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A painted staircase illusion to alleviate freezing of gait in Parkinson’s disease

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Acknowledgments

Prof. Bas Bloem was supported by a research grant of the National Parkinson Foundation. Sabine Janssen was supported by a research grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. Neither of these funding sources has had any influence on the preparation, review or approval of this manuscript.

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  1. Biomedical Signals and Systems Group, MIRA Institute for Biomedical Technology and Technical Medicine, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Sabine Janssen & Jorik Nonnekes

  2. Department of Neurology, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Sabine Janssen & Bastiaan R. Bloem

  3. VanBerlo, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Mileha Soneji

  4. Department of Rehabilitation, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Jorik Nonnekes

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Sabine Janssen was supported by a research grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. This funding source has had no influence on the preparation, review or approval of this manuscript. Sabine Janssen declares to have no conflicts of interests. Mileha Soneji declares to have no conflicts of interests. Jorik Nonnekes declares to have no conflicts of interests. Prof. Bas Bloem was supported by a research grant of the National Parkinson Foundation. This funding source has had no influence on the preparation, review or approval of this manuscript. Bas Bloem declares to have no conflicts of interests.

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Video 1: A 60-year-old man with Parkinson’s disease and severely disabling freezing of gait. (MP4 3751 kb)

Video 2: The same patient demonstrating a preserved ability to climb stairs. (MP4 5639 kb)

Video 3: Demonstration of a painted three-dimensional staircase illusion alleviating freezing of gait. (MP4 9916 kb)

All three videos were videotaped after each other (video 1–2–3), when levodopa had worn off and the patient experienced an OFF-phase.

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Janssen, S., Soneji, M., Nonnekes, J. et al. A painted staircase illusion to alleviate freezing of gait in Parkinson’s disease. J Neurol 263, 1661–1662 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-016-8195-z

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