Working memory in Parkinson's disease patients: clinical features and response to levodopa Memória de trabalho em pacientes com doença de Parkinson: características clínicas e resposta a levodopa
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the clinical features of the working memory (WM) in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients and to test the effect of levodopa on WM. METHOD: The paradigm was based on the 'n-back' tasks, which enables to study the level of executive demand (three levels of difficulty...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Academia Brasileira de Neurologia (ABNEURO)
2008-06-01
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Series: | Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2008000200001 |