| Literature DB >> 27091513 |
Jiaxiang Zhang1,2, Cristina Nombela3, Noham Wolpe2,3, Roger A Barker3, James B Rowe2,3.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Parkinson's disease (PD) can cause impulsivity with premature responses, but there are several potential mechanisms. We proposed a distinction between poor decision-making and the distortion of temporal perception. Both effects may be present and interact, but with different clinical and pharmacological correlates.Entities:
Keywords: Parkinson's disease; computational modeling; response time; temporal bisection; temporal trisection
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Year: 2016 PMID: 27091513 PMCID: PMC4988382 DOI: 10.1002/mds.26631
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Mov Disord ISSN: 0885-3185 Impact factor: 10.338
Demographic details of Parkinson's patients and controls
| Patients, n = 18 | Controls, n = 19 | Statistic, | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Male/female | 12/6 | 11/8 | .58 |
| Age | 69.18 (48‐81) | 67.47 (55‐76) | .58 |
| Disease duration, y | 12.48 (6‐26) | – | – |
| MMSE | 28.28 (23‐30) | 29.84 (29‐30) | .0001 |
| ACE‐R | 91.72 (84‐98) | 97.26 (91‐100) | .001 |
| UPDRS | 33.5 (23‐51) | – | – |
| LEDD, mg/day | 1446 (640‐2610) | – | – |
Group difference was evaluated by χ2 test (for gender) or t‐test (for age, MMSE, and Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination). ACE‐R, Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination Revised; LEDD, levodopa equivalent daily dose.
Figure 1A: Structure of a single trial in the temporal bisection (left) and temporal trisection (right) tasks. B: The presented durations in the bisection and trisection tasks. Participants were familiarized with the standards before and during the experiments. C: Computational model for temporal discrimination. The model assumes that on each trial, the subjective perception of the duration standards and the test duration are sampled from normal distributions with means equal to the true physical duration and variances proportional to the means (scaled by σ). If the bisection point is B, the model predicts a “short” response when the test duration is smaller than B‐ε/2, and a “long” response when the duration is larger than B + ε/2. For a test duration between [B‐ε/2, B + ε/2], the model predicts a random response. The model prediction of decision latency is a function of the distance between the test duration and the nearest standard.
Figure 2The behavioral responses of Parkinson's disease patients and controls in temporal discrimination tasks. A: Proportion of long responses in the bisection task. B: Proportion of medium responses in the trisection task. C: Mean response time in the bisection task. D: Mean response time in the trisection task. Error bars denote standard errors of the mean across participants. Dashed lines and shaded areas denote model‐predicted means and standard errors, which were obtained by averaging the results from 100 simulations with best‐fitted model parameters for each participant. [Color figure can be viewed in the online issue, which is available at wileyonlinelibrary.com.]
Figure 3Correlations between the Weber ratio and levodopa equivalent daily dose in PD patients in the bisection task (A) and the trisection task in the short‐medium range (B). C: Correlation between the UPDRS and response time difference in the bisection task. D: Correlation between the UPDRS and response time difference in the trisection task. Grey data points and error bars: means and standard errors of controls.
Figure 4Model parameter values (see the Methods section for parameter definitions). Error bars denote standard errors of the mean across participants. Parameters θ , θ , and θ refer to bisection point biases in the bisection task, trisection task at short‐medium duration, and trisection task at medium‐long duration, respectively.