Modified Six Elements Test: Earlier diagnosis of the correlation between motor and executive dysfunction in Parkinson's disease without dementia

• Published in: Neurology and clinical neuroscience Vol. 3; no. 6; pp. 209 - 214
• Main Authors: Murakami, Hidetomo, Owan, Yoshiyuki, Oguchi, Tatsunori, Nomoto, Shohei, Shozawa, Hidenobu, Kubota, Satomi, Mori, Yukiko, Mizuma, Keita, Futamura, Akinori, Kobayakawa, Mutsutaka, Kezuka, Machiko, Midorikawa, Akira, Miller, Michael W, Kawamura, Mitsuru
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.11.2015
• Subjects: executive dysfunction; gait; Modified Six Elements Test; motor function; Parkinson's disease

Background In patients with Parkinson's disease, executive deficits are known to correlate with motor dysfunctions, such as gait and postural instability. However executive deficits are sometimes difficult to detect using common frontal assessment batteries. Behavioral Assessment of Dysexecutiv...