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Detecting Mild Cognitive Deficits in Parkinson's Disease: Comparison of Neuropsychological Tests.
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- Best practice guidelines for the diagnosis, evaluation, and management of cognitive disorders in Parkinson's disease.Age and ageing · 2026Guideline
- Transcranial direct current stimulation for learning and memory in Parkinson's disease: a systematic review.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Pooled it
- Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) as a Useful Rehabilitation Strategy to Improve Cognition in Patients With Alzheimer's Disease and Parkinson's Disease: An Updated Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials.Frontiers in neurology · 2021Pooled it
- Development and Preliminary Validation of ORCA-PD, an Online Rapid Cognitive Assessment for Parkinson Disease: Mixed Methods Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Article
- Clinical usability of telephone-based cognitive screening tests in Parkinson's disease.Journal of Parkinson's disease · 2026Article
- Accessible assessment of motor and cognitive symptoms in Parkinson's disease: integrating large datasets, machine-learning, and videoconferencing.NPJ digital medicine · 2026Article
- Use of Robust Norming to Create a Sensitive Cognitive Summary Score in De Novo Parkinson's Disease: An Illustrative Example.Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society · 2025Article
- German Society of Neurology guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of cognitive impairment and affective disorders in people with Parkinson's disease: new spotlights on diagnostic procedures and non-pharmacological interventions.Journal of neurology · 2024Article
- Psychometrics and diagnostics of the Italian version of the Alternate Verbal Fluency Battery (AVFB) in non-demented Parkinson's disease patients.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2024Article
- The Parkinson's Disease Composite of Executive Functioning: A Measure for Detecting Cognitive Decline in Clinical Trials.Neurology · 2024Article
- Novel computerized neurocognitive test battery is sensitive to cancer-related cognitive deficits in survivors.Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice · 2024Article
- Prodromal dementia with Lewy bodies in REM sleep behavior disorder: A multicenter study.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2024Article
- Online cognitive testing in Parkinson's disease: advantages and challenges.Frontiers in neurology · 2024Review
- Assessment tools for cognitive performance in Parkinson's disease and its genetic contributors.Frontiers in neurology · 2024Article
- Clinical trials for cognition in Parkinson's disease: Where are we and how can we do better?Parkinsonism & related disorders · 2023Review
- Chinese version of the auditory verbal learning test: normative study and clinical applications in Chinese-speaking population in Shijiazhuang city.Acta neurologica Belgica · 2023Article
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- Parkinson's Disease-Cognitive Rating Scale (PD-CRS): Normative Data and Mild Cognitive Impairment Assessment in Brazil.Movement disorders clinical practice · 2023Article
- Tipping the scales: how clinical assessment shapes the neural correlates of Parkinson's disease mild cognitive impairment.Brain imaging and behavior · 2022Article
- Mild cognitive impairment in patients with Parkinson's disease: An updated mini-review and future outlook.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2022Review
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Abstract
backgroundNumerous neuropsychological tests and test versions are used in Parkinson's disease research, but their relative capacity to detect mild cognitive deficits and their comparability across studies are unknown. The objective of this study was to identify neuropsychological tests that consistently detect cognitive decline in PD across studies.
methodsData from 30 normed neuropsychological tests across 20 international studies in up to 2908 nondemented PD patients were analyzed. A subset of 17 tests was administered to up to 1247 healthy controls. A 2-step meta-analytic approach using standardized scores compared performance in PD with normative data.
resultsPooled estimates of the differences between PD and site-specific healthy controls identified significant cognitive deficits in PD patients on 14 test scores across 5 commonly assessed cognitive domains (attention or working memory, executive, language, memory, and visuospatial abilities), but healthy control performance was statistically above average on 7 of these tests. Analyses based on published norms only, as opposed to direct assessment of healthy controls, showed high between-study variability that could not be accounted for and led to inconclusive results.
conclusionsNormed neuropsychological tests across multiple cognitive domains consistently detect cognitive deficits in PD when compared with site-specific healthy control performance, but relative PD performance was significantly affected by the inclusion and type of healthy controls versus the use of published norms only. Additional research is needed to identify a cognitive battery that can be administered in multisite international studies and that is sensitive to cognitive decline, responsive to therapeutic interventions, and superior to individual cognitive tests. © 2018 International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society.
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