Gait as a biomarker of cognitive impairment and dementia syndromes. Quo vadis?

What it found

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Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 35 citations in OpenAlex.

1. Recommendations of the 5th Canadian Consensus Conference on the diagnosis and treatment of dementia.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2020
   Guideline
2. Gait instability is a more specific predictor of corticospinal tract function than gait speed in clinically stable multiple sclerosis.Scientific reports · 2025
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3. Investigating Modifiable Factors Associated with Cognitive Decline: Insights from the UK Biobank.Biomedicines · 2025
   Article
4. Behavioral Disorders of Spatial Cognition in Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment Due to Alzheimer's Disease (The BDSC-MCI Project): Ecological Validity of the Corsi Learning Suvra-Span Test.Journal of personalized medicine · 2024
   Article
5. Behavioral Disorders of Spatial Cognition in Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment due to Alzheimer's Disease: Preliminary Findings from the BDSC-MCI Project.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024
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6. Sex Differences in Falls: The Mediating Role of Gait Stability Ratio and Body Balance in Vulnerable Older Adults.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023
   Article
7. The association between cognitive impairment, gait speed, and Walk ratio.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2023
   Review
8. Associations of Gait Speed, Cadence, Gait Stability Ratio, and Body Balance with Falls in Older Adults.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
   Article
9. Quantitative gait analysis in mild cognitive impairment, dementia, and cognitively intact individuals: a cross-sectional case-control study.BMC geriatrics · 2022
   Article
10. The Role of Cognitive Performance and Physical Functions in the Association between Age and Gait Speed: A Mediation Study.Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
    Article
11. Muscular Function as an Alternative to Identify Cognitive Impairment: A Secondary Analysis From SABE Colombia.Frontiers in neurology · 2022
    Article
12. Gait variability across neurodegenerative and cognitive disorders: Results from the Canadian Consortium of Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA) and the Gait and Brain Study.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2021
    Article
13. Continuous gait monitoring discriminates community-dwelling mild Alzheimer's disease from cognitively normal controls.Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) · 2021
    Article
14. Timed Up-and-Go Dual-Task Testing in the Assessment of Cognitive Function: A Mixed Methods Observational Study for Development of the UDDGait Protocol.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020
    Observational
15. CCCDTD5 recommendations on early non cognitive markers of dementia: A Canadian consensus.Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) · 2020
    Article
16. Cognition and motor function: The gait and cognition pooled index.PloS one · 2020
    Article
17. Consensus on Shared Measures of Mobility and Cognition: From the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA).The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2019
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18. Detection and localisation of hesitant steps in people with Alzheimer's disease navigating routes of varying complexity.Healthcare technology letters · 2019
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19. Guidelines for Gait Assessments in the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA).Canadian geriatrics journal : CGJ · 2018
    Article
20. Apolipoprotein E4 Allele and Gait Performance in Mild Cognitive Impairment: Results From the Gait and Brain Study.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2017
    Article

Corrections and comments

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  Times are changing; researchers need to change too.2016
• Comment on
  Gait phenotype from mild cognitive impairment to moderate dementia: results from the GOOD initiative.2016

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