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Fay B. Horak is affiliated with Oregon Health & Science University in the United States. Their research spans the fields of Medicine and Health Professions, with significant contributions to Neurology, Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Biomedical Engineering.

The primary focus of their work includes Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention, Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments, Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders, Neurological Disorders and Treatments, Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases, Cancer Survivorship and Care, and Mitochondrial Function and Pathology.

Among recent publications are:

  • Measuring freezing of gait during daily-life: an open-source, wearable sensors approach, 2021, Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation
  • A Randomized, Controlled Trial of Exercise for Parkinsonian Individuals With Freezing of Gait, 2020, Movement Disorders
  • Quantity and quality of gait and turning in people with multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease and matched controls during daily living, 2020, Journal of Neurology
  • Digital Biomarkers of Mobility in Parkinson's Disease During Daily Living, 2020, Journal of Parkinson's Disease
  • Laboratory versus daily life gait characteristics in patients with multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, and matched controls, 2020, Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated extensively with Horak include:

  • Martina Mancini
  • Patricia Carlson-Kuhta
  • Vrutangkumar V. Shah
  • Mahmoud El-Gohary
  • John G. Nutt

Horak's work is published consistently in venues such as:

  • Movement Disorders
  • Gait & Posture
  • Frontiers in Neurology
  • Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • npj Parkinson's Disease

Best Publications

  • Postural Orientation and Equilibrium: What Do We Need to Know About Neural Control of Balance to Prevent Falls?

    Fay B. Horak

  • Central programming of postural movements: adaptation to altered support-surface configurations.

    F. B. Horak;L. M. Nashner

  • Postural Orientation and Equilibrium

    Fay B. Horak;Jane M. Macpherson

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

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

  • Components of postural dyscontrol in the elderly: a review.

    Fay B. Horak;Charlotte L. Shupert;Alar Mirka

  • Assessing the Influence of Sensory Interaction on Balance

    Anne Shumway-Cook;Fay Bahling Horak

  • Postural strategies associated with somatosensory and vestibular loss.

    F. B. Horak;L. M. Nashner;H. C. Diener

  • The Balance Evaluation Systems Test (BESTest) to Differentiate Balance Deficits

    Fay B Horak;Diane M Wrisley;James Frank

  • Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson Disease: An Expert Consensus and Review of Key Issues

    Jeff M. Bronstein;Michele Tagliati;Ron L. Alterman;Andres M. Lozano

  • USING PSYCHOMETRIC TECHNIQUES TO IMPROVE THE BALANCE EVALUATION SYSTEMS TEST: THE MINI-BESTEST

    Franco Franchignoni;Fay Horak;Marco Godi;Antonio Nardone

  • Clinical Measurement of Postural Control in Adults

    Fay B Horak

  • Postural perturbations: new insights for treatment of balance disorders

    Fay B Horak;Sharon M Henry;Anne Shumway-Cook

  • The relevance of clinical balance assessment tools to differentiate balance deficits

    Martina Mancini;Fay B Horak

  • Cortical control of postural responses.

    J. V. Jacobs;F. B. Horak

  • Ankle and hip postural strategies defined by joint torques

    C.F Runge;C.F Runge;C.F Runge;C.L Shupert;F.B Horak;F.E Zajac;F.E Zajac

  • Postural inflexibility in parkinsonian subjects.

    F.B. Horak;J.G. Nutt;L.M. Nashner

  • Influence of central set on human postural responses

    Fay B. Horak;H. C. Diener;L. M. Nashner

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

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

  • Clinical assessment of balance disorders

    Fay B. Horak

  • The effects of movement velocity, mass displaced, and task certainty on associated postural adjustments made by normal and hemiplegic individuals.

    F B Horak;P Esselman;M E Anderson;M K Lynch

Frequent Co-Authors

John G. Nutt
John G. Nutt Oregon Health & Science University
Lorenzo Chiari
Lorenzo Chiari University of Bologna
Gammon M. Earhart
Gammon M. Earhart Washington University in St. Louis
James McNames
James McNames Portland State University
Robert J. Peterka
Robert J. Peterka Oregon Health & Science University
Victor S. Gurfinkel
Victor S. Gurfinkel Oregon Health & Science University
Lewis M. Nashner
Lewis M. Nashner Washington University in St. Louis
Cyrus P. Zabetian
Cyrus P. Zabetian University of Washington
John J. Jeka
John J. Jeka University of Delaware
Angelo Cappello
Angelo Cappello University of Bologna

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