Verbal Fluency as a Rapid Screening Test for Cognitive Impairment in Early Parkinson's Disease.

J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci

From the Institute of Cognitive Neurology (INECO), Buenos Aires, Argentina (TT,TL, SB, EG, DB, AC, AI, FM, OG, MR); Favaloro University, Buenos Aires, Argentina (TT, AC, AI, FM, OG, MR); UDP-INECO Foundation Core on Neuroscience (UIFCoN), Diego Portales University, Santiago, Chile (TT, SB, AI, MR); the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina (AI, MR); Universidad Autónoma del Caribe, Barranquilla, Colombia (AI); and the Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, Australian Research Council (ACR), Sydney, Australia (AI).

Published: May 2016

The phonological verbal fluency test can act as a fast screening test to detect cognitive deficits in neurological conditions. In the present study, its utility in the detection of executive deficits in patients with early Parkinson's disease is demonstrated.

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