L-Dopa infusion does not improve explicit sequence learning in Parkinson's disease

Parkinsonism and Related Disorders

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 146-151

  Ghilardi, M Felice ^a   Feigin, Andrew S ^b   Battaglia, Fortunato ^a   Silvestri, Giulia ^a   Mattis, Paul ^b   Eidelberg, David ^b   Di Rocco, Alessandro ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b North Shore Long Island Jewish Research Institute Manhasset ^*  (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Cognition; L Dopa infusion; Learning; Parkinson's disease

Indexed keywords

CARBIDOPA PLUS LEVODOPA; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; LEVODOPA; SELEGILINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG INFUSION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNIFIED PARKINSON DISEASE RATING SCALE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTIPARKINSON AGENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEVODOPA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARKINSONIAN DISORDERS; SERIAL LEARNING; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33947202570     PISSN: 13538020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2006.08.006     Document Type: Article

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