Associations between Cognitive Decline and Gait Slowing: Informing about the Meaning and Future Development
A special issue of Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Sensory and Motor Neuroscience".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 February 2023) | Viewed by 2373
Special Issue Editors
Interests: diabetic foot; peripheral diabetic neuropathy; wearable sensor; gait analysis
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Gait and postural impairments either together or individually, are common among people with older age and cognitive decline. Neurocognitive diseases and gait impairments often coexist in older adults and both conditions represent an increased risk of falling or reporting a fall-related injury experienced during standing and walking leading to frailty, decreased independence and poorer quality of life.
Gait is an activity that requires not only muscle strength but also good executive function and attention as well as the judgment of external and internal cues.
The relationship between cognitive function and gait has recently received increasing attention. Recent technological developments in biomechanical investigation using wearable inertial sensors show promise in order to monitor gait and postural abnormalities that may adversely affect people with neurocognitive diseases.
Consensus on the assessment protocols and parameters is still lacking. Gait velocity, cadence and stride length were the most frequently recorded parameters, and further work should be conducted to choose the most sensitive ones for different outcomes.
This Special Issue aims to present current findings and perspectives on normal and abnormal gait, postural impairments and cognition with the goal to expand the knowledge of neurobiological and pathological basis.
We will consider relevant work including research articles, opinion/perspective articles, and review articles (narrative review, systematic review, meta-analysis).
Dr. Lorenzo Brognara
Dr. Bernd Grimm
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cognition
- executive function
- cognitive impairment
- gait
- posture
- inertial sensor
- fall risk
