Abstract
The aim of this study was to investigate the feasibility of using two computer-administered neuropsychological tasks in a clinical trial involving participants with Parkinson's disease without dementia. The tasks, probabilistic reversal learning (PRL) and serial reaction time (SRT), target dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (SRT) and ventral striatal-orbitofrontal (PRL) functioning respectively. Participants were 53 adults with idiopathic Parkinson's disease who completed both the SRT and PRL tasks at baseline in a clinical trial. Repeated measures were examined only for the placebo group (n=20). No participants were removed from analyses due to inability to complete the tasks, and most had fewer than 10% of trials culled due to slow reaction times. Response accuracy on PRL was 81.98% and 66.65% for the two stages of the task respectively. Disease duration was associated with SRT relearning. Disease duration and stage were associated with initial learning on PRL, and there was a trend towards disease stage predicting greater errors on PRL. Among participants in the placebo group, practice effects were seen on PRL (Phase 1 errors) and SRT (relearning). These results provide initial evidence for the clinical feasibility of computerized PRL and SRT tasks in clinical trials in Parkinson's disease.
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