Abstract #2844

Short Term Visual Memory Dysfunction in Parkinsonism

Mohit Saxena¹, S. Senthil Kumaran², Madhuri Behari¹, Vinay Goyal¹

¹Department of Neurology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, Delhi, India; ²Department of NMR, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, Delhi, India

Non-motor cognitive impairment like dysfunctions in executive/ speech/ attention/ memory loss are evident in Parkinsonism due to loss of dopaminergic neurons, in nigrostriatal tracts and mesocortical pathway. Identifying cognitive decline may help us understand the short term working memory deficit among the three types of parkinsonism and response to Levodopa.