Patrick Manser

Visionary Researcher on Serious Exergames for Health


Curriculum vitae



Science thrives on collaboration and critical discussion. If you're curious to learn more about my work, open to engaging with my mission, or interested in building a shared vision, I’d love to hear from you. Please get in touch via email (see above) or through one of the platforms below.



Publications


Overview:

Article Type: Count: Percentage:
Original Articles 9 47 %
Reviews 5 26 %
Methodological Papers 3 16 %
Study Protocols 1 5 %
Preprints 2 11 %
Total 19

Contributorship level:

Role: Count: Percentage:
First author 14 74 %
Corresponding author 16 84 %
Senior (last) author 2 11 %
Middle-author 3 16 %

Top 5 scientific journals:

(ranked by the 2024 Journal Impact Factor (JIF))
   1.   Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association (Wiley; JIF = 13.1)
   2.   Ageing Research Reviews (Elsevier; JIF = 12.5)
   3.   Alzheimer's Research & Therapy (BMC; JIF = 7.9)   
   4.   Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews (Elsevier; JIF = 7.6)
   5.   Frontiers in Ageing Neuroscience (JIF = 4.1)

Top 5 publications:



Structural brain improvements following individually tailored serious exergame-based training in mild neurocognitive disorders: exploratory randomized controlled trial


Patrick Manser, Michael Rosio, André Schmidt, Lars Michels, Eling D. de Bruin

Alzheimer's Research & Therapy, vol. 17(1), 2025 Sep 8, p. 190




Beyond “just” fun: The role of exergames in advancing health promotion and disease prevention


Patrick Manser, Eling D. de Bruin, Jean-Jacques Temprado, Louis Bherer, Fabian Herold

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, vol. 176, 2025 Jun 21, p. 106260




“Brain-IT”: Exergame training with biofeedback breathing in neurocognitive disorders


Patrick Manser, Eling D. de Bruin

Alzheimer's & Dementia, vol. 20, 2024, pp. 4747-4764



Full list of publications:

2025




Beyond FITT: addressing density in understanding the dose–response relationships of physical activity with health—an example based on brain health


Fabian Herold, Liye Zou, Paula Theobald, Patrick Manser, Ryan S Falck, Qian Yu, Teresa Liu-Ambrose, Charles H Hillman, Arthur K Kramer, Kirk I Erickson, Boris Cheval, Yanxia Chen, Matthew Heath, Zhihao Zhang, Toru Ishihara, Keita Kamijo, Soichi Ando, Yanping Gao, Joseph T. Costello, Meijun Hou, Mats Hallgren, Zhihui Chen, David Moreau, Vahid Farrahi, David A. Raichlen, Emmanuel Stamatakis, Michael J. Wheeler, Neville Owen, Sebastian Ludyga, Henning Budde, Thomas Gronwald

European Journal of Applied Physiology, Jun 26




Co-Develop-IT - Co-design, Development, and Evaluation of Individually Tailored Technology-Enhanced Training and Rehabilitation Concepts: Methodological Guideline Development Study


Patrick Manser, Lotte E.S. Hardeman, Andreas Wallin, David Moulaee Conradsson, Breiffni Leavy, Franziska Albrecht, Melvyn Roerdink, Jean-Jacques Temprado, Eling D. de Bruin, Erika Franzén

medRxiv, 2025




Structural brain improvements following individually tailored serious exergame-based training in mild neurocognitive disorders: exploratory randomized controlled trial


Patrick Manser, Michael Rosio, André Schmidt, Lars Michels, Eling D. de Bruin

Alzheimer's Research & Therapy, vol. 17(1), 2025 Sep 8, p. 190




Beyond “just” fun: The role of exergames in advancing health promotion and disease prevention


Patrick Manser, Eling D. de Bruin, Jean-Jacques Temprado, Louis Bherer, Fabian Herold

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, vol. 176, 2025 Jun 21, p. 106260



2024




Diagnostic accuracy of heart rate variability as a screening tool for mild neurocognitive disorder


Julia Czopek-Rowinska, Eling D. de Bruin, Patrick Manser

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, vol. 16, 2024




Beyond FITT-How Density Can Improve the Understanding of the Dose-Response Relationship Between Physical Activity and Brain Health


Fabian Herold, Liye Zou, Paula Theobald, Patrick Manser, Ryan S Falck, Qian Yu, Teresa Liu-Ambrose, Charles H Hillman, Arthur K Kramer, Kirk I Erickson, Boris Cheval, Yanxia Chen, Matthew Heath, Zhihao Zhang, Toru Ishihara, Keita Kamijo, Soichi Ando, Yanping Gao, Joseph T. Costello, Meijun Hou, Mats Hallgren, Zhihui Chen, David Moreau, Vahid Farrahi, David A. Raichlen, Emmanuel Stamatakis, Michael J. Wheeler, Neville Owen, Sebastian Ludyga, Henning Budde, Thomas Gronwald

SportRxiv, Society for Transparency, Openness, and Replication in Kinesology, 2024




Diagnostic accuracy, reliability, and construct validity of the German quick mild cognitive impairment screen


Patrick Manser, Eling D de Bruin

BMC geriatrics, vol. 24, Springer, 2024, p. 613




“Brain-IT”: Exergame training with biofeedback breathing in neurocognitive disorders


Patrick Manser, Eling D. de Bruin

Alzheimer's & Dementia, vol. 20, 2024, pp. 4747-4764



2023




Development and initial validation of the German version of the Exergame Enjoyment Questionnaire (EEQ-G)


Patrick Manser, Simone Huber, Julia Seinsche, Eling D. de Bruin, Eleftheria Giannouli

PLOS ONE, vol. 18, Public Library of Science, 2023 Jun, pp. 1-17



2021




Can Reactivity of Heart Rate Variability Be a Potential Biomarker and Monitoring Tool to Promote Healthy Aging? A Systematic Review With Meta-Analyses


Patrick Manser, Melanie Thalmann, Manuela Adcock, Ruud H. Knols, Eling D. de Bruin

Frontiers in Physiology, vol. 12(1133), 2021


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