Compreensão de sentenças nos indivíduos com doença de Parkinson / Sentence comprehension in individuals with Parkinsons disease

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

Recently, studies have indicated that it can occur executive function, cognition and language deficits associated with the classic motor symptoms of Parkinson´s Disease (PD). The aim of this study is to verify sentence comprehension and relate it to attention and memory basis in non-dementia patients with PD. We studied 80 subjects in total, 40 of control group and 40 with a diagnosis of PD, subdivided into 2 groups according to the severity of the disease. The following tests were applied: Token Test, Digit Span, Verbal Fluency, Mini-Mental State Examination and the Geriatric Depression Scale. This study indicates that there is a deficit in sentence comprehension in PD, mainly in more advanced stages of the disease. The sentences which such deficits occur are analyzed and attention and memory basis that are necessary for sentence comprehension are discussed

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language comprehension memory disorders attention compreensão atenção transtornos da memória doença de parkinson parkinson s disease linguagem cognition cognição

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