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Language Deficits as a Preclinical Window into Parkinson's Disease: Evidence from Asymptomatic Parkin and Dardarin Mutation Carriers.
Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS - 1 Feb 2017
García Adolfo M, Sedeño Lucas, Trujillo Natalia, Bocanegra Yamile, Gomez Diana, Pineda David, Villegas Andrés, Muñoz Edinson, Arias William, Ibáñez Agustín
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OBJECTIVES: The worldwide spread of Parkinson's disease (PD) calls for sensitive and specific measures enabling its early (or, ideally, preclinical) detection. Here, we use language measures revealing deficits in PD to explore whether similar disturbances are present in asymptomatic individuals at risk for the disease. METHODS: We administered executive, semantic, verb-production, and syntactic tasks to sporadic...
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