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Gait disturbance is a common disabling manifestation of Parkinson's disease
People with Parkinson's disease generally have more difficulty walking in an automatic manner (ie, not paying attention) than in producing goal-directed behaviors (often facilitated by the presence of explicit external or sometimes internal stimuli)
They hypothesized that different patterns of cortical activation would emerge for each different type of compensatory strategy
They included 18 participants with Parkinson's disease and gait impairment
To control for effects on sensory processing of cues, they calculated changes in relative power as the difference in power spectral density between walking and standing in each condition
They found that use of all three compensatory strategies elicited a decrease in beta-band activity in sensorimotor areas relative to uncued gait, indicating increased cortical activation
Occipital alpha-band activity decreased in the presence of external and internal cues and increased during action observation
Occipital alpha-band activity decreased in the presence of external and internal cues and increased during action observation
The significance of this study lies in the discovery that the application of compensatory strategies results in changes in cortical activity compared to uncued gait, which cannot be fully attributed to cued modalities of sensory processing
Application of compensatory strategies results in changes in cortical activity compared to silent gait that cannot be fully attributed to cued modalities of sensory processing
Solis‐Escalante T, Nonnekes J.
Cortical Correlates of Gait Compensation Strategies in Parkinson Disease.
Annals of Neurology
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