People with Parkinson's disease exhibit debilitating gait impairments, including gait
slowness, increased step variability, and poor postural control. A widespread supraspinal …

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurological disorder traditionally associated with
degeneration of the dopaminergic neurons within the substantia nigra, which results in …

Savings, or faster relearning after initial learning, demonstrates humans' remarkable ability
to retain learned movements amid changing environments. This is important within the …

The fields of human motor control, motor learning, and neurorehabilitation have long been
linked by the intuition that understanding how we move (and learn to move) leads to better …

Background Locomotor adaptability is based on the implementation of error-feedback
information from previous perturbations to predictively adapt to expected perturbations …

Background Split-belt treadmill (SBTM) training has been proposed to improve gait
symmetry and overall gait performance of patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). Objectives …

Walking patterns are adaptable in response to different environmental demands, which
requires neural input from spinal and supraspinal structures. With an increase in age, there …

Protective postural responses to external perturbations are hypokinetic in people with
Parkinson's disease (PD), and improving these responses may reduce falls. However, the …

The aim of this study was to investigate to what extent PD affects the ability to walk, respond
to balance perturbations in a single training session, and produce acute short-term effects to …

Background Falls are a significant burden for people with Parkinson's disease (PD),
however, individuals across the spectrum of disease severity respond differently to fall …