SynthesisFrontiers in psychology2022
Theory of mind in patients with mild cognitive impairment: A systematic review.
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- Social cognition in mild cognitive impairment and dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025Pooled it
- Beyond memories: A narrative review on the role of amygdalo-hippocampal complex in social cognition.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2026Review
- Longitudinal Trajectories of Cognitive Control and Theory of Mind in Amnestic and Non-Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment: Prospective Associations of Objective Sleep Duration.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Mini-SEA: Validity and Normative Data for the French-Quebec Population Aged 50 Years and Above.Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists · 2025Article
- Examining Specific Theory-of-Mind Aspects in Amnestic and Non-Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment: Their Relationships with Sleep Duration and Cognitive Planning.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- Empathy in mild cognitive impairment: a preliminary clinical comparative study in Southern Switzerland using the interpersonal reactivity index (IRI) and the story-based empathy task (SET).Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2025Article
- Reading the mind in the eyes in patients with idiopathic REM sleep behavior disorder.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2024Article
- Pilot study on the effectiveness of the socialmind program for the rehabilitation of social cognition following acquired brain injury.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Social feedback biases emerge during recall but not prediction and shift across the development of social anxiety.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Theory of Mind and Executive Functions in Individuals with Mild Cognitive Impairment or Healthy Aging.Brain sciences · 2023Article
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Abstract
The focus of this systematic review was to collect and align studies which analyze the functionality of theory of mind (TOM) in patients with mild cognitive impairments (MCI). Specifically, we identified 20 papers published between 2012 and 2022 which met inclusion criteria. Papers search, selection, and extraction followed the PRISMA guidelines. In order to summarize data from the papers, we used a narrative synthesis approach. Results in 18 of these 20 papers show that theory of mind (TOM) is impaired in all types of MCI patients-regardless of different etiology and diagnostic criteria. Only 2 out of 20 reported no significant differences in TOM performance between MCI patients and healthy control subjects. The review additionally aimed to bundle the variety of the type of tasks used by the author to assess multiple domains of TOM. This heterogeneity does not allow us to make a comprehensive comparison between the results, so we suggest the need to align the results using the same type of tests and TOM assessment. In the end, our work highlights the 2 neuropsychological studies which confirm more of our results; due to the objective approach adopted to investigate this topic, we suggest exploring this point of view more in future research.
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