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Planning and spatial working memory in Parkinson's disease.

R G Morris1, J J Downes, B J Sahakian

  • 1Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, UK.

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry
|June 1, 1988
PubMed
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Medicated Parkinson's disease patients showed no deficits in basic planning abilities. However, they exhibited a specific planning deficit in "thinking" time, suggesting an attention-switching issue.

Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neurology

Background:

  • Parkinson's disease (PD) affects motor control and is increasingly recognized to impact cognitive functions.
  • Planning, a higher-level cognitive function, is crucial for goal-directed behavior and may be impaired in PD.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate planning abilities in medicated Parkinson's disease patients.
  • To identify specific deficits in planning processes, distinguishing them from motor impairments.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a computerized version of Shallice's Tower of London task.
  • Assessed baseline abilities including plan execution, strategy generation, and spatial working memory.
  • Analyzed "thinking" times, excluding motor initiation and execution times.

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Main Results:

  • Parkinson's disease patients were unimpaired in baseline cognitive measures relevant to planning.
  • Performance on the Tower of London task, measured by moves to solve, was comparable between groups.
  • A significant planning deficit emerged in "thinking" times for the Parkinson's disease group.

Conclusions:

  • Medicated Parkinson's disease patients exhibit a specific deficit in planning, independent of motor symptoms.
  • Findings suggest a potential role for the frontal lobes and basal ganglia in this planning deficit.
  • An attention-switching hypothesis is proposed to explain the observed planning impairment in Parkinson's disease.