Looking deeper: does a connection exist between fatigue and attentional deficits in Parkinson's disease? A conceptual framework

Front Neurol. 2023 Aug 11:14:1212876. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2023.1212876. eCollection 2023.

Paola Ortelli^#^{1

2}, Viviana Versace^#², Leopold Saltuari², Anna Randi^{1

2}, Jakob Stolz², Sabrina Dezi², Roberto Maestri³, Susanne Buechner⁴, Nir Giladi^{5

6}, Antonio Oliviero⁷, Luca Sebastianelli², Davide Ferrazzoli²

¹ Psychology Service, Hospital of Bressanone (SABES-ASDAA) - Teaching Hospital of the Paracelsus Medical Private University (PMU), Bressanone-Brixen, Italy.
² Department of Neurorehabilitation, Hospital of Vipiteno (SABES-ASDAA), Vipiteno-Sterzing, Italy - Teaching Hospital of the Paracelsus Medical Private University (PMU), Salzburg, Austria.
³ Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri, IRCCS, Department of Biomedical Engineering of Montescano Institute, Pavia, Italy.
⁴ Department of Neurology, Hospital of Bolzano (SABES-ASDAA) - Teaching Hospital of the Paracelsus Medical Private University (PMU), Bolzano, Italy.
⁵ Brain Institute, Tel Aviv Soursky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel.
⁶ Faculty of Medicine and Sagol School of Neurosciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
⁷ FENNSI Group, Hospital Nacional de Parapléjicos, Servicio de Salud de Castilla La Mancha, Toledo, Spain.

^# Contributed equally.

No abstract available

Keywords: Parkinson's disease; TMS; attention; fatigue; frontal lobe; intra-individual variability.