Research Article
Cognitive or Cognitive-Motor Executive Function Tasks? Evaluating Verbal Fluency Measures in People with Parkinson’s Disease
| | Groups | People with PD | Controls | value |
| | Age (years) | 67.2 ± 4.3 | 67.0 ± 7.9 | 0.472 | | Education (years) | 9.8 ± 4.9 | 11.2 ± 4.5 | 0.088 | | Gender (F/M) | 24/16 | 27/13 | 0.485 | | Mini-Mental State Examination score | 27.7 ± 2.1 | 27.8 ± 1.3 | 0.290 | | Disease duration (years) | 9.3 ± 6.1 | — | — | | UPDRS III | 27.9 ± 12.0 | — | — |
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PD: Parkinson’s disease; UPDRS III: Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale-motor section [17].
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