Evidence from a line bisection task for visuospatial neglect in Left Hemiparkinson's disease

被引:64
作者
Lee, AC [1 ]
Harris, JP [1 ]
Atkinson, EA [1 ]
Fowler, MS [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Reading, Dept Psychol, Reading RG6 6AL, Berks, England
关键词
bisection; Hemiparkinsonism; neglect; Parkinson's disease; visuospatial tasks;
D O I
10.1016/S0042-6989(01)00129-8
中图分类号
Q189 [神经科学];
学科分类号
071006 ;
摘要
The perception of extrapersonal space in Parkinson's disease was examined with two line bisection tasks. One was a conventional pencil and paper test, the line bisection section of the Behavioural Inattention Test. In the other, the stimuli were displayed on a large (2 x 2.4 m) screen and varied in length (48-480 mm) and also in location on the screen (left, centre and right). They were presented at two viewing distances (0.6 and 1.5 m). Subjects remotely adjusted the position of a cursor until it appeared to bisect the stimulus line, using two push-buttons, one in each hand. The PD participants (n = 18) had a marked asymmetry of motor symptoms. They were divided into two groups. those with predominantly left-sided motor symptoms (LPD, n = 9), and those with predominantly right-sided motor symptoms (RPD, n = 9). The control group (n = 9) were all right-handed. No significant differences between the groups were found on the BIT bisection task. In contrast. when the stimuli were presented on the screen, LPD subjects showed a significant rightward bias in their settings of the cursor, particularly for lines on the left and centre of the screen, which was greater, the longer the stimulus line. The RPD group bisected lines slightly to the left, in common with the control group (pseudo-neglect). In a second experiment, Parkinsonian subjects repeated this task, but with the buttons reversed between the hands, so that the cursor was moved to the left by the right hand, and vice versa, but the pattern of results was the same as in the first experiment. The data suggest a small but reliable neglect in left hemiparkinson's disease, which is contralateral to the non-dominant (and probably worse affected) hemisphere. The dissociation between the response and the bisection error suggests a visuospatial impairment in LPD. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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