- Over 10 million people globally have Parkinson’s disease.
- There is currently no cure for Parkinson’s, which affects a person’s cognitive abilities and ability to perform everyday tasks.
- Researchers from the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine say that an EEG test could help doctors predict cognition problems in people with Parkinson’s disease.
More than 10 million people around the world have Parkinson’s disease — a neurological disease affecting movement and cognition.
There is currently
Now, researchers from the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine have discovered a way to predict thinking problems, including dementia, in people with Parkinson’s using a widely available technology called electroencephalography (EEG).
Researchers believe that EEG tests could help improve the diagnosis of cognitive decline in people with Parkinson’s, and lead to new biomarkers that could be used to target therapies to treat the disease’s cognitive symptoms.
This study was recently published in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry.
An electroencephalogram (EEG) is a medical test used to measure the electrical activity in the brain. It can also be used to detect any abnormalities in a person’s
An EEG is a
An EEG can be used to diagnose a variety of diseases, including:
For this study, the researchers recruited 100 people with Parkinson’s disease with varying cognitive abilities, from healthy to dementia. They also included 49 control participants.
All study participants completed three different tasks commonly used to assess a person’s cognitive control. While…
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