Educational disparities in Brazil may interfere with the cognitive performance of Parkinson's disease patients.
Danielle Pessoa LimaJanine de Carvalho BonfadiniAlexandre Henrique Silva CarneiroSamuel Brito de-AlmeidaAntonio Brazil Viana JuniorAna Cecília Nogueira E SilvaJarbas de Sá Roriz-FilhoPedro Braga NetoPublished in: Dementia & neuropsychologia (2023)
Most of the sample had lower performance according to Brazilian thresholds, but there was no control group and no neuropsychological test in this study. Further studies in northeast Brazil are needed to review MMSE cut-off values.