Haste makes waste: Decision making in patients with restless legs syndrome with and without augmentation.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To investigate decision making in patients with primary restless legs syndrome (RLS) with and without augmentation treated with dopaminergic medication.

Methods

A total of 64 non-demented RLS patients treated with dopaminergic medication with and without augmentation were included in this study. We used an information sampling task to assess how much evidence participants gather before making a decision. Performance was compared to the results of 21 healthy controls.

Results

All patients with and without augmentation gathered less information than healthy controls before making a decision (p<0.001), but there was no difference between the two patient groups (p = 1.0). Furthermore, both patient groups made more irrational decisions (e.g. decisions against th

SUBMITTER: Heim B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5381880 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature