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John G. Nutt is affiliated with Oregon Health & Science University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine and health professions. Their research primarily focuses on neurology, physical therapy, sports therapy and rehabilitation, psychiatry and mental health, cognitive neuroscience, and biomedical engineering.

The scientist's body of work spans several main topics, notably:

  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention
  • Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders
  • Neurological disorders and treatments
  • Muscle activation and electromyography studies
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications

John G. Nutt has frequently published in notable scientific venues which include:

  • Movement Disorders
  • Journal of Parkinson s Disease
  • Journal of Neurology
  • Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation
  • Neurorehabilitation and neural repair

Recent papers cover various aspects of mobility, gait, and disease management. These include:

  • Measuring freezing of gait during daily-life: an open-source, wearable sensors approach, 2021, Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation
  • Recommendations for the Organization of Multidisciplinary Clinical Care Teams in Parkinson's Disease, 2020, Journal of Parkinson s Disease
  • 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

The scientist has collaborated extensively with several coauthors, including:

  • Martina Mancini
  • Fay B. Horak
  • Patricia Carlson-Kuhta
  • Vrutangkumar V. Shah
  • Carolin Curtze

Best Publications

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

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

  • Effects of coenzyme Q10 in early Parkinson disease: evidence of slowing of the functional decline.

    Clifford W. Shults;David Oakes;Karl Kieburtz;M. Flint Beal

  • Randomized controlled trial of intraputamenal glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor infusion in Parkinson disease.

    Anthony E. Lang;Steven Gill;Nik K. Patel;Andres Lozano

  • Episodic ataxia/myokymia syndrome is associated with point mutations in the human potassium channel gene, KCNA1.

    David L. Browne;Stephen T. Gancher;John G. Nutt;Ewout R. P. Brunt

  • Randomized, double-blind trial of glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) in PD

    J.G. Nutt;K.J. Burchiel;C.L. Comella;J. Jankovic

  • Common genetic variation in the HLA region is associated with late-onset sporadic Parkinson's disease

    Taye H. Hamza;Cyrus P. Zabetian;Cyrus P. Zabetian;Albert Tenesa;Alain Laederach

  • Human walking and higher‐level gait disorders, particularly in the elderly

    J. G. Nutt;C. D. Marsden;P. D. Thompson

  • Postural inflexibility in parkinsonian subjects.

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

  • Impaired mesial frontal and putamen activation in Parkinson's disease: A positron emission tomography study

    Edith Diane Playford;I. H. Jenkins;I. H. Jenkins;R. E. Passingham;R. E. Passingham;J. Nutt;J. Nutt

  • A controlled trial of rasagiline in early Parkinson disease: The tempo study

    Andrew Siderowf;Matthew Stern;Ira Shoulson;Karl Kieburtz

  • The "on-off" phenomenon in Parkinson's disease. Relation to levodopa absorption and transport

    John G. Nutt;William R. Woodward;John P. Hammerstad;Julie H. Carter

  • Identification of a Novel LRRK2 Mutation Linked to Autosomal Dominant Parkinsonism: Evidence of a Common Founder across European Populations

    Jennifer Kachergus;Ignacio F. Mata;Mary Hulihan;Julie P. Taylor

  • Epidemiology of focal and generalized dystonia in Rochester, Minnesota.

    John G. Nutt;Manfred D. Muenter;Arnold Aronson;Leonard T. Kurland

  • Levodopa motor complications in Parkinson's disease.

    José A. Obeso;C. Warren Olanow;John G. Nutt

  • Strategies to advance translational research into brain barriers

    Edward Neuwelt;N Joan Abbott;Lauren Abrey;William A Banks

  • iTUG, a Sensitive and Reliable Measure of Mobility

    Arash Salarian;Fay B Horak;Cris Zampieri;Patricia Carlson-Kuhta

  • Direction-specific postural instability in subjects with Parkinson's disease.

    Fay B. Horak;Diana Dimitrova;John G. Nutt

  • Levodopa-induced dyskinesia: review, observations, and speculations.

    John G. Nutt

  • Detection of biomarkers with a multiplex quantitative proteomic platform in cerebrospinal fluid of patients with neurodegenerative disorders

    Fadi Abdi;Joseph F. Quinn;Joseph Jankovic;Martin McIntosh

  • Pharmacokinetics of levodopa

    J G Nutt;J H Fellman

Frequent Co-Authors

Fay B. Horak
Fay B. Horak Oregon Health & Science University
Haydeh Payami
Haydeh Payami University of Alabama at Birmingham
William R. Woodward
William R. Woodward Oregon Health & Science University
Andres M. Lozano
Andres M. Lozano University of Toronto
William C. Koller
William C. Koller University of Miami
Mitchell F. Brin
Mitchell F. Brin Allergan (Ireland)
Andrew J. Lees
Andrew J. Lees University College London
Cyrus P. Zabetian
Cyrus P. Zabetian University of Washington
Stewart A. Factor
Stewart A. Factor Emory University
Ali Samii
Ali Samii University of Washington

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