Her clinical and research interests are in movement disorders (Parkinson’s disease in particular) and in cognitive impairment and dementia. Her other major interests include functional imaging and repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS). She worked as a Board Member of the EPDA (European Parkinson’s Disease Association) and as Vice-President of the EPDA. She is Vice-President of the Cognitive Neurology Committee of the Czech Neurological Society and in 2011 became Head of the Applied Neuroscience Research Group, Central European Institute of Technology, CEITEC MU, Brno, Czech Republic. In 2011, Dr. Irena Rektorova became a national coordinator of the JPND European research projects for the optimisation of biomarkers and harmonisation of their use between clinical centres "BIOMARKAPD“. The project coordinator is prof. Dr. Bengt Winblad, Karolinska Institute, Sweden.