Journal
MOVEMENT DISORDERS
Volume 26, Issue 8, Pages 1545-1548Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/mds.23663
Keywords
Parkinson's disease; repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation; cognitive; Stroop Test; Frontal Assessment Battery; inferior frontal gyrus
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- Czech Ministry of Education [MSM 0021622404]
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Background: We studied whether 1 session of high-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) applied sequentially over both the left and right inferior frontal gyri (IFG) would enhance performance in tests evaluating the ability to inhibit habitual responses (Stroop test, ST; Frontal Assessment Battery, FAB) in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). Methods: Ten nondemented PD patients (6 men, 4 women; age, 66 +/- 6 years; disease duration, 5.4 +/- 2.45 years) entered the randomized, sham stimulation-controlled study with a crossover design. The ST and the FAB were performed prior to and immediately after an appropriate rTMS session. Results: The active but not sham rTMS induced significant improvement in all ST subtests (word, color, color-word). Conversely, the calculated Stroop interference and the FAB scores remained unchanged. Conclusions: In PD patients, rTMS of the IFG increased the speed of cognitive processing in both the congruent and incongruent conditions of the ST. (C) 2011 Movement Disorder Society
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