The Arrows and Colors Cognitive Test (ACCT): A new verbal-motor free cognitive measure for executive functions in ALS.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objective

The presence of executive deficits in patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis is well established, even if standardized measures are difficult to obtain due to progressive physical disability of the patients. We present clinical data concerning a newly developed measure of cognitive flexibility, administered by means of Eye-Tracking (ET) technology in order to bypass verbal-motor limitations.

Methods

21 ALS patients and 21 age-and education-matched healthy subjects participated in an ET-based cognitive assessment, including a newly developed test of cognitive flexibility (Arrows and Colors Cognitive Test-ACCT) and other oculomotor-driven measures of cognitive functions. A standard screening of frontal and working memory abilities and global cogni

SUBMITTER: Poletti B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6084851 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature