Cognitive Impairment in PD

[Ianfrizell]

Hi all

This is a link to my vlog about cognitive impairment in Parkinson’s Disease.

youtu.be/piFaSRKDVSY(Not working as expected?)

Cheers,

Ian

[Hikoi]

Good one Ian. Well presented information

[GymBag]

Thank you

I believe that I have some Cognitive Impairment ( many here might say a lot) that shows most in my verbal conversations. However my point is that I think it is compounded by an inability to change expression and the physical slowness and volume of of my speaking. People will not give me time to speak and in my rush to just finish a sentence it all goes wrong. I guess It is what it is and we just do our best.

I am busy now I have 71 more Vlogs to read.

Very well done

[GymBag in reply to GymBag]

WOW these vlogs are really well done on many PD subjects. Ian this is great stuff that must have taken a lot of effort and should be "required reading". Thanks for the words written at the bottom (I can not remember what that is called)

[Tribselyov]

Ian,

One of the beauties of writing is that there is no "registered " pause if you can't think of a word. Plus, you have an ethesaurus as you need it. Then you get cognition exercise; I call it RockSteadyThinking. Finally, you can find it as a means of engagement or not..... much like a vlog

Trib

Www.crvoyles.com

(Surgeon with PD writes about heroes and villains with Pd or motor impairment)

[alexask]

For cognitive impairment I think there are things you can do to try and prevent this. This is on Alzheimer's but there are lots of things that equally apply to PwP:

Reversal of cognitive decline: A novel therapeutic program:

aging-us.com/article/100690...

[Lisl]

Thanks Ian, very informative and, in some ways reassuring. I'm very concerned about cognitive impairment, especially as my father had Altzheimer's. I do notice that my (normally good) numerical skills and other thought processing is much worse when I'm 'off'. Fortunately DBS didn't affect my cognition (I had the hours of before and after testing). I cannot multitask which is a great loss.

I keep challenging myself to do things that I would have hesitated to do even before PD. I think neuroplasticity is the key- both physically and mentally.

I'll keep my eye out for your future vlogs. I reckon making them must be a great cognitive support.

A minor thing- the fuzzy bits you use as a break make me very dizzy-I assume this is a PD trait (happens with anything moving rapidly in my vision). Can you (or anyone) comment on this?

I'm 'off' at present and can feel the cogs whirring while the clutch in my brain slips... And the typing errors (and corrections!) ...

Thanks again...