Focused and Sustained Attention Is Modified by a Goal-Based Rehabilitation in Parkinsonian Patients.

ABSTRACT: Rehabilitation for patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) is based on cognitive strategies that exploit attention. Parkinsonians exhibit impairments in divided attention and interference control. Nevertheless, the effectiveness of specific rehabilitation treatments based on attention suggests that other attentional functions are preserved. Data about attention are conflicting in PD, and it is not clear whether rehabilitative treatments that entail attentional strategies affect attention itself. Reaction times (RTs) represent an instrument to explore attention and investigate whether changes in attentional performances parallel rehabilitation induced-gains. RTs of 103 parkinsonian patients in "on" state, without cognitive deficits, were compared with those of a population of 34 healthy cont

SUBMITTER: Ferrazzoli D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5374341 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature