Results: BMS and non-BMS patients showed impaired selective reminding, spatial recall, symbol digit modalities (SDMTs), controlled oral word association (COWAT), paced auditory serial addition-3 (PASAT-3), and Stroop tests. Timed 25-foot walk and 9-hole peg test results of BMS patients were comparable to those of healthy controls. BMS patients with CCR showed significantly improved SDMTs, COWAT, and Stroop test results compared to those without CCR.
Conclusion:Several cognitive domains including memory and executive functions are impaired in BMS patients. CCR has an ameliorating impact particularly on sustained attention, information processing speed, verbal fluency, categorical reasoning, and executive functions of BMS patients.
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