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Department of Neurology: Virmani Gait Laboratory

Selected Publications

See Dr. Virmani’s full bibliography.

  • Burns J+, Landes RD, Pillai L, Virmani T. Tandem gait step-width increases more rapidly in more severely affected people with Parkinson’s disease. Parkinsonism Relat Disord. 2024 Jul 30:127:107078. doi: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2024.107078.
  • Virmani T, Pillai L, Smith V, Glover A, Abrams D, Farmer P, Syed S, Spencer HJ, Kemp A, Barron K, Murray T, Morris B, Bowers B, Ward A, Imus T, Larson-Prior LJ, Lotia M, Prior F. Feasibility or regional center telehealth visits utilizing a rural research network in people with Parkinson’s disease. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science. 2024 Mar 25;8(1):e63. doi:10.1017/cts.2024.498. PMID: 38655451 PMCID: PMC11036429.
  • Virmani T, Kemp AS, Pillai L, Glover A, Spencer H, Larson-Prior LJ. Development and Implementation of The Frog-In-Maze Game to Study Upper limb Movement in People with Parkinson’s Disease. Sci Rep. 2023 Dec 20;13(1):22784. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-49382-w. PMID: 38123606, PMCID: PMC10733393
  • Iyer A$, Kemp A, Rahmatallah, Pillai L, Glover A, Prior F, Larson-Prior L, Virmani T. A machine learning method to process voice samples for identification of Parkinson’s disease. Sci Rep. 2023 Nov 23;13(1):20615. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-47568-w. PMID: 37996478, PMCID: PMC10667335
  • Virmani T, Landes RD, Pillai L, Glover A, Larson-Prior L, Prior F, Factor SA.  Gait Declines Differentially in, and Improves Prediction of, People with Parkinson’s Disease Converting to a Freezing of Gait Phenotype. J Parkinsons Dis. 2023 Jul 27. doi: 10.3233/JPD-230020. PMID: 37522218
  • Virmani T, Patra M, Glover A, Pillai L. Objective quantification of responses to the clinical pull-test in people with Parkinson’s disease. Gait Posture. 2023 May 5;103:106-112. doi:10.1016/j.gaitpost.2023.05.005. PMID: 37156162
  • Virmani T, Lotia M, Glover A, Pillai L, Kemp A, Iyer A, Farmer P, Syed S, Larson-Prior, LJ, Prior F. Feasibility of telemedicine research visits in people with Parkinson’s residing in medically underserved areas. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science. 2022 1-36. doi:10.1017/cts.2022.459. PMID: 36590358 
  • Landes RD, Glover A, Pillai L, Doerhoff S, Virmani T. Levodopa ONOFF-state freezing of gait: Defining the gait and non-motor phenotype. PLoS One. 2022 Jun 2;17(6):e0269227. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0269227. PMID: 35653359 PMCID: PMC9162361
  • Pillai L, Shah K, Glover A, Virmani T. Increased foot strike variability during turning in Parkinson’s disease patients with freezing of gait. Gait Posture. 2022 Dec 10;92:321-327. doi: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2021.12.012. PMID: 34915403.
  • Syeda HB, Glover A, Pillai L, Kemp AS, Spencer H, Lotia M, Larson-Prior LJ, Virmani T. Amplitude setting and dopamine response of finger tapping and gait are related in Parkinson’s disease. Sci Rep. 2022 Mar 9;12(1):4180. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-07994-8. PMID: 35264705 PMCID: PMC8907286.
  • Glover A, Pillai L, Doerhoff SM, Virmani T. Olfactory Deficits in the Freezing of Gait Phenotype of Parkinson’s Disease. Frontiers in Neurology 2021; Aug 12;12:656379. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2021.656379. PMID: 34456839
  • Glover A, Pillai L, Doerhoff, S.M., Virmani, T. Differential Gait Decline in Parkinson’s Disease Enhances Discrimination of Gait Freezers from Non-freezers. J. of Parkinson Disease 2020; 10(4):1657-73. doi: 10.3233/JPD-201961. PMID: 32925092
  • Virmani, T., Pillai, L., Glover, A., Doerhoff, S.M., Williams, DK., Garcia-Rill, E., Larson-Prior, L. Impaired step-length setting prior to turning in Parkinson’s disease patients with freezing of gait. Mov. Disord. 2018; 33(11):1823-25. doi: 10.1002/mds.27499
  • Virmani, T., Gupta, H.*, Shah, J.+, Larson-Prior, L.. Objective measures of gait and balance in healthy non-falling adults as a function of age. Gait and posture 2018. 2018; 65:100-105. doi: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2018.07.167
  • Virmani, T., Moskowitz, C.B., Vonsattel, J.P., Fahn, S. Clinicopathologic characteristics of freezing of gait in autopsy-confirmed Parkinson’s disease. Mov. Disord. 2015; 30(14): 1874-84. doi: 10.1002/mds.26346.

# equal contribution
* Neurology resident mentee
+Medical student mentee
$High school student mentee