title: Information processing speed in Friedreich's ataxia.
abstract: Three patients with Friedreich's ataxia and six controls matched by age and vocabulary and information scores on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised were administered a measure of short-term memory scanning. Patients with Friedreich's ataxia demonstrated a deficit in information processing speed in the relative absence of impairment in attention, memory, language, judgment, reasoning, and other cognitive functions. The short-term memory scanning procedure may be useful in documenting cognitive slowing and in distinguishing this impairment from the motor abnormality often associated with a subcortical brain disorder.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D005621:Friedreich Ataxia / Q000150:complications* / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D008950:MMPI; D008297:Male; D008570:Memory, Short-Term; D014888:Wechsler Scales