BACKGROUND: cognitive commitments in Parkinson's disease. PURPOSE: to point out the existence of cognitive deficit in Parkinson's disease, describing its characteristics. CONCLUSIONS: cognitive alterations in Parkinson's disease (such as memory, language, visual-spatial capacity and execution functions) are found in the literature, however, there is a lack of information such as the speech therapist rehabilitation of patients in such -specific language-related area.
Parkinson Disease; Memory; Language; Cognition