Makayla Portley, Carolyn Sherer, Tianxia Wu, Jennifer Farren, Laura E Danielian, Sonja W Scholz, Bryan J Traynor, Michael E Ward, Taryn Haselhuhn, Allison Snyder, Justin Y Kwan
OBJECTIVE: Cognitive contributions to decisional capacity are complex and not well understood. Capacity to consent for research has been linked to executive function, but executive function assessment tools are imperfect. In this study, we examine the relationship between decisional capacity and a newly developed executive function composite score and determine whether cognitive performance can predict impaired decisional capacity. METHODS: This is a cross sectional study of participants at the National Institutes of Health with frontotemporal dementia-amyotrophic lateral sclerosis spectrum disorders enrolled between 2017 and 2022...
August 6, 2023: Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology