Freezing of gait in Parkinson's disease is related to impaired motor switching during stepping

Movement Disorders

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1090-1097

  Smulders, Katrijn ^a,b   Esselink, Rianne A ^a   Bloem, Bastiaan R ^a   Cools, Roshan ^a,c  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b HAN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

cognitive control; freezing of gait; gait; set shifting; stepping

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FREEZING OF GAIT; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; AGED; COMPLICATION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

AGED; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PARKINSON DISEASE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84922799519     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.26133     Document Type: Article

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