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Article Dans Une Revue Perceptual and Motor Skills Année : 2002

Increased Visual Dependence in Parkinson's Disease

Jean Philippe Azulay
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Bernard Amblard
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Jean Pouget
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The present study tested the hypothesis that there is increased visual dependence perceptually in patients with Parkinson's disease. We also evaluated whether the visual control of posture and locomotion was related to perceptual visual field dependence. 21 patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease and 22 age-matched normal subjects were compared on judgment of the visual vertical using the Rod-and-Frame test with visual perturbations in the frontal plane with a tilted frame. Patients had significantly larger errors than controls in the estimation of the subjective vertical. In the same experiment, we performed a posture and a gait analysis in both groups. Posturographic evaluation did not indicate significant differences in unsteadiness between patients and controls. Gait analysis indicated a typical pattern of reduced velocity, shortened stride length, and normal step width. A significant correlation of .89 was found only in the Parkinsonian group between their errors in estimating subjective visual vertical and the Romberg quotient evaluating visual contribution to postural control. No specific locomotor pattern was correlated with visual dependence. Considering our results and previous reports on the visual control of posture, we conclude that patients with Parkinson's disease showed a significantly increased dependence upon visual information both perceptually and motorically, with an increased perceptual visual dependence in the patients being predictive of an equivalent visual dependence or visual control of posture and equilibrium.
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hal-03563358 , version 1 (09-02-2022)

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Serge Mesure, Jean Philippe Azulay, Bernard Amblard, Jean Pouget. Increased Visual Dependence in Parkinson's Disease. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 2002, 95 (3_suppl), pp.1106-1114. ⟨10.2466/pms.2002.95.3f.1106⟩. ⟨hal-03563358⟩
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