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
and the mild cognitive impairment in individuals that it affects (O’Suilleabhain, 2006). Parkinson’s disease can affect the memory by reducing the ability to carry out tasks that a normal person would find easy when confronted with challenges that strain their time-based Prospective Memory capacities. It takes a keen person to notice the early signs and to be able to seek the right medical attention that will diagnose the problem, which is the reason why this literature review is so important. The purpose of this paper is to review the research on the impact of Parkinson’s disease on Prospective Memory, then to propose a future research topic, and detail the participants that will be included in the study.