TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2011//
TI  - Driver rehabilitation in Parkinson's disease using a driving simulator: A pilot study
JO  - Proceedings of the ... international driving symposium on human factors in driver assessment, training and vehicle design
A1  - Uc, Ergun
A1  - Rizzo, Matthew
A1  - Anderson, Steven
A1  - Lawrence, Jessica
A1  - Dawson, Jeffrey
SP  - 248
EP  - 254
VL  - 6
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N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -