Dementia in Down syndrome: unique insights for Alzheimer disease research

IT Lott, E Head - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2019 - nature.com
Virtually all adults with Down syndrome (DS) show the neuropathological changes of
Alzheimer disease (AD) by the age of 40 years. This association is partially due to …

Consensus on shared measures of mobility and cognition: from the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA)

M Montero-Odasso, QJ Almeida… - The Journals of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Background A new paradigm is emerging in which mobility and cognitive impairments,
previously studied, diagnosed, and managed separately in older adults, are in fact regulated …

[HTML][HTML] Associations between post-stroke motor and cognitive function: a cross-sectional study

MS Einstad, I Saltvedt, S Lydersen, MH Ursin… - BMC geriatrics, 2021 - Springer
Background Motor and cognitive impairments are frequently observed following stroke, but
are often managed as distinct entities, and there is little evidence regarding how they are …

[HTML][HTML] Motoric cognitive risk syndrome: a risk factor for cognitive impairment and dementia in different populations

Z Meiner, E Ayers, J Verghese - Annals of geriatric medicine and …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract Changes in gait, especially decreased gait velocity, may be a harbinger of cognitive
decline in aging. Motoric cognitive risk syndrome (MCR), a pre-dementia syndrome …

Motoric cognitive risk syndrome: Integration of two early harbingers of dementia in older adults

RD Semba, Q Tian, MC Carlson, QL Xue… - Ageing research …, 2020 - Elsevier
Dementia is characterized by a long preclinical phase that may last years to decades before
the onset of mild cognitive impairment. Slow gait speed and subjective memory complaint …

Association of dual decline in memory and gait speed with risk for dementia among adults older than 60 years: a multicohort individual-level meta-analysis

Q Tian, SM Resnick, MM Mielke, K Yaffe… - JAMA network …, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Dual decline in both memory and gait speed may characterize a group of older
individuals at high risk for future dementia. Objective To assess the risk of dementia in older …

Digital biomarkers of cognitive frailty: the value of detailed gait assessment beyond gait speed

H Zhou, C Park, M Shahbazi, MK York, ME Kunik… - Gerontology, 2022 - karger.com
Background: Cognitive frailty (CF), defined as the simultaneous presence of cognitive
impairment and physical frailty, is a clinical symptom in early-stage dementia with promise in …

[HTML][HTML] Slow gait, subjective cognitive decline and motoric cognitive RISK syndrome: prevalence and associated factors in community dwelling older adults

RA Merchant, J Goh, YH Chan, JY Lim… - The Journal of nutrition …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Background Motoric Cognitive Risk Syndrome (MCR), slow gait speed (SG) and
subjective cognitive decline (SCD) are known to be harbingers of dementia. MCR is known …

Physical and cognitive profiles in motoric cognitive risk syndrome in an older population from Southern Italy

I Bortone, C Griseta, P Battista… - European Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background and purpose In older age, physical and cognitive declines have been shown to
occur simultaneously or consequent to one another, and several operational definitions …

Mechanisms of motoric cognitive risk—hypotheses based on a systematic review and meta‐analysis of longitudinal cohort studies of older adults

DS Mullin, A Cockburn, M Welstead… - Alzheimer's & …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We aimed to refine the hypothesis that motoric cognitive risk (MCR), a syndrome combining
measured slow gait speed and self‐reported cognitive complaints, is prognostic of incident …