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Arithmetic Errors in Financial Contexts in Parkinson’s Disease
Research on dyscalculia in neurodegenerative diseases is still scarce, despite high impact on patients’ independence and activities of daily living function. Most studies address Alzheimer’s Disease; however, patients with Parkinson’s Disease (PD) also have a higher risk for cognitive impairment whi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8079777/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33935881 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.629984 |
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author | Loenneker, Hannah D. Becker, Sara Nussbaum, Susanne Nuerk, Hans-Christoph Liepelt-Scarfone, Inga |
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description | Research on dyscalculia in neurodegenerative diseases is still scarce, despite high impact on patients’ independence and activities of daily living function. Most studies address Alzheimer’s Disease; however, patients with Parkinson’s Disease (PD) also have a higher risk for cognitive impairment while the relation to arithmetic deficits in financial contexts has rarely been studied. Therefore, the current exploratory study investigates deficits in two simple arithmetic tasks in financial contexts administered within the Clinical Dementia Rating in a sample of 100 PD patients. Patients were classified as cognitively normal (PD-NC) or mildly impaired (PD-MCI) according to Level I consensus criteria, and assessed using a comprehensive neuropsychological test battery, neurological motor examination, and sociodemographic and clinical questionnaires. In total, 18% showed arithmetic deficits: they were predominately female, had longer disease duration, more impaired global cognition, but minor signs of depression compared to PD patients without arithmetic deficits. When correcting for clinical and sociodemographic confounders, greater impairments in attention and visuo-spatial/constructional domains predicted occurrence of arithmetic deficits. The type of deficit did not seem to be arbitrary but seemed to involve impaired place × value processing frequently. Our results argue for the importance of further systematic investigations of arithmetic deficits in PD with sensitive tests to confirm the results of our exploratory study that a specific subgroup of PD patients present themselves with dyscalculia. |
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spelling | pubmed-80797772021-04-29 Arithmetic Errors in Financial Contexts in Parkinson’s Disease Loenneker, Hannah D. Becker, Sara Nussbaum, Susanne Nuerk, Hans-Christoph Liepelt-Scarfone, Inga Front Psychol Psychology Research on dyscalculia in neurodegenerative diseases is still scarce, despite high impact on patients’ independence and activities of daily living function. Most studies address Alzheimer’s Disease; however, patients with Parkinson’s Disease (PD) also have a higher risk for cognitive impairment while the relation to arithmetic deficits in financial contexts has rarely been studied. Therefore, the current exploratory study investigates deficits in two simple arithmetic tasks in financial contexts administered within the Clinical Dementia Rating in a sample of 100 PD patients. Patients were classified as cognitively normal (PD-NC) or mildly impaired (PD-MCI) according to Level I consensus criteria, and assessed using a comprehensive neuropsychological test battery, neurological motor examination, and sociodemographic and clinical questionnaires. In total, 18% showed arithmetic deficits: they were predominately female, had longer disease duration, more impaired global cognition, but minor signs of depression compared to PD patients without arithmetic deficits. When correcting for clinical and sociodemographic confounders, greater impairments in attention and visuo-spatial/constructional domains predicted occurrence of arithmetic deficits. The type of deficit did not seem to be arbitrary but seemed to involve impaired place × value processing frequently. Our results argue for the importance of further systematic investigations of arithmetic deficits in PD with sensitive tests to confirm the results of our exploratory study that a specific subgroup of PD patients present themselves with dyscalculia. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-04-14 /pmc/articles/PMC8079777/ /pubmed/33935881 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.629984 Text en Copyright © 2021 Loenneker, Becker, Nussbaum, Nuerk and Liepelt-Scarfone. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Loenneker, Hannah D. Becker, Sara Nussbaum, Susanne Nuerk, Hans-Christoph Liepelt-Scarfone, Inga Arithmetic Errors in Financial Contexts in Parkinson’s Disease |
title | Arithmetic Errors in Financial Contexts in Parkinson’s Disease |
title_full | Arithmetic Errors in Financial Contexts in Parkinson’s Disease |
title_fullStr | Arithmetic Errors in Financial Contexts in Parkinson’s Disease |
title_full_unstemmed | Arithmetic Errors in Financial Contexts in Parkinson’s Disease |
title_short | Arithmetic Errors in Financial Contexts in Parkinson’s Disease |
title_sort | arithmetic errors in financial contexts in parkinson’s disease |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8079777/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33935881 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.629984 |
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