The interplay between gait, falls and cognition: Can cognitive therapy reduce fall risk?

Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1057-1075

  Segev Jacubovski, Orit ^a   Herman, Talia ^b,c   Yogev Seligmann, Galit ^b,c   Mirelman, Anat ^b,d   Giladi, Nir ^b,c   Hausdorff, Jeffrey M ^b,c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

aging; attention; cognition; cognitive intervention; dual task; elderly; executive function; falls; gait; therapy

Indexed keywords

AMANTADINE; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR; DONEPEZIL; GALANTAMINE; LEVODOPA; METHYLPHENIDATE; PLACEBO; VITAMIN D;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATTENTION; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COGNITION; COGNITIVE GAIT INTERVENTION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COGNITIVE TRAINING; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMENTIA; DRUG MEGADOSE; FALL RISK; FALL RISK ASSESSMENT; FALLING; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GAIT; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATIENT MOBILITY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RESPONSE TIME; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; STROKE; SUBCORTICAL VASCULAR ENCEPHALOPATHY; SURVIVAL; TRAINING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; COGNITION DISORDERS; COGNITIVE THERAPY; GAIT; HUMANS;

EID: 79959961337     PISSN: 14737175     EISSN: 17448360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/ern.11.69     Document Type: Review

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