Cognitive reorganization in patients with Parkinson’s Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment: a neuropsychological network approach
Chiara Longo, Daniele Luigi Romano, Maria Chiara Malaguti, Ruggero Bacchin, Costanza Papagno · 2024
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Description
Chiara Longo and four co-authors use network analysis to study thinking problems in Parkinson's disease. Some patients keep clear thinking while others develop mild cognitive impairment, and the team asked whether the links among mental skills shift as the condition sets in.
They gave a detailed test battery to 275 patients and split them into two groups: 171 with unimpaired thinking and 104 with mild impairment. Treating each test as a node in a network, they found the impaired group's network looked denser, with some links between skills weakened. The authors read this as a sign of reorganization, where the mind may work around failing links to keep functioning.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Chiara Longo, Daniele Luigi Romano, Maria Chiara Malaguti, Ruggero Bacchin, Costanza Papagno |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 33 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |