Are specific experimental tasks applicable for evaluating executive functions in elderly patients with mild cognitive impairment?
Evaluating executive functions using specific experimental tasks can provide a more detailed cognitive profile in elderly patients with MCI, potentially improving diagnosis and treatment compared to standard assessments.
The results of this review support the applicability of the four experimental tasks examined for the study of EFs in people with MCI. These paradigms are useful in research, diagnosis and therapeutic purposes, allowing obtaining an articulated EFs profile that can compromise the daily life in elderly. These EFs are not generally evaluated by standard assessment of MCI, but their evaluation can lead to a better knowledge of MCI and help in the diagnosis and treatment.
Guarino et al. (Tue,) studied this question.