Hello - hope you are doing well. This is after the PD diagnosis in 2009.
In retrospect I was having issues for a few years before thinking much of it. Slight forgetfulness, sometimes had a hard time getting the words out. Then some depresssion set in. That is way outside of my character. With that comes the withdrawal from others, just wanting to be left alone and losing interest in things,
The thing that - on top of the above - was losing the ability to multitask. That has been a must for most of my working years. With what I did, if I couldn’t multitask - I would be a liability.
Then noticing communication problems. Along with the soft voice from the PD, losing track of what is being talked about while in the midst of the conversation. I also forget what I was going to add before I could blurt it out. Then came the getting lost driving. I knew then this thing wasn’t paying around. Since 2019 I have not driven. I’m glad that I got to make it my decision and not later and be told that I wasn’t going to drive.
Now the ability to multitask is all but gone. Reading and comprehending new material is very difficult. Speech communication is more challenging because I am now having some issues with processing facial expressions correctly. I might mistake bored with mad. Then that can set the tone of an attempted conversation. I also cant think fast enough plus I’m slow to get it out. According to the neuro cognitive tests - since 2017 there is a steady decline in “executive function” Went from mild to moderate cognitive impairment in 4 years.
What Ive talked about is just a small list of everything I have noticed and am seeing and hearing (hallucinations) 🙂
I will get a little in more detail on the actual cognitive tests in another post. My wife tells me that I can take a few minutes to say what should take 30 seconds. I guess I like to ramble and go the long way to make a point. I will bet that there is some of that here as well.
This has only taken me 45 minutes to type in. Whew - I’m tired.

Peace
Larry

Hello - I will try to give you some insight to the neuropsych tests that I gave taken several times.
It normally takes me 2,5 hours. I think they allot up to 4 hours to complete. You are in a room with a nurse that guides you thorugh the testing, reading the questions and explaining what to do and give examples on what they are asking you to do. This is great as some of us have trouble following directions. They tests are actually a battery of smaller tests - memory recall ( a slew of tests), numbers, comprehension, reasoning, recreating objects with blocks plus more.
Depending on what they deem necessary - you might have the same tests, more or less tests. That will be dictated on your symptoms and issues.
The tests the are listed on my profile are:
They use the dementia rating scale-2 (DRS-2). Wechsler adult intelligence scale IV subsets: wechsler test of Premorbid functioning: California verbal learning test II short form; wechsler memory scale - IV; logical memory sub test; incomplete letters from the VOSP; Benton judgment of line orientation; noise pareidolia test; trail marking test; strop color-word interference test ; frontal assessment battery; boston naming test; controlled oral word association test; category fluency test; and beck depression inventory II (BDI-2).
That is from my last result. That is as specific as I can get.
It’s an overall good experience. It can be a bit frustrating on some of the tests to see the deficits - the nurse tries to be calming which helps.
I would highly recommend at least getting a baseline for comparison to future tests.

In my situation - we do it annually - of course last year was not very friendly fo this type of testing.

I really hope this helps.