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Response to: staircase climbing is not solely a visual compensation strategy to alleviate freezing of gait in Parkinson’s disease

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Prof. Bastiaan R. 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.

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

    Sabine Janssen, Richard van Wezel & 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. Department of Biophysics, Donders Institute of Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Richard van Wezel

  4. VanBerlo, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Mileha Soneji

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

    Jorik Nonnekes

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Janssen, S., van Wezel, R., Soneji, M. et al. Response to: staircase climbing is not solely a visual compensation strategy to alleviate freezing of gait in Parkinson’s disease. J Neurol 264, 177–178 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-016-8354-2

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