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8127427
TITLE
Event-related potentials associated with covert orientation of visual attention in Parkinson's disease.
ABSTRACT
Event-related potentials (ERPs) were measured in a group of patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease and compared with a matched control group during a task involving covert orientation of visual attention. Central warning cues directed attention to the probable location of a lateralized signal that required a button-press response. Parkinson patients had enhanced post-cue P1 (at Oz) and P2 (at Cz) amplitudes, delayed N1 (at Oz) latencies, and diminished CNV amplitudes. Post-target amplitudes were similar to controls, except for an enhanced P1 to invalidly cued targets, and delayed N1 and P3 target latencies. These results indicate that Parkinson patients, in addition to their motor deficits, process spatial cues more effortfully and slowly, have impaired response preparation, and process imperative stimuli more slowly.
DATE PUBLISHED
1993 Dec
HISTORY
PUBSTATUS PUBSTATUSDATE
pubmed 1993/12/01
medline 1993/12/01 00:01
entrez 1993/12/01 00:00
AUTHORS
NAME COLLECTIVENAME LASTNAME FORENAME INITIALS AFFILIATION AFFILIATIONINFO
Wright MJ Wright M J MJ Department of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Geffen GM Geffen G M GM
Geffen LB Geffen L B LB
INVESTIGATORS
JOURNAL
VOLUME: 31
ISSUE: 12
TITLE: Neuropsychologia
ISOABBREVIATION: Neuropsychologia
YEAR: 1993
MONTH: Dec
DAY:
MEDLINEDATE:
SEASON:
CITEDMEDIUM: Print
ISSN: 0028-3932
ISSNTYPE: Print
MEDLINE JOURNAL
MEDLINETA: Neuropsychologia
COUNTRY: England
ISSNLINKING: 0028-3932
NLMUNIQUEID: 0020713
PUBLICATION TYPE
PUBLICATIONTYPE TEXT
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
COMMENTS AND CORRECTIONS
GRANTS
GENERAL NOTE
KEYWORDS
MESH HEADINGS
DESCRIPTORNAME QUALIFIERNAME
Aged
Animals
Attention physiology
Cerebral Cortex physiopathology
Contingent Negative Variation physiology
Cues physiology
Dominance, Cerebral physiology
Evoked Potentials, Visual physiology
Female physiology
Guinea Pigs physiology
Humans physiology
Male physiology
Middle Aged physiology
Orientation physiology
Parkinson Disease physiopathology
Psychomotor Performance physiology
Reaction Time physiology
Visual Fields physiology
SUPPLEMENTARY MESH
GENE SYMBOLS
CHEMICALS
OTHER ID's