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    Déficits neuropsicológicos y enfermedad de Parkinson
    (Murcia: Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones, 1987) Vázquez, A.; Vila Abad, E.; Ortíz Alonso, T.; Facultad de Psicología
    The kowledge of the controversy whether Parkinson 's disease (PD) causes dementía moved the authors to investigate neuropsychologically a collective of their own. They analized the results of a sample consisted of 13 patients and 12 control subjects of similar characteristics. They were tested by the following bathery: WAIS, Weschler's clinical Memory Tests. Trail Makíng, Seashore's Rithme test and Hasltead Category Test.The resulb have allowed them to take out the following conclusions: l. There i" a general lowering in the global performances, but not reaching the constituting of a true dementia (DMS-lll). 2. Specific deficits in spatial-cognitive visual-motor and motor planning areas. 3. Memory and learning impairments only on the visual area. 4. The degree of the impairments only correlates with age and not with the disease duration. 5. lt correlates also positively with bradikynesia and mainly with losing motor automatisms but negatively with rigidity and tremor. finally they consider essential that PD does not causes dementía, but specific neuropsychological troubles; and that PD and dementia association implies the presence of other disease connected with/or different from primary PD.