@article{ref1,
title="Driver rehabilitation in Parkinson's disease using a driving simulator: A pilot study",
journal="Proceedings of the ... international driving symposium on human factors in driver assessment, training and vehicle design",
year="2011",
author="Uc, Ergun and Rizzo, Matthew and Anderson, Steven and Lawrence, Jessica and Dawson, Jeffrey",
volume="6",
number="",
pages="248-254",
abstract="Parkinson's disease (PD) impairs driving performance. In this pilot study, four drivers with PD (selected based on poor road driving performance in the past) participated in a rehabilitation program using a driving simulator. Two different training drives (#1- multiple intersections of varying visibility and traffic load, where an incurring vehicle posed a crash risk, #2- various scenarios on decision making, hazard perception and response) were administered in each session (total 3 sessions once every 1-2 weeks) with immediate feedback after the drives. We observed reduction in crashes in drive #1 and improved scores on drive #2 in the simulator. In addition, 3 subjects showed marked improvements in their total error counts on a standard road test between baseline and post-training sessions, one subject stayed stable. These findings suggest that our simulator training program is feasible and potentially useful in impaired drivers with PD.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}