“…All participants underwent comprehensive and standard neurocognitive assessments to evaluate their cognitive function, including general cognitive functions, episodic memory, executive function, information processing speed, and visual spatial domains (Gu et al, 2017; Gao et al, 2018). These assessments include the MMSE, the ADL, the MDRS-2, the MoCA, the SCD-Q, the CDR, the Hachinski Ischemic Scale (HIS), the HAMD, the Auditory Verbal Learning Test (AVLT; including the AVLT-immediate, the AVLT-5 min delay, and the AVLT-20 min delay), the Rey Complex Figure Test (CFT) delay, the Logical Memory Test (LMT), the CFT, the Clock-Drawing Test (CDT), the Boston Naming Test, the Category Verbal Fluency Test (including the CVFT-animals and the CVFT-objects), the Symbol Digit Modalities Test, the part A and B of the Trail Making Test (TMT), the Digit Span Test (including the DS forward and the DS backward), part A, B, and C of the Stroop Test, and the Semantic Similarity Test.…”