The development of a new evaluation systems for motor function of patients with Parkinson's disease

• Project/Area Number: 19730469
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Experimental psychology
• Research Institution: Chuo University
• Principal Investigator: MIDORIKAWA Akira Chuo University, 文学部, 准教授 (90421833)
• Project Period (FY): 2007 – 2009
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2009)
• Budget Amount: ¥2,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000); Fiscal Year 2009: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000); Fiscal Year 2008: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000); Fiscal Year 2007: ¥1,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000)
• Keywords: 脳神経疾患 / 老化 / 臨床 / リズム / パーキンソン病 / 音楽療法 / リハビリテーション / 歩行 / 手指タッピング / 音楽療怯

Research Abstract

Patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) could maintain tapping speed in the finger tapping paradigm when the target stimuli were presented. However, in case of the speed of the target was incongruent with tapping speed ; PD patients could not keep ideal speed. These results imply that PD patient have not only motor disturbances but they also have deficit of internal timing formation mechanism.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Does the Brain Prefer Geometrical Homogeneity? (2010)
  • Author(s): Akira Midorikawa, Mitsuru Kawamura
  • Journal Title: Behavioural Neurology (in press)
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] 脳梁の障害にはどのような症候を起こすのでしょうか.また病因について教えて下さい (2010)
  • Author(s): 緑川晶
  • Journal Title: Modern Physician 30 Pages: 133-135
• [Journal Article] てんかんの高次脳機能障害について教えてください.-過性全健忘はてんかんの一種でしょうか (2010)
  • Author(s): 緑川晶
  • Journal Title: Modern Physician 30 Pages: 38-40
• [Journal Article] Does the Brain Prefer Geometrical Homogeneity? (2009)
  • Author(s): Akira Midorikawa, Mitsuru Kawamura
  • Journal Title: Behavioural Neurology (印刷中)
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Residual Perception of Moving Objects: Dissociation of Moving and Static Objects in a Case of Posterior Cortical Atrophy. (2008)
  • Author(s): Akira Midorikawa, Katsuki Nakamura, Toshihiko Nagao, Mitsuru Kawamura
  • Journal Title: European Neurology 59 Pages: 152-158
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Impairment of motor dexterity in schizophrenia assessed by a novel finger-movement test. (2008)
  • Author(s): Akira Midorikawa, Ryota Hashimoto, Hiroko Noguchi, Osamu Saito, Hiroshi Kunugi, Katsuki Nakamura
  • Journal Title: Psychiatry Research 159 Pages: 281-289
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Dementia and painting in patients from different cultural backgrounds. (2008)
  • Author(s): Akira Midorikawa, Toshio Fukutake, Mitsuru Kawamura
  • Journal Title: European Neurology 605 Pages: 224-229
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Dementia and painting in patients from different cultural backgrounds (2008)
  • Author(s): Akira Midorikawa, Toshio Fukutake, Mitsuru Kawamura
  • Journal Title: European Neurology 60[5] Pages: 224-229
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Residual perception of moving objects: Dissociation of moving and static objects in a case of Posterior Cortical Atrophy (2008)
  • Author(s): Akira, Midorikawa・Katsuki, Nakamura・Takehiko, Nagao・Mitsuru, Kawamura
  • Journal Title: European Neurology 59[3-4] Pages: 152-158
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Recovery of long-term anterograde amnesia, but not retrograde amnesia, after initiation of an anti-epileptic drug in a case of transient epileptic amnesia. (2007)
  • Author(s): Akira Midorikawa, Mitsuru Kawamura
  • Journal Title: Neurocase 13
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] 失音楽 (2007)
  • Author(s): 緑川 晶
  • Journal Title: Brain and Nerve 59[8] Pages: 865-870
  • NAID: 40015598434
• [Presentation] Cognitive Functions of a Patient with Fronto-temporal Dementia (FTD) having Superior Painting Skills is similar to that of Autistic Savant Syndrome (2009)
  • Author(s): Akira Midorikawa, Mitsuru Kawamura
  • Organizer: The International Neuropsychological Society, Finnish Neuropsychological Society, Joint Mid-Year Meeting
  • Place of Presentation: Helsinki, Finland
  • Year and Date: 2009-07-30
• [Presentation] Cognitive Functions of a Patient with Fronto-temporal Dementia (FTD) having Superior Painting Skills is similar to that of Autistic Savant Syndrome. (2009)
  • Author(s): Akira Midorikawa, Mitsuru Kawamura
  • Organizer: The International Neuropsychological Society, Finnish Neuropsychological Society, Joint Mid-Year Meeting
  • Place of Presentation: Helsinki, Finland
• [Presentation] Unilateral motor dyssynchronization to periodical visual stimuli. (2008)
  • Author(s): Akira Midorikawa, Mitsuru Kawamura: A novel disconnection syndrome
  • Organizer: 36th Annual INS Meeting
  • Place of Presentation: Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA
• [Presentation] Emergence of geometrical ability in a case of frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD). (2008)
  • Author(s): Akira Midorikawa, Mitsuru Kawamura
  • Organizer: XXX International Neuropsychological Society Mid-year Meeting
  • Place of Presentation: Buenos Aires, Argentina
• [Presentation] Anovel disconnection syndrome: Unilateral motor dyssynchronization to periodical visual stimuli (2008)
  • Author(s): Akira, Midorikawa, ・Mitsuru, Kawamura・Katsuki Nakamura
  • Organizer: 36th Annual INS Meeting
  • Place of Presentation: Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA
• [Book] 心の科学-理論から現実社会へ- (2010)
  • Author(s): 兵藤宗吉, 緑川晶
  • Total Pages: 191
  • Publisher: ナカニシヤ出版
• [Book] 心の科学-理論から現実社会へ- (2010)
  • Author(s): 兵藤宗吉, 緑川晶(編)
  • Total Pages: 191
  • Publisher: ナカニシヤ出版
• [Book] 脳損傷による芸術活動の障害と発現(小泉英明(編著):恋う・癒す・究める脳科学と芸術) (2008)
  • Author(s): 緑川晶, 河村満
  • Publisher: 工作舎
• [Book] 相貌失認と地誌的障害(鹿島晴雄, 大東祥孝, 種村純(編):よくわかる失語症セラピーと認知リハビリテーション) (2008)
  • Author(s): 小山慎一, 緑川晶
  • Publisher: 永井書店
• [Book] 乳児期における発達と障害(山口真美, 金沢創(編):知覚・認知の発達心理学入門) (2008)
  • Author(s): 緑川晶
  • Publisher: 北大路書房
• [Book] 脳損傷による芸術活動の障害と発現In : 恋う・癒す・究める脳科学と芸術 (2008)
  • Author(s): 緑川晶, 河村満, 小泉英明(編著)
  • Publisher: 工作舎