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

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-71
Author(s):  
Nurul Ain Mohd Nizam

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.



2021 ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Tobias Loetscher

BACKGROUND: The majority of people living with Parkinson’s disease will develop impairments in cognition. These impairments are associated with a reduced quality of life. OBJECTIVE: The Cochrane Review aimed to investigate whether cognitive training improves cognition in people with Parkinson’s disease and mild cognitive impairments or dementia. METHODS: A Cochrane Review by Orgeta et al. was summarized with comments. RESULTS: The review included seven studies with a total of 225 participants. There was no evidence for improvements in global cognition when cognitive training was compared to control conditions. Observed improvements in attention and verbal memory measures after cognitive training could not be confirmed in a subsequent sensitivity analysis. There was no evidence for benefits in other cognitive domains or quality of life measures. The certainty of the evidence was low for all comparisons. CONCLUSIONS: The effectiveness of cognitive training for people with Parkinson’s disease and cognitive impairments remains inconclusive. There is a pressing need for adequately powered trials with higher methodological quality.



2006 ◽  
Vol 14 (7S_Part_31) ◽  
pp. P1627-P1627
Author(s):  
Alex Bahar-Fuchs ◽  
Anthony Martyr ◽  
Anita Goh ◽  
Linda Clare


2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (S7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Bahar‐Fuchs ◽  
Anthony Martyr ◽  
Anita M Y Goh ◽  
Julieta M Sabates ◽  
Linda Clare


Author(s):  
Alex Bahar-Fuchs ◽  
Anthony Martyr ◽  
Anita MY Goh ◽  
Julieta Sabates ◽  
Linda Clare




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