Nicolaas Bohnen
Professor of Radiology
Professor of Neurology
Radiology
24 Frank Lloyd Wright Dr., Lobby B, Rm 100
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105
[email protected]

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Nicolaas Bohnen
Professor
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  • Qualifications
  • Research Overview
  • Recent Publications
  • About

    Dr. Bohnen is professor of Radiology and Neurology at the University of Michigan. He attended medical school in the Netherlands and completed a PhD in neuropsychology. He completed residency training in neurology (Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN) and nuclear medicine (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI). He was a fellow in movement disorders at the University of Michigan Medical Center. He holds clinical appointments in the Departments of Radiology (Division of Nuclear Medicine), Neurology at the University of Michigan, and the Ann Arbor VA (movement and cognitive disorders clinic). Dr. Bohnen’s research interests include the use of PET and MRI in the study of neurodegenerative disorders and normal aging. He is the director of the UM Functional Neuroimaging, Cognitive and Mobility Laboratory where his clinical research has a focus on neurobiological correlates of cognition, vestibular and multisensory processing during gait and postural control, olfaction and mobility in normal aging and in Parkinson disease.

    Links
    • Functional Neuroimaging, Cognitive and Mobility Laboratory (FNICOMO Lab)
    Qualifications
    • Residency
      University of Michigan Health, Nuclear Medicine, 1998
    • Residency
      Mayo Clinic, Neurology, 1996
    • Epidemiology
      Mayo Clinic, Rochester, 1992
    • PhD
      University of Limburg, Maastricht, Maastricht, 1991
    • MD
      Rabdoud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, 1987
    Research Overview

    The Functional Neuroimaging, Cognitive, and Mobility (FNiCoMo) Laboratory is part of the Departments of Radiology and Neurology at the University of Michigan. The mission of this lab is to gain a better understanding of how the architecture of the brain and functional processes in the brain (obtained with functional neuroimaging) determine cognitive functioning and mobility both in patients with neurodegenerative diseases (such as Parkinson's Disease) and in normal aging.

    Recent Publications See All Publications
    • Journal Article
      Multisensory mechanisms of gait and balance in Parkinson's disease: an integrative review.
      Roytman S, Paalanen R, Carli G, Marusic U, Kanel P, van Laar T, Bohnen NI. Neural Regen Res, 2025 Jan 1; 20 (1): 82 - 92. DOI:10.4103/NRR.NRR-D-23-01484
      PMID: 38767478
    • Journal Article
      The middle managers: thalamic and cholinergic contributions to coordinating top-down and bottom-up processing
      Lustig C, Bohnen NI. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 2024 Aug 1; 58: DOI:10.1016/j.cobeha.2024.101406
    • Journal Article
      Cardiac sympathetic denervation and anxiety in Parkinson disease.
      Carli G, Kanel P, Michalakis F, Roytman S, Bohnen JLB, Wigstrom TP, Scott P, Albin RL, Wong KK, Raffel D, Bohnen NI. Parkinsonism Relat Disord, 2024 Jul; 124: 106997 DOI:10.1016/j.parkreldis.2024.106997
      PMID: 38723520
    • Journal Article
      Cholinergic changes in Lewy body disease: implications for presentation, progression and subtypes.
      Okkels N, Grothe MJ, Taylor J-P, Hasselbalch SG, Fedorova TD, Knudsen K, van der Zee S, van Laar T, Bohnen NI, Borghammer P, Horsager J. Brain, 2024 Jul 5; 147 (7): 2308 - 2324. DOI:10.1093/brain/awae069
      PMID: 38437860
    • Journal Article
      Concerns with the new biological research criteria for synucleinopathy.
      Carli G, Roytman S, Bohnen NI. Lancet Neurol, 2024 Jul; 23 (7): 661 DOI:10.1016/S1474-4422(24)00222-9
      PMID: 38876737
    • Journal Article
      Sensitivity to and Control of Distraction: Distractor-Entrained Oscillation and Frontoparietal EEG Gamma Synchronization.
      Brown T, Kim K, Gehring WJ, Lustig C, Bohnen NI. Brain Sci, 2024 Jun 18; 14 (6): DOI:10.3390/brainsci14060609
      PMID: 38928609
    • Journal Article
      Basal forebrain integrity, cholinergic innervation and cognition in idiopathic Parkinson's disease.
      Crowley SJ, Kanel P, Roytman S, Bohnen NI, Hampstead BM. Brain, 2024 May 3; 147 (5): 1799 - 1808. DOI:10.1093/brain/awad420
      PMID: 38109781
    • Proceeding / Abstract / Poster
      Dopaminergic System Changes in Visuomotor-Cognitive Multitasking Simulating Real-Life Mobility in Parkinson’s Disease
      Bohnen N, Carli G, Biddix A, Luker A, Michalakis F, Ojeda L, Roytman S, Albin R, Scott P, Kanel P. Parkinsonism & Related Disorders, 2024 May; 122: 106614 DOI:10.1016/j.parkreldis.2024.106614