EJN Featured article on Parkinson’s disease

This study revealed that visual function did not significantly account for changes to gait parameters in Parkinson’s disease patients, but rather worked indirectly through attention, whilst poor attention directly related to both poor saccade number and lower gait velocity. These results suggest that while reduced visual function reduces adaptive gait, it does so indirectly through the interaction of visual attention.

This Featured Article has an accompanying Commentary: (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ejn.13616/full).

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