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Overview

Karen Marder is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Medicine, with a particular focus on Neurology, Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation, Biomedical Engineering, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

The scientist's work covers several interconnected topics, including:

  • Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention
  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Muscle activation and electromyography studies
  • Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders
  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems

Marder has frequently published in venues such as:

  • Journal of Neurophysiology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering
  • Bioengineering
  • BMC Neurology

Recent papers highlight a range of studies with clinical and technological emphasis, including:

  • "Transductive Learning Models for Accurate Ambulatory Gait Analysis in Elderly Residents of Assisted Living Facilities" (2022, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering)
  • "Design of the WHIP-PD study: a phase II, twelve-month, dual-site, randomized controlled trial evaluating the effects of a cognitive-behavioral approach for promoting enhanced walking activity using mobile health technology in people with Parkinson-disease" (2020, BMC Neurology)
  • "Using Wearable Sensors to Assess Freezing of Gait in the Real World" (2023, Bioengineering)
  • "A Walking Dance to Improve Gait Speed for People With Parkinson Disease: A Pilot Study" (2020, Neurodegenerative Disease Management)
  • "Impaired Scaling of Step Length in Parkinsonian Postural Instability" (2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory))

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Gammon M. Earhart
  • Myriam Taga
  • Charalambos C. Charalambous
  • Sharmila Raju
  • Leticia Hayes

Best Publications

  • Updated research nosology for HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders

    A. Antinori;G. Arendt;J. T. Becker;B. J. Brew

  • Diagnostic Criteria for Mild Cognitive Impairment in Parkinson’s Disease: Movement Disorder Society Task Force Guidelines

    Irene Litvan;Jennifer G. Goldman;Alexander I. Tröster;Ben A. Schmand

  • Unified huntington’s disease rating scale: Reliability and consistency

    Karl Kieburtz;John B. Penney;Peter Corno;Neal Ranen

  • Multicenter Analysis of Glucocerebrosidase Mutations in Parkinson's Disease

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

  • EFFECT OF OESTROGEN DURING MENOPAUSE ON RISK AND AGE AT ONSET OF ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE

    Ming-Xin Tang;Diane Jacobs;Yaakov Stern;Karen Marder

  • Large-scale meta-analysis of genome-wide association data identifies six new risk loci for Parkinson's disease

    Mike A Nalls;Nathan Pankratz;Christina M. Lill;Chuong B. Do

  • Venezuelan kindreds reveal that genetic and environmental factors modulate Huntington's disease age of onset

    Nancy S. Wexler;Judith Lorimer;Julie Porter;Fidela Gomez

  • Mild cognitive impairment in Parkinson disease: a multicenter pooled analysis.

    D. Aarsland;K. Bronnick;C. Williams-Gray;D. Weintraub

  • The Apoe-Epsilon4 Allele and the Risk of Alzheimer Disease among African Americans, Whites, and Hispanics

    Mingxin Tang;Yaakov Stern;Karen Marder;Karen L. Bell

  • Research criteria for the diagnosis of prodromal dementia with Lewy bodies

    Ian G. McKeith;Tanis J. Ferman;Alan J. Thomas;Frédéric Blanc

  • Incidence and predictors of seizures in patients with Alzheimer's disease.

    Joan C. Amatniek;W. Allen Hauser;Carrie DelCastillo-Castaneda;Diane M. Jacobs

  • HIV-associated cognitive impairment before and after the advent of combination therapy

    Ned Sacktor;Ned Sacktor;Michael P. McDermott;Karen Marder;Giovanni Schifitto

  • Olfactory deficits in patients with mild cognitive impairment predict Alzheimer's disease at follow-up.

    D.P. Devanand;Kristin S. Michaels-Marston;Xinhua Liu;Gregory H. Pelton

  • Neuropsychological detection and characterization of preclinical Alzheimer's disease

    Diane Jacobs;Mary Sano;George Dooneief;Karen Marder

  • Diagnostic criteria for psychosis in Parkinson's disease: Report of an NINDS, NIMH work group

    Bernard Ravina;Karen Marder;Hubert H. Fernandez;Joseph H. Friedman

  • Pharmacological Rescue of Mitochondrial Deficits in iPSC-Derived Neural Cells from Patients with Familial Parkinson’s Disease

    Oliver Cooper;Hyemyung Seo;Shaida Andrabi;Cristina Guardia-Laguarta

  • The Course of Psychopathologic Features in Mild to Moderate Alzheimer Disease

    D P Devanand;D M Jacobs;M X Tang;C Del Castillo-Castaneda

  • A population-based investigation of Parkinson's disease with and without dementia. Relationship to age and gender.

    Richard Paul Mayeux;Jean Denaro;Nancy Hemenegildo;Karen Marder

  • The Frequency of Idiopathic Parkinson's Disease by Age, Ethnic Group, and Sex in Northern Manhattan, 1988–1993

    Richard Mayeux;Karen Marder;Lucien J. Cote;Jean Denaro

  • A Multicenter Study of Glucocerebrosidase Mutations in Dementia With Lewy Bodies

    Michael A. Nalls;Raquel Duran;Grisel Lopez;Marzena Kurzawa-Akanbi

Frequent Co-Authors

Yaakov Stern
Yaakov Stern Columbia University
Richard Mayeux
Richard Mayeux Columbia University
Elan D. Louis
Elan D. Louis The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Nir Giladi
Nir Giladi Tel Aviv University
Stanley Fahn
Stanley Fahn Columbia University
Rachel Saunders-Pullman
Rachel Saunders-Pullman Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Ming-Xin Tang
Ming-Xin Tang Columbia University
Mary Sano
Mary Sano Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Avi Orr-Urtreger
Avi Orr-Urtreger Tel Aviv University
Susan B. Bressman
Susan B. Bressman Mount Sinai Beth Israel

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