EEG Plus Machine-learning Identifies Mild Cognitive Impairment...

Using non-invasive, dry-electroencephalography (EEG) and machine-learning computer algorithms, researchers were able to distinguish between Parkinson's disease patients with and without mild cognitive impairments with 80% accuracy, early results of a study found. Follow-up assessments will be conducted after 12 months to validate the method's ability to predict cognitive impairment in this patient population. The results were presented in a poster, "The Identification of Mild Cognitive Impairment in Parkinson's disease using EEG and Machine Learning, "at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference 2020. The poster abstract was published in the journal Alzheimer's & Dementia. Cognitive impairment is a common symptom of Parkinson's disease characterized by difficulties in executive function, attention, vision, word-finding, and problems with learning and remembering information.