ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2022
Higher-Level Executive Functions in Healthy Elderly and Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Systematic Review.
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- The complex burden of determining prevalence rates of mild cognitive impairment: A systematic review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
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- Artificial Intelligence for the Early Detection of Patients with Cognitive Impairment: A Scoping Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Pupil dilation as a marker of attention/effort in aging and mild cognitive impairment.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026Article
- Study of event-related potentials to identify differences in verbal working memory in patients with mild cognitive impairment with different Traditional Chinese Medicine syndromes.Journal of traditional Chinese medicine = Chung i tsa chih ying wen pan · 2026Article
- Identification of the central symptoms of neuropsychiatric symptoms among older adults with mild cognitive impairment: a network analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Clock drawing test strategies among older adults with and without cognitive impairment.Dementia & neuropsychologia · 2026Article
- The Picture Interpretation Test 360°: A Virtual Reality Screening Tool for Executive Dysfunction and Rehabilitation Stratification in Mild Cognitive Impairment.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Disrupted Practice Effects and Altered Prefrontal Activation in Mild Cognitive Impairment: An fNIRS Study Using the Stroop Task.Brain and behavior · 2025Article
- Latent Profiles Based on Combined Risk Factors for Cognitive Decline in European Older Adults: A Retrospective Study Based on the SHARE HCAP Project.Neurology international · 2025Article
- Preliminary Evidence of Biological and Cognitive Efficacy of Prismatic Adaptation Combined with Cognitive Training on Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment.Biomedicines · 2025Article
- Association between perceived occupational performance and satisfaction and balance, gait, and fear of falling in older adults with mild cognitive impairment.The British journal of occupational therapy · 2025Article
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- The Effect of Physical Activity on Executive Functions in the Elderly Population: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- Dual task reactive balance control in older adults with mild cognitive impairment: does the cognitive task domain make a difference?Journal of neurophysiology · 2025Article
- Electrophysiological Insights in Exergaming-Electroencephalography Data Recording and Movement Artifact Detection: Systematic Review.JMIR serious games · 2025Review
- Brain compensatory activation during Stroop task in patients with mild cognitive impairment: a functional near-infrared spectroscopy study.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2025Article
- Functional cognitive performance augments cognitive screening data in older adults.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2025Article
- Improved dementia screening for elderly with low education in South Korea using the Cognitive Impairment Screening Test (CIST).Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
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Abstract
Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is a clinical syndrome characterized by a moderate decline in one or more cognitive functions with a preserved autonomy in daily life activities. MCI exhibits cognitive, behavioral, psychological symptoms. The executive functions (EFs) are key functions for everyday life and physical and mental health and allow for the behavior to adapt to external changes. Higher-level executive functions develop from basic EFs (inhibition, working memory, attentional control, and cognitive flexibility). They are planning, reasoning, problem solving, and fluid intelligence (Gf). This systematic review investigates the relationship between higher-level executive functions and healthy and pathological aging, assuming the role of executive functions deficits as a predictor of cognitive decline. The systematic review was conducted according to the PRISMA Statement. A total of 73 studies were identified. The results indicate that 65.8% of the studies confirm significant EFs alterations in MCI (56.8% planning, 50% reasoning, 100% problem solving, 71.4% fluid intelligence). These results seem to highlight a strong prevalence of higher-level executive functions deficits in MCI elderly than in healthy elderly.
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