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Claudia Trenkwalder

Claudia Trenkwalder

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Best Female Scientists
2025

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Best Female Scientists

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125
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54132
World Ranking
443
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20

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Citations
58443
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  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award

Overview

Claudia Trenkwalder is affiliated with the University of Göttingen in Germany and has made contributions primarily in the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience. Their research covers a broad range of topics, including Restless Legs Syndrome Research, Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments, Sleep and Wakefulness Research, Neurological disorders and treatments, Dysphagia Assessment and Management, Neurological diseases and metabolism, and Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications.

The frequent co-authors they have collaborated with include Michael Bartl, Friederike Sixel-Döring, Günter U. Höglinger, Maria-Lucia Muntean, and Gabriele Adelsberger.

They have contributed to various publication venues, with multiple articles appearing in Somnologie - Schlafforschung und Schlafmedizin, Journal of Neurology, Der Nervenarzt, European Journal of Neurology, and Journal of Neural Transmission.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Claudia Trenkwalder include:

  • Socioeconomic impact of restless legs syndrome and inadequate restless legs syndrome management across European settings (2020, European Journal of Neurology)
  • Mastering nocturnal jigsaws in Parkinson's disease: a dusk-to-dawn review of night-time symptoms (2020, Journal of Neural Transmission)
  • Definition and diagnosis of Parkinson's disease: guideline "Parkinson's disease" of the German Society of Neurology (2024, Journal of Neurology)
  • A Short Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Quality of Life Scale (2024, Movement Disorders)
  • Rethinking clinical trials in restless legs syndrome: A roadmap (2024, Sleep Medicine Reviews)

In addition to journal articles, Claudia Trenkwalder has published a book titled Gesundheit - Innovation - New Work in 2020 under Schäffer-Poeschel eBooks.

Best Publications

  • Restless legs syndrome: diagnostic criteria, special considerations, and epidemiology. A report from the restless legs syndrome diagnosis and epidemiology workshop at the National Institutes of Health.

    Richard P Allen;Daniel Picchietti;Wayne A Hening;Claudia Trenkwalder

  • Validation of the International Restless Legs Syndrome Study Group rating scale for restless legs syndrome

    Jun Horiguchi;Magdolna Hornyak;Ulrich Voderholzer;Meir Kryger

  • Restless legs syndrome/Willis-Ekbom disease diagnostic criteria: updated International Restless Legs Syndrome Study Group (IRLSSG) consensus criteria--history, rationale, description, and significance.

    Richard P. Allen;Daniel L. Picchietti;Diego Garcia-Borreguero;William G. Ondo

  • Toward a better definition of the restless legs syndrome

    Arthur S. Walters;Michael S. Aldrich;Richard Allen;Sonia Ancoli‐Israel

  • A Mutation in VPS35, Encoding a Subunit of the Retromer Complex, Causes Late-Onset Parkinson Disease

    Alexander Zimprich;Anna Benet-Pagès;Walter Struhal;Elisabeth Graf

  • Sex and the risk of restless legs syndrome in the general population.

    Klaus Berger;Jan Luedemann;Claudia Trenkwalder;Ulrich John

  • Risk and predictors of dementia and parkinsonism in idiopathic REM sleep behaviour disorder: a multicentre study

    Ronald B Postuma;Alex Iranzo;Michele Hu;Birgit Högl

  • The Parkinson’s disease sleep scale: a new instrument for assessing sleep and nocturnal disability in Parkinson’s disease

    K. R. Chaudhuri;S. Pal;A. DiMarco;C. Whately-Smith

  • Genome-wide association study of restless legs syndrome identifies common variants in three genomic regions

    Juliane Winkelmann;Barbara Schormair;Peter Lichtner;Stephan Ripke

  • α-Synuclein and tau concentrations in cerebrospinal fluid of patients presenting with parkinsonism: a cohort study

    Brit Mollenhauer;Brit Mollenhauer;Joseph J Locascio;Walter Schulz-Schaeffer;Friederike Sixel-Döring

  • Identification of common variants influencing risk of the tauopathy progressive supranuclear palsy

    Günter U. Höglinger;Nadine M. Melhem;Dennis W. Dickson;Patrick M A Sleiman

  • The Parkinson's progression markers initiative (PPMI): establishing a PD biomarker cohort

    Kenneth Marek;Sohini Chowdhury;Andrew Siderowf;Shirley Lasch

  • Rotigotine effects on early morning motor function and sleep in Parkinson's disease: A double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study (RECOVER)

    Claudia Trenkwalder;Bryan Kies;Monika Rudzinska;Jennifer Fine

  • The restless legs syndrome

    Claudia Trenkwalder;Walter Paulus;Arthur S Walters

  • The nasal and gut microbiome in Parkinson's disease and idiopathic rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder

    Anna Heintz-Buschart;Urvashi Pandey;Tamara Wicke;Friederike Sixel-Döring

  • Clinical characteristics and frequency of the hereditary restless legs syndrome in a population of 300 patients.

    Juliane Winkelmann;Thomas C. Wetter;Victor Collado-Seidel;Thomas Gasser

  • Direct quantification of CSF α-synuclein by ELISA and first cross-sectional study in patients with neurodegeneration

    Brit Mollenhauer;Valerie Cullen;Ilana Kahn;Bryan Krastins

  • 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

  • To what degree the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) correctly identifies DSM-IV disorders? : Testing validity issues in a clinical sample.

    V. Reed;F. Gander;H. Pfister;A. Steiger

  • Associated factors for REM sleep behavior disorder in Parkinson disease.

    Friederike Sixel-Döring;Ellen Trautmann;Brit Mollenhauer;Claudia Trenkwalder

Frequent Co-Authors

Brit Mollenhauer
Brit Mollenhauer University of Göttingen
Birgit Högl
Birgit Högl Innsbruck Medical University
Wolfgang H. Oertel
Wolfgang H. Oertel Philipp University of Marburg
Juliane Winkelmann
Juliane Winkelmann Technical University of Munich
Walter Paulus
Walter Paulus University of Göttingen
Karin Stiasny-Kolster
Karin Stiasny-Kolster Philipp University of Marburg
Werner Poewe
Werner Poewe Innsbruck Medical University
Richard P. Allen
Richard P. Allen Johns Hopkins University
Diego Garcia-Borreguero
Diego Garcia-Borreguero Instituto de Investigaciones del Sueño
Peter Lichtner
Peter Lichtner Technical University of Munich

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