Martina Mancini, Ph.D.

  • Associate Professor of Neurology, School of Medicine
  • Balance Disorders Laboratory

Biography

Dr. Martina Mancini studies how to improve everyday functional mobility and prevent falls with rehabilitation interventions by investigating the pathophysiology of motor impairments and objectively characterizing them with new technologies. Using a variety of body-worn sensors (e.g. EMG, inertial sensors, fNIRS) to characterize movement and brain activity, this line of research will help to determine how the central nervous system integrates sensory information in healthy individuals and those with movement disorders, with a particular focus on Parkinson's disease. These novel, objective metrics of movement, combined with neurophysiological information, allows for the determination of optimal variable(s) to integrate with biofeedback, resulting in more effective rehabilitation interventions. This approach will bring new possibilities to monitor and condition functional mobility on a daily basis directly at home.

Education and training

  • Degrees

    • B.S., 2002, University of Bologna
    • M.S., 2005, University of Bologna
    • Ph.D., 2009, University of Bologna

Additional information

Publications

Publications

  • Daily life mobility detects frailty, falls, and functioning in older prostate cancer survivors treated with androgen deprivation therapy

    Journal of Geriatric Oncology
    1. Deanne C. Tibbitts
    2. Martina Mancini
    3. Sydnee Stoyles
    4. Nathan F. Dieckmann
    5. Julie N. Graff
    6. Mahmoud El-Gohary
    7. Fay B. Horak
    8. Kerri M. Winters-Stone

  • Digital gait measures, but not the 400-meter walk time, detect abnormal gait characteristics in people with Prediabetes

    Gait and Posture
    1. Vrutangkumar V. Shah
    2. Patricia Carlson-Kuhta
    3. Martina Mancini
    4. Kristen Sowalsky
    5. Fay B. Horak

  • Discordance Between Balance Ability and Perception Is Associated With Falls in Parkinson’s Disease

    Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair
    1. Jason K. Longhurst
    2. Andrew Hooyman
    3. Merrill R. Landers
    4. Martina Mancini
    5. Erika Franzén
    6. Breiffni Leavy
    7. Hanna Johansson
    8. Daniel Peterson

  • Effects of balance constraints during a double-step reaching task

    Gait and Posture
    1. Christopher Moya-Jofré
    2. Juan José Mariman
    3. Trinidad Bruna-Melo
    4. José Carrasco-Plaza
    5. Julio Torres-Elgueta
    6. Fernanda Aleitte-Leyton
    7. Cristian Muñoz-Puelman
    8. Fay B. Horak
    9. Martina Mancini
    10. Pablo Ignacio Burgos

  • Prefrontal Cortex Activity During Gait in People With Persistent Symptoms After Concussion

    Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair
    1. Douglas N. Martini
    2. Martina Mancini
    3. Prokopios Antonellis
    4. Paul McDonnell
    5. Rodrigo Vitorio
    6. Samuel Stuart
    7. Laurie A. King

  • Real-world gait and turning in individuals scheduled for total knee arthroplasty

    Clinical Biomechanics
    1. Ramon J. Boekesteijn
    2. Noël L.W. Keijsers
    3. Koen Defoort
    4. Martina Mancini
    5. Frank J. Bruning
    6. Mahmoud El-Gohary
    7. Alexander C.H. Geurts
    8. Katrijn Smulders

  • Stride width and postural stability in frontal gait disorders and Parkinson’s disease

    Journal of Neurology
    1. Carolin Curtze
    2. Vrutangkumar V. Shah
    3. Alexa M. Stefanko
    4. Marian L. Dale
    5. John G. Nutt
    6. Martina Mancini
    7. Fay B. Horak

  • The Time Course of Changes in Prefrontal Cortex Activity During Walking in People With Parkinson’s Disease

    Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair
    1. Carla Silva-Batista
    2. William Liu
    3. Rodrigo Vitorio
    4. Samuel Stuart
    5. Joseph F. Quinn
    6. Martina Mancini

