Research Article

Sensitivity and Specificity of the ECAS in Parkinson’s Disease and Progressive Supranuclear Palsy

Table 1

Neuropsychological assessment.

DomainSubdomainMeasures

FluencyPhonemic verbal fluency index [42] (VFi): words beginning with “P” and “R”

Executive functionsInhibitionHayling Sentence Completion Test [52]: total unconnected errors (converted but not scaled); latency score (time taken to complete unconnected sentences minus time taken for connected sentences)
Shifting and rule detectionBrixton Spatial Anticipation Test [52]: total number of errors
SocialReading the Mind in the Eyes–Revised [53]: total number of correct ones

LanguageNamingGraded Naming Test [54]
SpellingGraded Difficulty Spelling Test [55]

MemoryAdult Memory and Information Processing Battery [56]: immediate story recall; delayed story recall

VisuospatialThe Visual Object and Space Perception Battery [57]: cube analysis; number location