Assessing Cognitive Impairment in Parkinson's Disease: A Comparison of Two Tower Tasks

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• Disclosure: Audrey McKinlay was sponsored by New Zealand Foundation for Research Science and Technology and by a Claude McCarthy Fellowship. This study has been funded by a grant from the Canterbury Medical Research Foundation.
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