  • The Use of Novel Instrumented Socks to Detect Changes in Daily Life Mobility During an Exercise Intervention in Prostate Cancer Survivors Treated with Androgen Deprivation Therapy

    Seminars in oncology nursing
    1. Deanne C. Tibbitts
    2. Sydnee A. Stoyles
    3. Martina Mancini
    4. Mahmoud El-Gohary
    5. Fay B. Horak
    6. Nathan F. Dieckmann
    7. Kerri M. Winters-Stone

  • Turning speed as a more responsive metric of age-related decline in mobility

    Clinical Biomechanics
    1. Angela R. Weston
    2. Keith R. Lohse
    3. Andrew Kittelson
    4. Laurie A. King
    5. Patty Carlson-Kuhta
    6. Leland E. Dibble
    7. Martina Mancini

  • Balance telerehabilitation and wearable technology for people with Parkinson’s disease (TelePD trial)

    BMC Neurology
    1. Carla Silva-Batista
    2. Jennifer L. Wilhelm
    3. Kathleen T. Scanlan
    4. Margaret Stojak
    5. Patricia Carlson-Kuhta
    6. Siting Chen
    7. William Liu
    8. Tomas Nicolás García de la Huerta
    9. Fay B. Horak
    10. Martina Mancini
    11. Laurie A. King

  • C-STIM

    Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications
    1. M. L. Dale
    2. M. Mancini
    3. A. Stevens
    4. B. H. Brumbach
    5. A. Prewitt
    6. G. Harker
    7. C. Silva-Batista
    8. A. Ragothaman
    9. R. L. Folmer
    10. J. F. Quinn
    11. F. B. Horak

  • Digital measures of freezing of gait across the spectrum of normal, non-freezers, possible freezers and definite freezers

    Journal of Neurology
    1. Martina Mancini
    2. Naoya Hasegawa
    3. Daniel S. Peterson
    4. Fay B. Horak
    5. John G. Nutt

  • Effect of Levodopa and Environmental Setting on Gait and Turning Digital Markers Related to Falls in People with Parkinson's Disease

    Movement Disorders Clinical Practice
    1. Vrutangkumar V. Shah
    2. James McNames
    3. Patricia Carlson-Kuhta
    4. John G. Nutt
    5. Mahmoud El-Gohary
    6. Kristen Sowalsky
    7. Martina Mancini
    8. Fay B. Horak

  • Elevated Gaussian-modeled beta power in the cortex characterizes aging, but not Parkinson's disease

    Journal of neurophysiology
    1. Apoorva Karekal
    2. Samuel Stuart
    3. Martina Mancini
    4. Nicole C. Swann

  • Exploring mobility dysfunction in people with and without impaired cognition in Parkinson disease

    Parkinsonism and Related Disorders
    1. Natália Mariano Barboza
    2. Martina Mancini
    3. Suhaila Mahmoud Smaili
    4. Fay B. Horak
    5. Patricia Carlson-Kuhta
    6. Rosie Morris
    7. Laurie A. King

  • Feasibility of a Novel Therapist-Assisted Feedback System for Gait Training in Parkinson’s Disease

    Sensors
    1. Carla Silva-Batista
    2. Graham Harker
    3. Rodrigo Vitorio
    4. Fay B. Horak
    5. Patricia Carlson-Kuhta
    6. Sean Pearson
    7. Jess VanDerwalker
    8. Mahmoud El-Gohary
    9. Martina Mancini

  • Gait and turning characteristics from daily life increase ability to predict future falls in people with Parkinson's disease

    Frontiers in Neurology
    1. Vrutangkumar V. Shah
    2. Adam Jagodinsky
    3. James McNames
    4. Patricia Carlson-Kuhta
    5. John G. Nutt
    6. Mahmoud El-Gohary
    7. Kristen Sowalsky
    8. Graham Harker
    9. Martina Mancini
    10. Fay B. Horak

