Abstract:
:To address the hypothesis that Parkinson's disease (PD) patients have deficits in controlling acceleration, a drawing task was used in which target size, frequency, and weight of pen were manipulated. In accordance with previous results, it was found that, relative to controls, PD patients produced movements at the required frequency, but moved significantly slower, produced less acceleration, and drew smaller-than-required stroke sizes. This resulted in smaller-than-required movement amplitudes, suggesting that hypometria and bradykinesia in drawing and/or handwriting are related. Patients were found to perform similarly to controls when the target size was 1 cm. However, their performance became more dissimilar at greater stroke lengths. In addition to the aforementioned effects it was found that movement amplitude error was less when the pen was 20 times heavier than the normal pen and that the increased load may dampen abnormal limb-stiffness characteristics induced by PD.
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Exp Brain Resjournal_title
Experimental brain researchauthors
Broderick MP,Van Gemmert AW,Shill HA,Stelmach GEdoi
10.1007/s00221-009-1925-zsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
2009-08-01 00:00:00pages
223-33issue
3eissn
0014-4819issn
1432-1106journal_volume
197pub_type
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