Citation

Amick MM, d'Abreu A, Moro-de-Casillas ML, Chou KL, Ott BR. J. Neurol. Sci. 2007; 252(1): 13-15.

Affiliation

Department of Medical Rehabilitation, Memorial Hospital of RI, Pawtucket, RI 02860, USA. Melissa_Amick@Brown.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.jns.2006.09.020

PMID

17109893

Abstract

The impact of excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) on road test performance was examined in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). Twenty-one patients with PD completed the Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS) and an on-road driving test. Five participants had EDS according to their self-report on the ESS. Neither EDS nor PD medications were associated with on-road driving performance. These findings suggest that in this pilot study EDS did not impair PD patients' driving skills on a formal driving evaluation.

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