Executive Functions in Parkinson’s Disease
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Abstract The objective of this study was to investigate executive functions (EFs) in older adults with Parkinson’s disease (PD). It a cross-sectional and comparative study, composed 62 participants divided into PD group (n = 31; M age 75.26; SD 7.26) control 74.03; 6.95), aged 61 93 years, recruited for convenience 5 cities the state Rio Grande do Sul. instruments used were sociodemographic data questionnaire; MMSE; GDS-15; BIS-11; verbal fluency tasks (FAS animals), DEX; WCST-64 FDT. Descriptive analyzes Student’s t Chi-square tests used. had lower performance FDT compared controls, indicating worse that required reasoning, cognitive flexibility processing speed, addition, showed difficulties performing require EF (DEX).
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عنوان ژورنال: Psico-USF
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2175-3563', '1413-8271']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1590/1413-82712021260304