title: Is there a specific visuo-spatial impairment in Parkinsonians?
abstract: Twenty-five non-demented patients with mild, idiopathic, Parkinson's disease were compared with 25 age and education matched normal controls on a visuo-spatial performance task, whose characteristics were directional forecast, with minimal motor requirement and a maximal spatial load. No statistical support was found for the existence of spatial impairment in these patients.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007806:Language Disorders / Q000150:complications; D008297:Male; D008569:Memory Disorders / Q000150:complications; D008570:Memory, Short-Term; D008875:Middle Aged; D010300:Parkinson Disease / Q000150:complications*; D010468:Perceptual Disorders / Q000150:complications*; D011596:Psychomotor Disorders / Q000150:complications; D013028:Space Perception