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Dual task performance in Parkinson's disease

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. Green open access

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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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