Haste makes waste: Decision making in patients with restless legs syndrome with and without augmentation

To investigate decision making in patients with primary restless legs syndrome (RLS) with and without augmentation treated with dopaminergic medication. A total of 64 non-demented RLS patients treated with dopaminergic medication with and without augmentation were included in this study. We used an...

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Veröffentlicht in:PloS one 2017-04, Vol.12 (4), p.e0174793-e0174793
Hauptverfasser: Heim, Beatrice, Pertl, Marie-Theres, Stefani, Ambra, Delazer, Margarete, Heidbreder, Anna, Zamarian, Laura, Brandauer, Elisabeth, Seppi, Klaus, Högl, Birgit, Poewe, Werner, Djamshidian, Atbin
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Zusammenfassung:To investigate decision making in patients with primary restless legs syndrome (RLS) with and without augmentation treated with dopaminergic medication. A total of 64 non-demented RLS patients treated with dopaminergic medication with and without augmentation were included in this study. We used an information sampling task to assess how much evidence participants gather before making a decision. Performance was compared to the results of 21 healthy controls. All patients with and without augmentation gathered less information than healthy controls before making a decision (p
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0174793