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Responsiveness to distracting stimuli, though increased in Parkinson's disease, is decreased in asymptomatic PINK1 and Parkin mutation carriers.
Neuropsychologia - 1 Jan 2010
Verleger Rolf, Hagenah Johann, Weiss Manuel, Ewers Thomas, Heberlein Ilse, Pramstaller Peter P, Siebner Hartwig R, Klein Christine
Abstract excerpt
Patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) are more sensitive than healthy controls to response-triggering by irrelevant flanking stimuli in speeded choice-response tasks. This increased responsiveness may either indicate a lack of executive control or reflect compensatory efforts to cope with the re...
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