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Attention and the control of posture and gait: a review of an emerging area of research
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New clinical assessment methods incorporating dual-task paradigms are helpful in revealing the effect of disease on the ability to allocate attention to postural tasks and appear to be sensitive measures in both predicting fall risk and in documenting recovery of stability.About:
This article is published in Gait & Posture.The article was published on 2002-08-01. It has received 2331 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Poison control & Balance (ability).read more
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Risk factors for falls in community-dwelling patients with Alzheimer's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies: walking with visuocognitive impairment may cause a fall.
TL;DR: Parkinsonism was a major risk factor for falls in community-dwelling patients with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia with Lewy bodies, and the use of hypnotics-anxiolytics and a worse score on the constructional task were significant and independent predictors of falling.
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Reducing falls in Parkinson's disease: interactions between donepezil and the 5-HT6 receptor antagonist idalopirdine on falls in a rat model of impaired cognitive control of complex movements.
TL;DR: This treatment may reduce fall propensity in PD patients via maintaining planned movement sequences in working memory and improving the vigor of executing such movements following brief periods of freezing of gait.
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Changes in event-related potentials during dual task walking in aging and Parkinson's disease.
Inbal Maidan,Firas Fahoum,Shiran Shustak,Eran Gazit,Dmitry Patashov,Dmitry Tchertov,Nir Giladi,Jeffrey M. Hausdorff,Anat Mirelman +8 more
TL;DR: Findings provide direct evidence of the physiological recruitment of attentional networks during walking and their impact by ageing and disease in older adults and patients with Parkinson's disease.
Functional mobility and executive function in elderly diabetics and non-diabetics* Mobilidade funcional e função executiva em idosos diabéticos e não diabéticos*
TL;DR: Diabetics presented worse performance in the functional mobility and in the verbal fluency test than non-diabetics elderly that suggests a greater risk of falls for the elderly with diabetes.
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Differing effects of prosaccades and antisaccades on postural stability.
Agathe Legrand,Karine Doré Mazars,Karine Doré Mazars,Julie Lazzareschi,Christelle Lemoine,Isabelle Olivier,Julien Barra,Maria Pia Bucci,Maria Pia Bucci +8 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that the different degree of attentional resources needed for performing prosaccade or antisaccade tasks are, most likely, responsible for the different effect on postural control.
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The Timed “Up & Go”: A Test of Basic Functional Mobility for Frail Elderly Persons
TL;DR: This study evaluated a modified, timed version of the “Get‐Up and Go” Test (Mathias et al, 1986) in 60 patients referred to a Geriatric Day Hospital and suggested that the timed “Up & Go’ test is a reliable and valid test for quantifying functional mobility that may also be useful in following clinical change over time.
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Predicting the probability for falls in community-dwelling older adults using the Timed Up & Go Test.
TL;DR: The TUG is a sensitive and specific measure for identifying community-dwelling adults who are at risk for falls and the ability to predict falls is not enhanced by adding a secondary task when performing the TUG.
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Motor Control: Theory and Practical Applications
TL;DR: This text bridges the gap between research/theory and practice by focusing on the scientific and experimental basis of new motor control theories by specifically illustrating how recent findings and theories can be applied to clinical practice.
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"Stops walking when talking" as a predictor of falls in elderly people.
TL;DR: This investigation investigated the usefulness of the sign “stops walking when talking” in predicting falls and found that some frail elderly patients stop walking when they start a conversation with a walking companion, presumably because walking demands attention and they stop when they are expected to do two things at once.
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The Effects of Two Types of Cognitive Tasks on Postural Stability in Older Adults With and Without a History of Falls
TL;DR: Results suggest that when postural stability is impaired, even relatively simple cognitive tasks can further impact balance and suggest that the allocation of attention during the performance of concurrent tasks is complex.