Gait Variability May Serve As Marker Of Cognitive-Cortical Dysfunction In Older Adults With Neurodegenerative And Cognitive Disease, Research Suggests

Healio (3/9, Marabito) reports, “Gait variability – or the stride-to-stride fluctuations in distance and time when moving – served as a marker of cognitive-cortical dysfunction,” investigators concluded after examining “gait and cognitive performance in 500 older adults with different neurodegenerative and cognitive conditions, including subjective cognitive impairment, Parkinson’s disease,” mild cognitive impairment, Parkinson’s with mild cognitive impairment, Parkinson’s with dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, “Lewy body dementia and frontotemporal dementia, in addition to a control group of adults with normal cognitive function.” The findingswere published online in the journal Alzheimer’s & Dementia.

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— “Gait variability serves as indicator of cognitive dysfunction in AD, other diseases “Maria Marabito, Healio, March 9, 2021

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