Deficits in visuospatial processing contribute to quantitative measures of freezing of gait in Parkinson's disease

Neuroscience

Volumn 221, Issue , 2012, Pages 151-156

  Nantel, J ^a   McDonald, J C ^a   Tan, S ^a   Bronte Stewart, H ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Executive cognitive function; Freezing of gait; Parkinson's disease; Visuospatial cognitive function

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATING STEPPING IN PLACE; ARTICLE; BLOCK DESIGN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FREEZING OF GAIT; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; INITIATON PERSEVERATION TEST; MALE; MATRIX REASONING TEST; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNIFIED PARKINSON DISEASE RATING SCALE; WISCONSIN CARD SORTING TEST;

AGED; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARKINSON DISEASE; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPACE PERCEPTION; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84864810289     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2012.07.007     Document Type: Article

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