Sleep dysfunctions influence decision making in undemented Parkinson's disease patients: a study in a virtual supermarket

Giovanni Albani, Simona Raspelli, Laura Carelli, Lorenzo Priano, Riccardo Pignatti, Francesca Morganti, Andrea Gaggioli, Patrice L. Weiss, Rachel Kizony, Noomi Katz, Alessandro Mauro, Giuseppe Riva

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Abstract

In the early-middle stages of Parkinson's disease (PD), polysomnographic studies show early alterations of the structure of the sleep, which may explain frequent symptoms reported by patients, such as daytime drowsiness, loss of attention and concentration, feeling of tiredness. The aim of this study was to verify if there is a correlation between the sleep dysfunction and decision making ability. We used a Virtual Reality version of the Multiple Errand Test (VMET), developed using the NeuroVR free software (http://www.neurovr2.org), to evaluate decision-making ability in 12 PD not-demented patients and 14 controls. Five of our not-demented 12 PD patients showed abnormalities in the polysomnographic recordings associated to significant differences in the VMET performance.
Lingua originaleEnglish
pagine (da-a)8-10
Numero di pagine3
RivistaNot available
Volume163
DOI
Stato di pubblicazionePubblicato - 2011

Keywords

  • Decision Making
  • Dementia
  • Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted
  • Humans
  • Parkinson Disease
  • Polysomnography
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Sensitivity and Specificity
  • Sleep Disorders
  • User-Computer Interface

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