Publications by authors named "W Saban"
: For over half a century, studies of rare diseases using in-person cognitive tools have faced challenges, such as long study periods and small sample sizes (e.g. = 10).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFParkinson's disease (PD) is primarily characterized by motor symptoms. Yet, many people with PD experience cognitive decline, which is often unnoticed by clinicians, although it may have a significant impact on quality of life. For over half a century, traditional in-person PD cognitive assessment lacked accessibility, scalability, and specificity due to its inherent limitations.
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- There's a major need for accessible neuropsychological testing for research globally, as traditional in-person studies face challenges like recruitment difficulties, small sample sizes, and lack of diversity.
- Remote testing platforms have shown potential for efficiently gathering patient data online, and this study focuses on the remote administration of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) test.
- The results indicate that online MoCA scores align with in-person scores, the scores for patient groups were lower than healthy controls, and there were no differences between the English and Hebrew versions, suggesting this method can effectively collect data across diverse populations and languages.
Humans exhibit complex mathematical skills attributed to the exceptional enlargement of neocortical regions throughout evolution. In the current work, we initiated a novel exploration of the ancient subcortical neural network essential for mathematical cognition. Using a neuropsychological approach, we report that degeneration of two subcortical structures, the cerebellum and basal ganglia, impairs performance in symbolic arithmetic.
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