Gait & Posture
Volume 31, Issue 2 , Pages 169-174 , February 2010

Executive dysfunction and attention contribute to gait interference in ‘off’ state Parkinson's Disease

  • Sue Lord

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, University of Otago (Wellington), New Zealand
    • Institute of Ageing and Health, Newcastle University, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Clinical Ageing Research Unit, Newcastle University, Campus for Ageing & Vitality, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE 4 5PL, UK. Tel.: +64 4 3855591; fax: +64 4 3895427.
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  • Lynn Rochester

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Ageing and Health, Newcastle University, UK
    • Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK
    • HealthQWest, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK
    • ,
  • Vicki Hetherington

      Affiliations

    • Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK
    • ,
  • Liesl M. Allcock

      Affiliations

    • Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK
    • ,
  • David Burn

      Affiliations

    • HealthQWest, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK

Received 19 June 2009 ,Revised 28 September 2009 ,Accepted 29 September 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2009.09.019

Gait & Posture
Volume 31, Issue 2 , Pages 169-174 , February 2010

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