Motor demands of cognitive testing may artificially reduce executive function scores in individuals with spinal cord injury.

CONCLUSIONS: DCCS and Flanker scores for individuals with SCI may be artificially reduced consequent to secondary motor demands of the tests. Proctoring and computation of a motor-response score offset enables comparisons to be made between individuals with SCI and a Non-SCI control cohort; however, further work is needed to determine whether offset-adjusted scores can be compared to standardized normative values. PMID: 30943119 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine - Category: Orthopaedics Tags: J Spinal Cord Med Source Type: research