Assessment of cognition in Parkinson’s disease

Abstract

The SCOPA-COG is a short, reliable, and valid instrument that is sensitive to the specific cognitive deficits in PD.

Cognitive Dysfunctions in Mild Parkinson’s Disease Dementia: Comparison with Patients Having Mild Alzheimer’s Disease and Normal Controls

“…These functions that emerged as being affected partially resemble the pattern of subcortical dementia as defined by some authors, although the visuospatial functions refer more to the cortical level [3, 24]. Thus, the pattern of cognitive decline in PDD patients may differ from that in AD patients.…”

“…Previous studies have reported that the cognitive functions affected by PDD were attention, the working memory, and the executive and visuospatial functions, whereas verbal functions, thinking and reasoning were relatively spared [23, 24]. These functions that emerged as being affected partially resemble the pattern of subcortical dementia as defined by some authors, although the visuospatial functions refer more to the cortical level [3, 24].…”

End of Life Care: Attitudes Toward Autonomy and Legal Instruments

“…Currently, emotional incontinence is associated with multi-infarct dementia, but not mixed dementia (Moroney et al, 1997). The so called sub cortical dementias, like dementia in Parkinson´s disease, display visual hallucinations and the impairment of memory and executive functions (Marinus et al, 2003, Galvin et al, 2006, and are associated with patient age and not related to disease duration (Mayeux et al, 1992). The differential cognitive features that distinguish fronto-temporal dementia from Alzheimer´s disease include a relative preservation of drawings and calculation performance (Mendez et al, 1996), abilities that could interfere in the interpretation of some structured cognitive tests for determining capacity.…”

Cognitive Rehabilitation in Parkinson's Disease Using Neuropsychological Training, Transfer Training and Sports Therapy

“…The SCOPA-COG is an instrument which was designed to assess the specific cognitive deficits found in Parkinson`s disease (Marinus et al, 2003). The scale consisting of 10 items covers the domains: memory and recall (verbal recall, digit span backward, indicate cubes), attention (counting backward, months backward), executive function (fist-edge-palm, semantic fluency, dice), visual-spatial functions (assembly pattern) and memory (delayed recall).…”