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SUBMITTER: Hicks SL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3867477 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hicks Stephen L SL Sharma Rakesh R Khan Amad N AN Berna Claire M CM Waldecker Andrea A Talbot Kevin K Kennard Chris C Turner Martin R MR
PloS one 20131218 12
The neurodegenerative disorder amyotrophic lateral sclerosis may render patients unable to speak or write, so that objective assessment of cognitive impairment, which is commonly of a dysexecutive nature, is challenging. There is therefore a need to develop other methods of assessment that utilize other relatively unaffected motor systems. In this proof-of-principle study a novel eye-tracking version of the trail-making test was compared with performance on the standard written version in a grou ...[more]