The Impact Of Parkinson's Disease On Prospective Memory

Impact of Parkinson’s disease on Prospective Memory Parkinson’s disease is a degenerative disorder that destroys the neurological system of an individual. A degenerative disorder attacks the central nervous system of the patient over a long-term period of time. One of the most common negative effects of the disease is that it severely affects the motor skills of the individual as the disease progresses (Carr & Shepherd, 2011). Other symptoms include involuntary shaking, slow movements, and difficulty in walking and thinking. Prospective memory (PM) is the ability to retain a memory and to use that information to do things deliberately in the future. There is little that is known about the correlations between the Prospective Memory functions