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SUBMITTER: Chhetri JK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5660976 | biostudies-other | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Frontiers in medicine 20171025
Cognitive disorders represent a leading cause of disability in the aging population, of which dementia has the highest global burden. Early signs of dementia such as slow gait and memory complaints are known to present well before the overt manifestation of the disease. Motoric cognitive risk (MCR) syndrome characterized by the simultaneous presence of gait disturbances and memory complaints in older subjects has been proposed to study the close interactions between the physical and cognitive do ...[more]