Exploring the Association between Working Memory and Driving Performance in Parkinson's disease.

CONCLUSIONS: Although the conclusions drawn from this study are tentative, the evidence presented here is encouraging with regard to the use of a driving simulator to examine isolated cognitive functions underlying driving performance in PD. With an understanding of its limitations, such driving simulation in combination with functional assessment batteries measuring physical, visual and cognitive abilities could comprise one component of a multi-tiered system to evaluate medical fitness to drive.
PMID: 26376369 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Traffic Injury Prevention - September 16, 2015 Category: Accident Prevention Authors: Vardaki S, Devos H, Beratis I, Yannis G, Papageorgiou SG Tags: Traffic Inj Prev Source Type: research