Movement disorders are particularly prevalent in the elderly. Disorders of gait and mobility
are second only to cognitive impairment as the most frequent neurologic effects of agingm In …

Introduction Bradyphrenia is a key cognitive feature in Parkinson's disease (PD). There is no
consensus on whether information processing speed is impaired or not beyond motor …

Inspection time (IT) is a simple information processing paradigm dependent on a
participant's ability to identify physical properties of a stimulus presented for a specified time …

Introduction: Motor slowness (bradykinesia) is a core feature of Parkinson's disease (PD). It
is often assumed that patients show mental slowness (bradyphrenia) as well; however …

Temporal information processing controls many aspects of human mental activity and may
be assessed by examining perception of temporal order in the tens of milliseconds time …

DBS is an increasingly offered advanced treatment for Parkinson's disease (PD).
Neuropsychological assessment is considered to be an important part of the screening for …

To investigate the bradyphrenia hypothesis of Parkinson's disease (PD), 32 patients
undertook an information-processing task which measured their efficiency of temporal order …

Sustained volitional attention and working memory capacity was examined for the first time
in people with Friedreich ataxia (FRDA). We administered subtests of the Test of Everyday …

In healthy adults, deficits in identifying a second target following a previously attended target
in Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP) occur between intertarget intervals of …

This chapter reviews the extant twin studies reporting on the heritability of processing speed.
In general the heritability of this trait is modest, but its proximity to actual neurobiology (eg …