An eye-tracking version of the trail-making test.

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 o...

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Autores principales: Stephen L Hicks, Rakesh Sharma, Amad N Khan, Claire M Berna, Andrea Waldecker, Kevin Talbot, Chris Kennard, Martin R Turner
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Publicado: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/2c6902dbef16431a8be421a768293357
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Sumario: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 group of healthy volunteers. There was good correlation for speed between both versions of Part B (R(2)=0.73), suggesting that this is a viable method to objectively assess cognitive impairment in disorders where patients are unable to speak or write.