarah Vercruysse;Kaat Desloovere;Wim Vandenberghe

  • Age-related differences in attentional cost associated with postural dual tasks: increased recruitment of generic cognitive resources in older adults.

    Matthieu P. Boisgontier;Iseult A.M. Beets;Jacques Duysens;Alice Nieuwboer

  • Abnormalities of the spatiotemporal characteristics of gait at the onset of freezing in Parkinson's disease

    Alice Nieuwboer;René Dom;Willy De Weerdt;Kaat Desloovere

  • Virtual reality for rehabilitation in Parkinson's disease

    Kim Dockx;Esther M.J. Bekkers;Veerle Van den Bergh;Pieter Ginis

  • The effect of external rhythmic cues (auditory and visual) on walking during a functional task in homes of people with Parkinson's disease.

    Lynn Rochester;Victoria Hetherington;Diana Jones;Alice Nieuwboer

  • Measurement instruments to assess posture, gait, and balance in Parkinson's disease: Critique and recommendations

    Bastiaan R. Bloem;Johan Marinus;Quincy Almeida;Lee Dibble

  • Time course of trunk, arm, leg, and functional recovery after ischemic stroke.

    Geert Verheyden;Alice Nieuwboer;Liesbet De Wit;Vincent Thijs

Frequent Co-Authors

Lynn Rochester
Lynn Rochester Newcastle University
Bastiaan R. Bloem
Bastiaan R. Bloem Radboud University
Jeffrey M. Hausdorff
Jeffrey M. Hausdorff Rush University Medical Center
Gert Kwakkel
Gert Kwakkel University of Amsterdam
Nir Giladi
Nir Giladi Tel Aviv University
Werner Helsen
Werner Helsen KU Leuven
Bouwien C. M. Smits-Engelsman
Bouwien C. M. Smits-Engelsman North-West University
Derek K. Jones
Derek K. Jones Cardiff University

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