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@ARTICLE{Nackaerts:857147,
author = {Nackaerts, Evelien and Michely, Jochen and Heremans, Elke
and Swinnen, Stephan and Smits-Engelsman, Bouwien and
Vandenberghe, Wim and Grefkes, Christian and Nieuwboer,
Alice},
title = {{B}eing on {T}arget: {V}isual {I}nformation during
{W}riting {A}ffects {E}ffective {C}onnectivity in
{P}arkinson’s {D}isease},
journal = {Neuroscience},
volume = {371},
issn = {0306-4522},
address = {Amsterdam [u.a.]},
publisher = {Elsevier Science},
reportid = {FZJ-2018-06391},
pages = {484 - 494},
year = {2018},
abstract = {A common motor symptom of Parkinson’s disease (PD) is
micrographia, characterized by a decrease in writing
amplitude. Despite the relevance of this impairment for
activities of daily living, the underlying neural network
abnormalities and the impact of cueing strategies on brain
connectivity are unknown. Therefore, we investigated the
effects of visual cues on visuomotor network interactions
during handwriting in PD and healthy controls (HCs).
Twenty-eight patients with early disease, ON dopaminergic
medication, and 14 age-matched controls performed a
pre-writing task with and without visual cues in the
scanner. Patients displayed weaker right visuo-parietal
coupling than controls, suggesting impaired visuomotor
integration during writing. Surprisingly, cueing did not
have the expected positive effects on writing performance.
Patients and controls, however, did activate similar
networks during cued and uncued writing. During cued
writing, the stronger influence of both visual and motor
areas on the left superior parietal lobe suggested that
visual cueing induced greater visual steering. In the
absence of cues, there was enhanced coupling between
parietal and supplementary motor areas (SMA) in line with
previous findings in HCs during uncued motor tasks. In
conclusion, the present study showed that patients with PD,
despite their compromised brain function, were able to shift
neural networks similar to controls. However, it seemed that
visual cues provided a greater accuracy constraint on
handwriting rather than offering unequivocal beneficial
effects. Altogether, the results suggest that the
effectiveness of using compensatory neural networks through
applying external stimuli is task dependent and may
compromise motor control during writing.},
cin = {INM-3},
ddc = {610},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)INM-3-20090406},
pnm = {572 - (Dys-)function and Plasticity (POF3-572)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-572},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:29294336},
UT = {WOS:000425876200039},
doi = {10.1016/j.neuroscience.2017.12.027},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/857147},
}