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Brain, Vol. 125, No. 9, 1980-1994, September 2002
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Response slowing in Parkinson’s disease

A psychophysiological analysis of premotor and motor processes

Kathy A. Low1, Jeff Miller2 and Esther Vierck2

1 University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA and 2 University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Correspondence to: Kathy Low, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61821, USA; or Jeff Miller, Department of Psychology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand E-mail: lowka{at}uiuc.edu or miller{at}otago.ac.nz

The mechanisms responsible for reaction time slowing in Parkinson’s disease were investigated using movement-related potentials in a choice reaction time task. Parkinson’s disease patients and control subjects were required to respond with the left or right hand to indicate whether a visual stimulus was relatively large or small. The difficulty of the size discrimination was manipulated, as was the complexity of the manual response (single key press versus sequence of three key presses). Behavioural responses of Parkinson’s disease patients were slower than those of control subjects, especially when complex responses were required. Moreover, the timing of movement-related potentials indicated that motor processes clearly required extra time, relative to control subjects, for Parkinson’s disease patients making complex responses. In addition, delayed onset of the movement-related potentials indicated that one or more premotor processes are also slowed in these patients.


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