Daniel van Wamelen is a Clinical Senior Lecturer in Neuroscience in the department of Neuroimaging at King’s College London and an honorary consultant neurologist, specialising in movement disorders, at King’s College Hospital. He trained as a neurologist at Leiden University Medical Centre and he completed his PhD, entitled ‘Hypothalamic pathology in Huntington’s Disease’, at the same university in collaboration with the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience. Before moving to the UK, he completed a movement disorders fellowship at Radboud University and in 2018 started working at King’s College London. He is currently leading a multidisciplinary research team at King’s College London, working in the field of movement disorders and neuroimaging.

His clinical and research interests are neuroimaging and other biomarkers of movement disorders, in particular Huntington’s and Parkinson’s disease, as well as the role of the biological clock and non-pharmacological interventions in these disorders. A current focus of his research is on the iMarkHD study in people Huntington’s disease using multimodal PET and MRI imaging to identify novel biomarkers and therapeutic targets for this condition.

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Key publications:

• van Wamelen et al., 2013. Suprachiasmatic Nucleus Neuropeptide Expression in Patients with Huntington's Disease. Sleep.
• van Wamelen et al., 2011. Functional increase of brain histaminergic signaling in Huntington's disease. Brain Pathology.
• van Wamelen., 2021. The Non‐Motor Symptoms Scale in Parkinson’s disease: Validation and use. Acta Neurologica Scandinavica. 
• van Wamelen., 2019. Slave to the rhythm: seasonal differences in non-motor symptoms in Parkinson's disease. Parkinsonism & Related Disorders.
• van Wamelen,. 2021. How time rules: diurnal motor patterns in de novo Parkinson’s disease. Journal of Parkinson's disease.

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Key collaborators:

• Prof Bas Bloem; Radboud University Medical Centre