Foley, JA;
Kaschel, R;
Della Sala, S;
(2013)
Dual task performance in Parkinson's disease.
Behavioural Neurology
, 27
(2)
pp. 183-191.
10.3233/BEN-110238.
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Abstract
Several studies have found dual tasking to be impaired in Alzheimer’s disease (AD), but unaffected by healthy ageing. It is not known if this deficit is specific to AD, or also present in other neurodegenerative disorders that can occur in later life, such as Parkinson’s disease (PD). Therefore, this study investigated dual tasking in 13 people with PD, 26 AD and 42 healthy age-matched controls. The people with AD demonstrated a specific impairment in dual tasking, which worsened with increasing disease severity. The people with PD did not demonstrate any deficits in dual tasking ability, when compared to healthy controls, suggesting that the dual task impairment is specific to AD.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Dual task performance in Parkinson's disease |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.3233/BEN-110238 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/BEN-110238 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2013 Hindawi Publishing Corporation and the authors. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, dual task, WORKING-MEMORY SPAN, ALZHEIMERS-DISEASE, DIVIDED ATTENTION, CONCURRENT PERFORMANCE, RETRIEVAL-PROCESSES, EXECUTIVE CONTROL, AGE-DIFFERENCES, OLDER-ADULTS, INTERFERENCE, DEMENTIA |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology > Clinical and Movement Neurosciences |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1574221 |
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