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Overview

Daniela Berg is affiliated with the University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on medicine with a specialization in neurology, psychiatric and mental health issues, physiology, molecular biology, and cognitive neuroscience.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Neurological disorders and treatments
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Neurological diseases and metabolism
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Botulinum Toxin and Related Neurological Disorders
  • Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases

Daniela Berg has published extensively in several scientific journals. The most frequent venues for their publications include:

  • Movement Disorders Clinical Practice
  • Movement Disorders
  • Journal of Parkinson's Disease
  • Journal of Neurology
  • npj Parkinson's Disease

A selection of recent papers authored by Daniela Berg includes:

  • Prodromal Parkinson disease subtypes - key to understanding heterogeneity, 2021, Nature Reviews Neurology
  • Brain-first versus body-first Parkinson's disease: a multimodal imaging case-control study, 2020, Brain
  • The Movement Disorder Society Criteria for the Diagnosis of Multiple System Atrophy, 2022, Movement Disorders
  • A biological classification of Parkinson's disease: the SynNeurGe research diagnostic criteria, 2024, The Lancet Neurology
  • Serum neuronal exosomes predict and differentiate Parkinson's disease from atypical parkinsonism, 2020, Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry

Collaborations have been a significant part of their research activities. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Walter Maetzler
  • Günther Deuschl
  • Anthony E. Lang
  • Kathrin Brockmann
  • Eva Schaeffer

Best Publications

  • MDS clinical diagnostic criteria for Parkinson's disease

    Ronald B. Postuma;Daniela Berg;Matthew Stern;Werner Poewe

  • Multicenter Analysis of Glucocerebrosidase Mutations in Parkinson's Disease

    Ellen Sidransky;Michael A. Nalls;Jan O. Aasly;Judith Aharon-Peretz

  • Genome-wide association study reveals genetic risk underlying Parkinson's disease

    Javier Simón-Sánchez;Claudia Schulte;Jose M Bras;Jose M Bras;Manu Sharma

  • The Parkinson Progression Marker Initiative (PPMI)

    Kenneth Marek;Danna Jennings;Shirley Lasch;Andrew Siderowf

  • MDS research criteria for prodromal Parkinson's disease

    Daniela Berg;Ronald B. Postuma;Charles H. Adler;Bastiaan R. Bloem

  • Past, present, and future of Parkinson's disease: A special essay on the 200th Anniversary of the Shaking Palsy

    J.A. Obeso;M. Stamelou;M. Stamelou;C.G. Goetz;W. Poewe

  • Loss of function mutations in the gene encoding Omi/HtrA2 in Parkinson's disease

    Karsten M. Strauss;L. Miguel Martins;Helene Plun-Favreau;Frank P. Marx

  • Brain-first versus body-first Parkinson’s disease: a multimodal imaging case-control study

    Jacob Horsager;Katrine B Andersen;Karoline Knudsen;Casper Skjærbæk

  • 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

  • Loss-of-Function of Human PINK1 Results in Mitochondrial Pathology and Can Be Rescued by Parkin

    Nicole Exner;Bettina Treske;Dominik Paquet;Kira Holmström

  • EFNS/MDS‐ES recommendations for the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease

    Alfredo Berardelli;Gregor Wenning;Angelo Antonini;Daniela Berg

  • Comprehensive research synopsis and systematic meta-analyses in Parkinson's disease genetics: the PDGene database.

    Christina M. Lill;Johannes T. Roehr;Johannes T. Roehr;Matthew B. McQueen;Fotini K. Kavvoura;Fotini K. Kavvoura;Fotini K. Kavvoura

  • 14-3-3 proteins in the nervous system

    Daniela Berg;Carsten Holzmann;Olaf Riess

  • Genetic Correction of a LRRK2 Mutation in Human iPSCs Links Parkinsonian Neurodegeneration to ERK-Dependent Changes in Gene Expression

    Peter Reinhardt;Benjamin Schmid;Lena F. Burbulla;David C. Schöndorf

  • Mutations in the gene encoding epsilon-sarcoglycan cause myoclonus-dystonia syndrome.

    Alexander Zimprich;Monika Grabowski;Friedrich Asmus;Markus Naumann

  • Echogenicity of the substantia nigra: association with increased iron content and marker for susceptibility to nigrostriatal injury.

    Daniela Berg;Wolfgang Roggendorf;Ute Schröder;Rüdiger Klein

  • Update of the MDS research criteria for prodromal Parkinson's disease.

    Sebastian Heinzel;Daniela Berg;Daniela Berg;Thomas Gasser;Honglei Chen

  • Time to redefine PD? Introductory statement of the MDS Task Force on the definition of Parkinson's disease

    Daniela Berg;Ronald B. Postuma;Bastiaan Bloem;Piu Chan

  • iPSC-derived neurons from GBA1-associated Parkinson’s disease patients show autophagic defects and impaired calcium homeostasis

    David C. Schöndorf;Massimo Aureli;Fiona E. McAllister;Christopher J. Hindley

  • Brain iron pathways and their relevance to Parkinson's disease.

    D Berg;M. Gerlach;M. B. H. Youdim;K. L. Double

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Gasser
Thomas Gasser University of Tübingen
Rejko Krüger
Rejko Krüger University of Luxembourg
Günther Deuschl
Günther Deuschl Kiel University
Olaf Riess
Olaf Riess University of Tübingen
Werner Poewe
Werner Poewe Innsbruck Medical University
Ronald B. Postuma
Ronald B. Postuma McGill University
Wolfgang H. Oertel
Wolfgang H. Oertel Philipp University of Marburg
Ludger Schöls
Ludger Schöls University of Tübingen
Brit Mollenhauer
Brit Mollenhauer University of Göttingen
Christine Klein
Christine Klein University of Lübeck

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