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Issue title: Relationships among cognitive, behavioral and psychiatric symptoms in Parkinson's disease
Article type: Research Article
Authors: Cristinzio, Chiara | Bononi, Monica | Piacentini, Sylvie | Albanese, Alberto; | Bartolomeo, Paolo; ;
Affiliations: Dipartimento di Psicologia, Universitè Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy | Carlo Besta Neurological Institute, Milan, Italy | Istituto di Neurologia, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy | INSERM – UPMC UMRS 975, Brain and Spine Institute, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France | AP-HP, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Fédération de Neurologie, Paris, France
Note: [] Corresponding author: Paolo Bartolomeo, Centre de Recherche de l'Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière, Inserm U975; UPMC-Paris6, UMR_S 975; CNRS UMR 7225, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Bâtiment ICM, 75651 Paris Cedex 13, France. Tel.: +33 1 57 27 41 40 ou 1 57 27 41 66 (sécr.); E-mail [email protected]
Abstract: We tested the efficiency of three attentional systems (spatial orienting, phasic alerting and executive control) in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD), by using a modified version of the Attention Network Test, which employs acoustic tones to modulate phasic alertness. PD patients were generally slower than age-matched controls, but they showed a similar pattern of effects and interactions. Responses were faster with congruent than with incongruent stimuli (executive control), with valid visual cues than with invalid or no cues (orienting), and when acoustic tones preceded the target (alerting). This last effect was significantly larger in PD patients than in controls. We concluded that, for the present group of patients, the activity of attentional networks was relatively normal, if slowed. Slowed responses in PD may be improved by the use of acoustic stimuli, with potential clinical implications.
Keywords: Attention, alerting, orienting, executive control
DOI: 10.3233/BEN-129020
Journal: Behavioural Neurology, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 495-500, 2013
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