Effects of Parkinson's disease and dopamine on digit span measures of working memory.

John Patrick GroganLisa Emily KnightLaura SmithNerea Irigoras IzagirreAlexandra HowatBrogan Elizabeth KnightAnastasia BickertonHanna Kristiina IsotalusElizabeth Jane Coulthard

Published in: Psychopharmacology (2018)

This suggests that the deficit of maintenance capacity and manipulation accuracy in PD patients is not primarily a dopaminergic one and supports a potential "overdosing" of intact manipulation mechanisms in healthy older adults by levodopa.

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