Efficacy of a Multimodal Cognitive Rehabilitation Including Psychomotor and Endurance Training in Parkinson's Disease
Table 1
Cognitive training.
Training section
Examples for tasks
Planning strategies
Shopping lists, key search of the BADS subscales, to get items out of a bottle, special wooden 3-dimensional jig saw
Mnemonics
Using memory hooks, writing of suitable mnemonics, and planning where to place them
Decision making
Computer tasks, painting
Set shifting
To solve various tasks according to changing rules, to calculate for 5 min, then to read for 10 min and to write for 5 min, or to switch tasks after every third answer, categorising items according to different rules
Calculation
Calculation tasks
Navigational skills
Finding the way through a maze on a screen, finding the way around obstacles on a paper or on a screen
Information speed processing
Connecting numbers or letters, connecting figures to an image, and finding the meaning of a fictive word
Summary
Extracting the relevant information from news or from a story or a short movie