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Hypometria in Parkinson's disease: Automatic versus controlled processing

✍ Scribed by Rosinda M. Oliverira; Jennifer M. Gurd; Phillip Nixon; John C. Marshall; Dr. Richard E. Passingham

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1998
Tongue
English
Weight
506 KB
Volume
13
Category
Article
ISSN
0885-3185

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Objectives: The aim was to investigate whether patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) make movements that are of smaller amplitude when required to attend to a secondary task at the same time as performing a motor task.

Methods: Thirteen patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease (mean age, 67.1 yrs) and 14 healthy control subjects (mean age, 66.2 yrs) were tested. The motor task was repeated opposition of the thumb and forefinger and the secondary task was a lexical decision task.

Results: The PD patients made hypometric movements, and the amplitude was further decreased when they performed the secondary task at the same time. There was no significant change for the control subjects.

Conclusion: The unpaced motor task was less automatic for the PD patients than for the control subjects, and hence more subject to interference from a secondary task. We relate this to the underactivation of the supplementary motor cortex (SMA).

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