L'esecuzione di azioni in modalità naturalistica: profili nell'adulto disabile con disturbi progressivi del movimento.

In this paper we report the results of a multiple single cases study in which we examined the ability to produce routine activities of daily living in old adults with movement disorders, i.e. Parkinson disease and corticobasal degeneration. An adapted version of the naturalistic Action Test (NAT) was used to measure everyday action impairment associated with neurological pathologies. Patients performance on tasks tapping constructive and ideomotor apraxia is not associated with NAT performance; information drawn from IADL questionnaires describes similar patterns of functional outcome. A specific distribution of errors was observed in frontal lobes patients. The study underlines also the usefulness and specificity of information gathered from a naturalistic assessment of action execution