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ArticleParkinson's disease2017

Technology-Assisted Rehabilitation of Writing Skills in Parkinson's Disease: Visual Cueing versus Intelligent Feedback.

Evelien Nackaerts, Alice Nieuwboer, Elisabetta Farella

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Article in Parkinson's disease, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Rehabilitative interventions for impaired handwriting in people with Parkinson's disease: a scoping review.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2023
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  2. Novel insights into the effects of levodopa on the up- and downstrokes of writing sequences.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2022
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  3. Treating Speech Movement Hypokinesia in Parkinson's Disease: Does Movement Size Matter?Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2018
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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Evelien NackaertsNeuromotor Rehabilitation Research Group, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-6580-4902
Alice NieuwboerNeuromotor Rehabilitation Research Group, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0003-1193-6229
Elisabetta FarellaE3DA Research Unit, ICT Center, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-9047-9868

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent research showed that visual cueing can have both beneficial and detrimental effects on handwriting of patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) and healthy controls depending on the circumstances. Hence, using other sensory modalities to deliver cueing or feedback may be a valuable alternative. Therefore, the current study compared the effects of short-term training with either continuous visual cues or intermittent intelligent verbal feedback. Ten PD patients and nine healthy controls were randomly assigned to one of these training modes. To assess transfer of learning, writing performance was assessed in the absence of cueing and feedback on both trained and untrained writing sequences. The feedback pen and a touch-sensitive writing tablet were used for testing. Both training types resulted in improved writing amplitudes for the trained and untrained sequences. In conclusion, these results suggest that the feedback pen is a valuable tool to implement writing training in a tailor-made fashion for people with PD. Future studies should include larger sample sizes and different subgroups of PD for long-term training with the feedback pen.

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