Code
3E011407
Duration
01 October 2007 → 30 September 2011
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Social sciences
- Biological and physiological psychology
- Cognitive science and intelligent systems
- Developmental psychology and ageing
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Medical and health sciences
- Neurosciences
- Neurosciences
- Neurosciences
Keywords
attention
Parkinson disease
neglects
hallucinations
Project description
Parkinson's disease typically manifests itself as an asymmetric disease caused by asymmetric dopaminergic depletion in the substantia nigra. We will examine the role of dopaminergic regulation in attention and visual hallucinations by comparing patients with predominantly left-sided versus right-sided motor symptoms. The relation with anatomical (MRI) and metabolic (DAT-Spect) brain correlates will be examined.