  • Identifying trajectories and predictors of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy symptoms, physical functioning, and falls across treatment and recovery in adults treated with neurotoxic chemotherapy

    BMC cancer
    1. Kerri M. Winters-Stone
    2. Stephanie M. Krasnow
    3. Fay B. Horak
    4. Martina Mancini
    5. Michelle H. Cameron
    6. Nathan F. Dieckmann
    7. Sydnee A. Stoyles
    8. Eric J. Roeland

  • Mobility Rehab visual feedback system for gait rehabilitation in older adults

    Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation
    1. Carla Silva-Batista
    2. Graham Harker
    3. Rodrigo Vitorio
    4. Mike Studer
    5. Brady Whetten
    6. Jodi Lapidus
    7. Patricia Carlson-Kuhta
    8. Sean Pearson
    9. Jess VanDerwalker
    10. Fay B. Horak
    11. Mahmoud El-Gohary
    12. Martina Mancini

  • Motor networks, but also non-motor networks predict motor signs in Parkinson's disease

    NeuroImage: Clinical
    1. Anjanibhargavi Ragothaman
    2. Martina Mancini
    3. John G. Nutt
    4. Junping Wang
    5. Damien A. Fair
    6. Fay B. Horak
    7. Oscar Miranda-Dominguez

  • Opal Actigraphy (Activity and Sleep) Measures Compared to ActiGraph

    Sensors
    1. Vrutangkumar V. Shah
    2. Barbara H. Brumbach
    3. Sean Pearson
    4. Paul Vasilyev
    5. Edward King
    6. Patricia Carlson-Kuhta
    7. Martina Mancini
    8. Fay B. Horak
    9. Kristen Sowalsky
    10. James McNames
    11. Mahmoud El-Gohary

  • Should we use both clinical and mobility measures to identify fallers in Parkinson's disease?

    Parkinsonism and Related Disorders
    1. Rodrigo Vitorio
    2. Martina Mancini
    3. Patricia Carlson-Kuhta
    4. Fay B. Horak
    5. Vrutangkumar V. Shah

  • The Instrumented Stand and Walk (ISAW) test to predict falls in older men

    GeroScience
    1. Fay B. Horak
    2. Amy Laird
    3. Patricia Carlson-Kuhta
    4. Melanie Abrahamson
    5. Martina Mancini
    6. Eric S. Orwoll
    7. Jodi A. Lapidus
    8. Vrutangkumar V. Shah

  • Visual Exploration While Walking With and Without Visual Cues in Parkinson’s Disease

    Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair
    1. Lisa Graham
    2. Jordan Armitage
    3. Rodrigo Vitorio
    4. Julia Das
    5. Gill Barry
    6. Alan Godfrey
    7. Claire McDonald
    8. Richard Walker
    9. Martina Mancini
    10. Rosie Morris
    11. Samuel Stuart

  • Brain activity response to cues during gait in Parkinson’s disease

    PloS one
    1. Rodrigo Vitório
    2. Rosie Morris
    3. Julia Das
    4. Richard Walker
    5. Martina Mancini
    6. Samuel Stuart

  • Does Cueing Need Attention? A Pilot Study in People with Parkinson's Disease

    Neuroscience
    1. Carla Silva-Batista
    2. Óscar Miranda-Domínguez
    3. Anjanibhargavi Ragothaman
    4. Damien A. Fair
    5. Alessandra Mantovani
    6. Sam Stuart
    7. John G. Nutt
    8. Fay B. Horak
    9. Martina Mancini

  • Does visual cueing improve gait initiation in people with Parkinson's disease?

    Human Movement Science
    1. Yuri Russo
    2. Samuel Stuart
    3. Carla Silva-Batista
    4. Barbara Brumbach
    5. Giuseppe Vannozzi
    6. Martina Mancini