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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Aging Neurosci.
Sec. Parkinson’s Disease and Aging-related Movement Disorders
Volume 16 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2024.1488881
This article is part of the Research Topic Pathophysiology, Treatment and Rehabilitation of Neurodegenerative Diseases in Geriatric Population View all 13 articles

Action observation treatment may improve daily living activities and verb recovery in Parkinson's disease-dementia: findings from a preliminary randomized controlled trial

Provisionally accepted
Lucia Paciaroni Lucia Paciaroni 1Elena Mastrosanti Elena Mastrosanti 2Leonardo Biscetti Leonardo Biscetti 1Susy Paolini Susy Paolini 1*Sara Mauri Sara Mauri 1Paolo Fabbietti Paolo Fabbietti 3Giovanni Renato Riccardi Giovanni Renato Riccardi 4Marco Bruno Luigi Rocchi Marco Bruno Luigi Rocchi 2Giuseppe Pelliccioni Giuseppe Pelliccioni 1
  • 1 Department of Neurology, National Institute of Science and Health for Aging (INRCA-IRCCS), Ancona, Italy
  • 2 Department of Biomolecular Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Urbino, Italy
  • 3 Unit of Geriatric Pharmacoepidemiology and Biostatistics, National Institute of Science and Health for Aging (INRCA-IRCCS), Ancona, Italy
  • 4 Clinical Unit of Physical Rehabilitation INRCA-IRCCS, National Institute of Health and Science on Aging, Ancona, Italy

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    Background and objectives: Action observation treatment (AOT) is a novel rehabilitation approach aimed to the recovery of both motor and linguistic deficits in subjects with brain lesions. The aim of the present randomized controlled study was to assess the benefits of AOT treatment in the activities of daily living (ADLs) and in the linguistic abilities of the patients with Parkinson's disease dementia (PDD) at mildmoderate stage (Hoehn & Yahr's stage scale: 2-3). Methods: Twenty patients were enrolled and randomly assigned to an experimental group (submitted to AOT) or to a control group. The experimental group (AOT-group) underwent the vision of a video containing 6 complex ADLs, while the control group (C-group) was subjected to a video-clip regarding semantic information of a geographicalnaturalistic type without motor content.

    Keywords: action observation treatment, Parkinson's disease, Dementia, Daily living activities, verbs retrieval

    Received: 30 Aug 2024; Accepted: 07 Nov 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Paciaroni, Mastrosanti, Biscetti, Paolini, Mauri, Fabbietti, Riccardi, Rocchi and Pelliccioni. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Susy Paolini, Department of Neurology, National Institute of Science and Health for Aging (INRCA-IRCCS), Ancona, Italy

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