Levodopa improves handwriting and instrumental tasks in previously treated patients with Parkinson's disease
- Motor symptoms in patients with Parkinson's disease may be determined with instrumental tests and rating procedures. Their outcomes reflect the functioning and the impairment of the individual patient when patients are tested off and on dopamine substituting drugs. Objectives were to investigate whether the execution speed of a handwriting task, instrumentally assessed fine motor behavior, and rating scores improve after soluble levodopa application. 38 right-handed patients were taken off their regular drug therapy for at least 12 h before scoring, handwriting, and performance of instrumental devices before and 1 h after 100 mg levodopa intake. The outcomes of all performed procedures improved. The easy-to-perform handwriting task and the instrumental tests demand for fast and precise execution of movement sequences with considerable cognitive load in the domains' attention and concentration. These investigations may serve as additional tools for the testing of the dopaminergic response.
| Author: | Thomas MüllerORCiDGND, Ali HaratiGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:294-91120 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s00702-020-02246-3 |
| Parent Title (English): | Journal of neural transmission |
| Publisher: | Springer |
| Place of publication: | Wien |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2022/07/15 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2020/08/19 |
| Publishing Institution: | Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsbibliothek |
| Tag: | Handwriting; Levodopa; Motor behavior; Parkinson's disease |
| Volume: | 127 |
| First Page: | 1369 |
| Last Page: | 1376 |
| Note: | Dieser Beitrag ist auf Grund des DEAL-Springer-Vertrages frei zugänglich. |
| Institutes/Facilities: | St. Josef-Hospital Bochum, Neurologische Klinik |
| Huntington Zentrum NRW | |
| open_access (DINI-Set): | open_access |
| Licence (English): |  Creative Commons - CC BY 4.0 - Attribution 4.0 International |
