Freezing of gait is associated with a mismatch between motor imagery and motor execution in narrow doorways, not with failure to judge doorway passability

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 3981-3988

  Cohen, Rajal G ^a   Chao, Amanda ^b   Nutt, John G ^a   Horak, Fay B ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Affordance; Body schema; Freezing of gait; Internal representation; Motor imagery; Parkinson's disease

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FREEZING OF GAIT; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; IMAGINATION; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR IMAGERY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROIMAGING; PARKINSON DISEASE; TIME; WALKING;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FREEZING; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; IMAGERY (PSYCHOTHERAPY); IMAGINATION; JUDGMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARKINSON DISEASE;

EID: 81855175857     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.10.014     Document Type: Article

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