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What goes around comes around: cognitive impairment as prodromal parkinsonism?

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Patients with prodromal Parkinson disease (PD) are most likely to respond to disease-modifying strategies. To date, cognitive impairment has been viewed as a complication of late-stage disease, but a longitudinal analysis of data from the Rotterdam cohort raises the possibility that such impairments are also associated with prodromal PD.

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Y.C. and M.J.M. gratefully acknowledge financial support from the CERCA Programme of the Generalitat de Catalunya (Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain).

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Compta, Y., Martí, M. What goes around comes around: cognitive impairment as prodromal parkinsonism?. Nat Rev Neurol 13, 709–710 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrneurol.2017.159

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