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Pupillary Response to Cognitive Demand in Parkinson’s Disease: A Pilot Study

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, April 2018
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Title
Pupillary Response to Cognitive Demand in Parkinson’s Disease: A Pilot Study
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Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, April 2018
DOI 10.3389/fnagi.2018.00090
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Melike Kahya, Sanghee Moon, Kelly E. Lyons, Rajesh Pahwa, Abiodun E. Akinwuntan, Hannes Devos

Abstract

Previous studies have shown that pupillary response, a physiological measure of cognitive workload, reflects cognitive demand in healthy younger and older adults. However, the relationship between cognitive workload and cognitive demand in Parkinson's disease (PD) remains unclear. The aim of this pilot study was to examine the pupillary response to cognitive demand in a letter-number sequencing (LNS) task between 16 non-demented individuals with PD (age, median (Q1-Q3): 68 (62-72); 10 males) and 10 control participants (age: 63 (59-67); 2 males), matched for age, education, and Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MOCA) scores. A mixed model analysis was employed to investigate cognitive workload changes as a result of incremental cognitive demand for both groups. As expected, no differences were found in cognitive scores on the LNS between groups. Cognitive workload, exemplified by greater pupil dilation, increased with incremental cognitive demand in both groups (p = 0.003). No significant between-group (p = 0.23) or interaction effects were found (p = 0.45). In addition, individuals who achieved to complete the task at higher letter-number (LN) load responded differently to increased cognitive demand compared with those who completed at lower LN load (p < 0.001), regardless of disease status. Overall, the findings indicated that pupillary response reflects incremental cognitive demand in non-demented people with PD and healthy controls. Further research is needed to investigate the pupillary response to incremental cognitive demand of PD patients with dementia compared to non-demented PD and healthy controls. Highlights -Pupillary response reflects cognitive demand in both non-demented people with PD and healthy controls-Although not significant due to insufficient power, non-demented individuals with PD had increased cognitive workload compared to the healthy controls throughout the testing-Pupillary response may be a valid measure of cognitive demand in non-demented individuals with PD-In future, pupillary response might be used to detect cognitive impairment in individuals with PD.

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Unknown 40 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 18%
Student > Master 6 15%
Student > Bachelor 6 15%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 10%
Researcher 3 8%
Other 3 8%
Unknown 11 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 6 15%
Psychology 5 13%
Neuroscience 4 10%
Sports and Recreations 3 8%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 5%
Other 5 13%
Unknown 15 38%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 June 2018.
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#2,513,893
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Outputs from Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
#820
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#51,004
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Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
#27
of 111 outputs
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