Rick's passion is to understand the cerebral mechanisms that lead to neurological diseases, and use these insights to develop new therapies for patients with movement disorders. Rick works as a neurologist and associate professor specialising in Parkinson’s disease and tremor disorders at the Radboud University Medical Centre (with Prof Bas Bloem) and at the Donders Institute, both in the Netherlands. Rick is very much inspired by clinical observations in patients, and uses neuroimaging and neurophysiology to understand the underlying mechanisms. He is particularly intrigued by the profound effects of psychological stress on many neurological movement disorders, by the way patients can compensate for brain dysfunction, and by the different ways in which tremor can manifest itself.
