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Sensory attenuation in Parkinson’s disease is related to disease severity and dopamine dose

Noham Wolpe Orcid Logo, Jiaxiang Zhang Orcid Logo, Cristina Nombela Orcid Logo, James N. Ingram Orcid Logo, Daniel M. Wolpert Orcid Logo, Cam-CAN, James B. Rowe Orcid Logo

Scientific Reports, Volume: 8, Issue: 1

Swansea University Author: Jiaxiang Zhang Orcid Logo

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Abstract

Abnormal initiation and control of voluntary movements are among the principal manifestations of Parkinson’s disease (PD). However, the processes underlying these abnormalities and their potential remediation by dopamine treatment remain poorly understood. Normally, movements depend on the integrati...

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Published in: Scientific Reports
ISSN: 2045-2322
Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2018
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URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa61344
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Abstract: Abnormal initiation and control of voluntary movements are among the principal manifestations of Parkinson’s disease (PD). However, the processes underlying these abnormalities and their potential remediation by dopamine treatment remain poorly understood. Normally, movements depend on the integration of sensory information with the predicted consequences of action. This integration leads to a suppression in the intensity of predicted sensations, reflected in a ‘sensory attenuation’. We examined this integration process and its relation to dopamine in PD, by measuring sensory attenuation. Patients with idiopathic PD (n = 18) and population-derived controls (n = 175) matched a set of target forces applied to their left index finger by a torque motor. To match the force, participants either pressed with their right index finger (‘Direct’ condition) or moved a knob that controlled a motor through a linear potentiometer (‘Slider’ condition). We found that despite changes in sensitivity to different forces, overall sensory attenuation did not differ between medicated PD patients and controls. Importantly, the degree of attenuation was negatively related to PD motor severity but positively related to individual patient dopamine dose, as measured by levodopa dose equivalent. The results suggest that dopamine could regulate the integration of sensorimotor prediction with sensory information to facilitate the control of voluntary movements.
Keywords: Sensory Attenuation; Dose Dopamine; Target Force; Sensorimotor Prediction; Levodopa Equivalent Dose (LDE)
College: Faculty of Science and Engineering
Funders: The study was funded by grants to JBR from the Wellcome Trust (103838), Medical Research Council (SUAG/004 RG91365) and James S. McDonnell Foundation 21st Century Science Initiative: Scholar Award in Understanding Human Cognition. NW was funded by Gates Cambridge. DMW received grants from the Wellcome Trust (097803), Human Frontier Science Program and the Royal Society Noreen Murray Professorship in Neurobiology. Cam-CAN was supported by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BB/H008217/1). JZ was funded by the European Research Council Starting Grant (716321).
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