ArticleJournal of movement disorders2020
Comparison of Spontaneous Motor Tempo during Finger Tapping, Toe Tapping and Stepping on the Spot in People with and without Parkinson's Disease.
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- Comparison of auditory cueing in toe tapping and gait in persons with Parkinson's disease.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- Which factors modulate spontaneous motor tempo? A systematic review of the literature.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Review
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- Spontaneous motor tempo contributes to preferred music tempo regardless of music familiarity.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- A general procedure to measure the pacing of body movements timed to music and metronome in younger and older adults.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Rhythm and groove as cognitive mechanisms of dance intervention in Parkinson's disease.PloS one · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectiveSpontaneous motor tempo (SMT), observed in walking, tapping and clapping, tends to occur around 2 Hz. Initiating and controlling movement can be difficult for people with Parkinson's (PWP), but studies have not identified whether PWP differ from controls in SMT. For community-based interventions, e.g. dancing, it would be helpful to know a baseline SMT to optimize the tempi of cued activities. Therefore, this study compared finger tapping (FT), toe tapping (TT) and stepping 'on the spot' (SS) in PWP and two groups of healthy controls [age-matched controls (AMC) and young healthy controls (YHC)], as SMT is known to change with age.
methodsParticipants (PWP; n = 30, AMC; n = 23, YHC; n = 35) were asked to tap or step on the spot at a natural pace for two trials lasting 40 seconds. The central 30 seconds were averaged for analyses using mean inter-onset intervals (IOI) and coefficient of variation (CoV) to measure rate and variability respectively.
resultsPWP had faster SMT than both control groups, depending on the movement modality: FT, F(2, 87) = 7.92, p < 0.01 (PWP faster than YHC); TT, F(2, 87) = 4.89, p = 0.01 (PWP faster than AMC); and SS, F(2, 77) = 3.26, p = 0.04 (PWP faster than AMC). PWP had higher CoV (more variable tapping) than AMC in FT only, F(2, 87) = 4.10, p = 0.02.
conclusionThis study provides the first direct comparison of SMT between PWP and two control groups for different types of movements.
resultssuggest SMT is generally faster in PWP than control groups, and more variable when measured with finger tapping compared to stepping on the spot.
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