Chinese Calligraphy Writing for Augmenting Attentional Control and Working Memory of Older Adults at Risk of Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Chan, S.C.; Chan, Che Hin; Derbie, Abiot Y.; Hui, Irene; Tan, D.G.H.; Pang, Marco Yiu Chung; Lau, S. H.; Fong, Kenneth N. K.

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“…Hong Kong version of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA-HK) was administered to each participant for assessing their visuospatial and executive functions, naming, attention, language, abstraction, delayed recall, and orientation functions [37]. The diagnostic criteria for participants classi ed as the MCI group (speci cally for Chinese individuals with seven or more years of education) included: 1) MoCA score of 24 or below [38]; 2) self-reported independence in daily living activities; and 3) self-reported cognitive decline [20][21][22]. Those who scored 25 or higher on MoCA-HK were classi ed into the healthy control group.…”

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“…Those who scored 25 or higher on MoCA-HK were classi ed into the healthy control group. These diagnostic criteria were adopted from a recent study by the author [20] and other previous studies by other researchers [21,39,40].…”

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“…Besides visuospatial function, another construct which is the focus of this study is psychological resilience. Classic diagnostic criteria of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) appear to bias towards cognition such as the adoption of self-report cognitive decline and objective cognitive measure [20][21][22]. This prompts the question, would psychosocial construct such as resilience presently not included as a criterion for MCI as well as cognitive reserve is protective of MCI?…”

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Mild cognitive impairment in older adults: the role of cognitive reserve and resilience

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Background Positive ageing amid of age-related neurodegeneration is a global challenge. The present study examined whether psychological resilience can be a protective factor among older adults. Methods The participants were 233 community-dwelling older individuals with or without mild cognitive impairment (MCI). They completed testing on resilience and the cognitive reserve proxies. Hierarchical logistic regression was conducted to test the hypotheses of the present study. Results After controlling for age and the cognitive reserve proxies, resilience (b= -0.38) and resilience × visuospatial function significantly predicted MCI group membership (ps < 0.05). There are two new findings. First, higher level of resilience in addition to the conventional cognitive reserve proxies predicted lower MCI risks. Second, MCI participants with higher level of resilience had significantly higher visuospatial ability than their lower level counterparts. Conclusions These findings raise the question of whether resilience should be considered as a cognitive reserve proxy. It also calls for future research to enhance the level of resilience in older adults for healthy ageing.

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“…We excluded a total of two reviews [19,35], five case reports [36][37][38][39][40] and two protocols [41,42]. Sixteen studies were excluded from the present systematic review because they did not use mobile applications to train cognitive functions [20,43,[52][53][54][55][56][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51]. Eleven studies were excluded because they used mobile applications only to assess -and not to train -cognitive functions [57,58,67,[59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66].…”

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Training Cognitive Functions Using Mobile Apps in Breast Cancer Patients: Systematic Review

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Marton²,

Pizzoli³

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BackgroundBreast cancer is an invalidating disease and, in particular, its treatment can bring serious side effects that have a physical and psychological impact as well. Specifically, cancer's treatment generally has a strong impact on cognitive function. In the last years, new technologies and eHealth had proved to have a growing influence on health care and innovative mobile applications can be a useful tool to deliver cognitive exercise in the patient's home.

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“…19,20 In addition to attentional control, upper limb motor function was also investigated in the present study because previous findings suggest that multisensory integration significantly enhances motor control and motor learning. 21 Although there are a number of non-pharmacological interventions to improve the cognitive decline in individuals with MCI including aerobic exercise, Chinese calligraphy, and mental activity, [22][23][24] the current study was the first to adopt an audiovisual integrative approach for the individuals with MCI.…”

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Audiovisual integrative training for augmenting cognitive- motor functions in older adults with mild cognitive impairment

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Har

Ngai

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Background: Previous studies indicated that the behavioral performances of older adults could be enhanced by multisensory integration. This pilot study tested the benefits of an audiovisual integrative (AV) training for improving the cognitive and upper limb motor functions in older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI).Methods: Twenty participants, according to their MoCA scores, with ten in each of a MCI (mean age= 63.3 years) and healthy older adult group (mean age= 64.7 years), engaged in AV integrative training. They were recruited from the Institute of Active Ageing at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. The screening was conducted from February to March 2018 and the training program which consisted of three sessions (2 hours each) was conducted from 14-28th May 2018. Their executive function, attention and upper limb functions were measured by the Stroop Test and Purdue Pegboard Test respectively.Results: The mixed linear model analysis results showed significant Time x Group interaction effects in the time used in the Stroop Test (dots) (p = 0.042) and the Purdue Pegboard scores (non-dominant hand use) (p = 0.025). The MCI group exhibited significantly more improvements in attentional control and non-dominant hand motor functions after the training.Conclusions: The findings suggest that the AV integrative training has the potential for enhancing the cognitive and motor functions of older adults with MCI. Furthermore, AV integrative training can serve as an alternative non-pharmacological intervention for combating neurodegeneration in older adults.

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Chinese Calligraphy Writing for Augmenting Attentional Control and Working Memory of Older Adults at Risk of Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Cited by 31 publications

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Mild cognitive impairment in older adults: the role of cognitive reserve and resilience

Mild cognitive impairment in older adults: the role of cognitive reserve and resilience

Training Cognitive Functions Using Mobile Apps in Breast Cancer Patients: Systematic Review

Audiovisual integrative training for augmenting cognitive- motor functions in older adults with mild cognitive impairment

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