Voluntary Saccade Training Protocol in Persons With Parkinson's Disease and Healthy Adults.

ABSTRACT: Background: Voluntary saccade function gradually decreases during both the progression of Parkinson's disease (PD) and neurologically healthy adult aging. Voluntary saccades display decreased length and increased saccade latency, duration, and the number of compensatory saccades in aging and PD. Saccades serve as the key eye movement for maintaining salient features of the visual environment on the high visual acuity fovea of the retina. Abnormal saccade behavior has been associated with freezing of gait in PD. We have not identified any studies that have investigated improvement in voluntary saccade function using voluntary saccade training. Objective: We report an experimental protocol that tests a training paradigm following the principle of specificity to improve voluntar

SUBMITTER: Camacho PB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6459894 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature