Cognitve estimation: comparison of two tests in nondemented parkinsonian patients

Autor:	M. L. Villa, E. Forapani, Antonio Russo, Ildebrando Appollonio, Valeria Isella, R. Piolti, Lodovico Frattola
Rok vydání:	2003
Předmět:	Estimation medicine.medical_specialty Neurology Significant difference Cognition Dermatology General Medicine Audiology Time perception medicine.disease Psychiatry and Mental health medicine Dementia Neurology (clinical) Psychology Pathological Cognitive psychology Neuroradiology
Zdroj:	Neurological Sciences. 24:153-154
ISSN:	1590-3478 1590-1874
Popis:	The Time and Weight Estimation test (STEP) and the Cognitive Estimation Task (CET) are two recently devised tests for the assessment of cognitive estimation. In the present study, we compared their performance in 30 non-demented idiopathic parkinsonian (PD) patients, also evaluated with the Frontal Assessment Battery (FAB) as an index of executive impairment, with the aim of verifying the putative frontal circuitry of cognitive estimation processes. Six patients (20%) showed a pathological performance on either or both tests. After division of the PD sample into tertiles based on the FAB score, no significant difference was detected by either estimation test. Furthermore, the two questionnaires were unrelated to each other. Thus, deficits of cognitive estimation ability appear to be mild in PD without dementia and do not correlate with executive impairment. Unexpectedly, the CET and the STEP seem to have no unique underlying construct.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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