What are the benefits and harms of cognitive training for people with people with mild to moderate dementia?

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Burch ◽  
Adrian Preda
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Training ◽  
Moderate Dementia

scholarly journals Evidence of cognitive training in mild to moderate dementia

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-71
Author(s):  
Nurul Ain Mohd Nizam
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Training ◽  
Cochrane Review ◽  
Brain Training ◽  
Clinical Perspective ◽  
Alternative Interventions ◽  
Societal Burden ◽  
Moderate Dementia ◽  
Dementia Treatment

SUMMARYThere is urgent need to search for a dementia treatment that can delay its progression and reduce its financial and societal burden. Despite lacking evidence, there is a large number of commercial brain-training products on the market that claim they improve cognition. The Cochrane review under consideration looks at whether cognitive training maintains or improves cognition in those with mild to moderate dementia compared with control and alternative interventions. This commentary puts its findings into clinical perspective.

scholarly journals Cognitive training for people with mild to moderate dementia: a Cochrane Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 66-66
Author(s):  
Alex Bahar-Fuchs ◽  
Anthony Martyr ◽  
Anita M.Y. Goh ◽  
Julieta Sabates ◽  
Linda Clare
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Training ◽  
Cochrane Review ◽  
Moderate Dementia

scholarly journals Cognitive training for people with mild to moderate dementia

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Bahar-Fuchs ◽  
Anthony Martyr ◽  
Anita MY Goh ◽  
Julieta Sabates ◽  
Linda Clare
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Training ◽  
Moderate Dementia

scholarly journals Neuropsychological outcome of cognitive training in mild to moderate dementia: A randomized controlled trial

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Eeva-Liisa Kallio ◽  
Marja Hietanen ◽  
Hannu Kautiainen ◽  
Kaisu H. Pitkälä
Keyword(s):  
Randomized Controlled Trial ◽  
Cognitive Training ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Neuropsychological Outcome ◽  
Randomized Controlled ◽  
Moderate Dementia

Assessment of Cognitive Training & Social Interaction in People with Mild to Moderate Dementia: A Pilot Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 421-434 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hillary J. Rouse ◽  
Brent J. Small ◽  
Mark E. Faust
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Cognitive Training ◽  
Moderate Dementia

scholarly journals Cognitive training for people with mild to moderate dementia

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Bahar-Fuchs ◽  
Anthony Martyr ◽  
Anita MY Goh ◽  
Julieta Sabates ◽  
Linda Clare
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Training ◽  
Moderate Dementia

Task-Switching Training and Transfer

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 106-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zsófia Anna Gaál ◽  
István Czigler
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Cognitive Training ◽  
Task Switching ◽  
Difficulty Level ◽  
Training Procedure ◽  
Far Transfer ◽  
Near Transfer ◽  
Related Potentials ◽  
Transfer Tasks

Abstract. We used task-switching (TS) paradigms to study how cognitive training can compensate age-related cognitive decline. Thirty-nine young (age span: 18–25 years) and 40 older (age span: 60–75 years) women were assigned to training and control groups. The training group received 8 one-hour long cognitive training sessions in which the difficulty level of TS was individually adjusted. The other half of the sample did not receive any intervention. The reference task was an informatively cued TS paradigm with nogo stimuli. Performance was measured on reference, near-transfer, and far-transfer tasks by behavioral indicators and event-related potentials (ERPs) before training, 1 month after pretraining, and in case of older adults, 1 year later. The results showed that young adults had better pretraining performance. The reference task was too difficult for older adults to form appropriate representations as indicated by the behavioral data and the lack of P3b components. But after training older adults reached the level of performance of young participants, and accordingly, P3b emerged after both the cue and the target. Training gain was observed also in near-transfer tasks, and partly in far-transfer tasks; working memory and executive functions did not improve, but we found improvement in alerting and orienting networks, and in the execution of variants of TS paradigms. Behavioral and ERP changes remained preserved even after 1 year. These findings suggest that with an appropriate training procedure older adults can reach the level of performance seen in young adults and these changes persist for a long period. The training also affects the unpracticed tasks, but the transfer depends on the extent of task similarities.

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