Reading Difficulties in Parkinson's Disease: A Stepped Care Model for Neurovisual Rehabilitation.

Background: People with Parkinson's disease (PD) frequently experience reading difficulties. Little is known about what functional impairments distinguish people with PD with and without reading difficulties and how these should guide rehabilitation.

Objective: To provide concrete advice for an efficient stepped care model for reading difficulties in PD, based on extensive functional assessments.

Prevalence and nature of self-reported visual complaints in people with Parkinson's disease-Outcome of the Screening Visual Complaints questionnaire.

Introduction: Visual complaints can have a vast impact on the quality of life of people with Parkinson's disease (PD). In clinical practice however, visual complaints often remain undetected. A better understanding of visual complaints is necessary to optimize care for people with PD and visual complaints.

Correction: The Screening Visual Complaints questionnaire (SVCq) in people with Parkinson's disease-Confirmatory factor analysis and advice for its use in clinical practice.

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The Screening Visual Complaints questionnaire (SVCq) in people with Parkinson's disease-Confirmatory factor analysis and advice for its use in clinical practice.

Background: The Screening Visual Complaints questionnaire (SVCq) is a short questionnaire to screen for visual complaints in people with Parkinson's disease (PD).

Objective: The current study aims to investigate the factor structure of the SVCq to increase the usability of this measure in clinical practice and facilitate the interpretation of visual complaints in people with PD.

Methods: We performed a confirmatory factor analysis using the 19 items of the SVCq of 581 people with PD, investigating the fit of three models previously found in a community sample: a one-factor model including all items, and models where items are distributed across either three or five factors.

Confirmatory factor analysis of the Dutch Screening Visual Complaints questionnaire in people with multiple sclerosis.

Background: Visual complaints among people with multiple sclerosis (pwMS) are common, but often difficult to recognize. The Screening Visual Complaints questionnaire (SVCq) has been developed to screen for visual complaints in people with a neurodegenerative disease, including multiple sclerosis (MS). A previous study performed a factor analysis in a normal population which revealed an acceptable one-factor model, a three-factor model and a five-factor model within the SVCq.

Self-Reported Visual Complaints in People with Parkinson's Disease: A Systematic Review.

Background: Scientific research increasingly focuses on visual symptoms of people with Parkinson's disease (PD). However, this mostly involves functional measures, whereas self-reported data are equally important for guiding clinical care.

Objective: This review provides an overview of the nature and prevalence of self-reported visual complaints by people with PD, compared to healthy controls.

The development of the Screening of Visual Complaints questionnaire for patients with neurodegenerative disorders: Evaluation of psychometric features in a community sample.

Background And Objectives: Patients with neurodegenerative disorders often experience impairments in visual function. In research and clinical care, visual problems are primarily understood as objective visual impairments. Subjective complaints, referring to complaints from a patient's perspective, receive less attention, while they are of utmost clinical importance to guide assessment and rehabilitation.

Does hand skill asymmetry relate to creativity, developmental and health issues and aggression as markers of fitness?

A remarkable feature of human handedness at the population level is specialization of the hands, the right hand performing usually better than the left. This specialization might have an evolutionary advantage, because it provides the individual and population with a wider range of skill. We therefore investigated the relationships between hand skill asymmetry and potential markers of Darwinian fitness that have been hypothesized to explain the bias in hand preference: creativity, aggression and developmental and health problems.