Merle Bode, Patricia Sulzer, Claudia Schulte, Sara Becker, Kathrin Brockmann, Saskia Elben, Ann-Kristin Folkerts, Anja Ophey, Christian Schlenstedt, Karsten Witt, Lars Wojtecki, Jordi Evers, Walter Maetzler, Elke Kalbe, Inga Liepelt-Scarfone
INTRODUCTION: Cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease (PD), especially in patients with mild cognitive impairment (PD-MCI), coincides with less physical activity. Cognitive trainings (CT) have been found to promote laboratory environment-based movement. Knowledge about their effect in natural home-based environment, reflecting everyday function, is sparse. This explorative study investigated short-term effects of CT on physical activity assessed by home-based accelerometry, and its relation to change of cognitive function over time and non-cognitive outcomes in patients with PD-MCI...
February 17, 2023: Parkinsonism & related Disorders