論文

査読有り 国際誌
2020年4月28日

Larger, but not better, motor adaptation ability inherent in medicated Parkinson's disease patients revealed by a smart-device-based study.

Scientific reports
  • Ken Takiyama
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  • Takeshi Sakurada
  • ,
  • Masahiro Shinya
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  • Takaaki Sato
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  • Hirofumi Ogihara
  • ,
  • Taiki Komatsu

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開始ページ
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終了ページ
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記述言語
英語
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研究論文(学術雑誌)
DOI
10.1038/s41598-020-63717-x

Generating appropriate motor commands is an essential brain function. To achieve proper motor control in diverse situations, predicting future states of the environment and body and modifying the prediction are indispensable. The internal model is a promising hypothesis about brain function for generating and modifying the prediction. Although several findings support the involvement of the cerebellum in the internal model, recent results support the influence of other related brain regions on the internal model. A representative example is the motor adaptation ability in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients. Although this ability provides some hints about how dopamine deficits and other PD symptoms affect the internal model, previous findings are inconsistent; some reported a deficit in the motor adaptation ability in PD patients, but others reported that the motor adaptation ability of PD patients is comparable to that of healthy controls. A possible factor causing this inconsistency is the difference in task settings, resulting in  different cognitive strategies in each study. Here, we demonstrate a larger, but not better, motor adaptation ability in PD patients than in healthy controls while reducing the involvement of cognitive strategies and concentrating on implicit motor adaptation abilities. This study utilizes a smart-device-based experiment that enables motor adaptation experiments anytime and anywhere with less cognitive strategy involvement. The PD patients showed a significant response to insensible environmental changes, but the response was not necessarily suitable for adapting to the changes. Our findings support compensatory cerebellar functions in PD patients from the perspective of motor adaptation.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-63717-x
PubMed
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32346067
PubMed Central
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7188883
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1038/s41598-020-63717-x
  • PubMed ID : 32346067
  • PubMed Central 記事ID : PMC7188883

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