The role of limbic structures in financial abilities of mild cognitive impairment patients

Benavides-Varela, Silvia; Burgio, Francesca; Weis, Luca; Mitolo, Micaela; Palmer, Katie; Toffano, Roberta; Arcara, Giorgio; Vallesi, Antonino; Mantini, Dante; Meneghello, Francesca; Semenza, Carlo

doi:10.1016/j.nicl.2020.102222

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“…In fact, adults with DD scored significantly lower than control participants in the NADL Interview (which inquires about the individual's perception of their ability to deal with the numerical activities of everyday life), suggesting that they are fully aware of their numerical difficulties. Acknowledging difficulties in numerical activities in everyday life involves other metacognitive and emotional capacities outside the numerical domain [42]. Unawareness of deteriorated numerical skills, which was observed in other clinical populations assessed with the NADL instrument [30,32], can exacerbate the consequences of the deficit and influence the compliance of patients when interventions are proposed.…”

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Dyscalculia in Early Adulthood: Implications for Numerical Activities of Daily Living

Vigna

Ghidoni²,

Burgio

et al. 2022

Brain Sciences

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Numerical abilities are fundamental in our society. As a consequence, poor numerical skills might have a great impact on daily living. This study analyzes the extent to which the numerical deficit observed in young adults with Developmental Dyscalculia (DD) impacts their activities of everyday life. For this purpose, 26 adults with DD and 26 healthy controls completed the NADL, a standardized battery that assesses numerical skills in both formal and informal contexts. The results showed that adults with DD had poorer arithmetical skills in both formal and informal settings. In particular, adults with DD presented difficulties in time and measure estimation as well as money usage in real-world numerical tasks. In contrast, everyday tasks regarding distance estimation were preserved. In addition, the assessment revealed that adults with DD were aware of their numerical difficulties, which were often related to emotional problems and negatively impacted their academic and occupational decisions. Our study highlights the need to design innovative interventions and age-appropriate training for adults with DD to support their numerical skills as well as their social and emotional well-being.

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Dyscalculia in Early Adulthood: Implications for Numerical Activities of Daily Living

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Ghidoni²,

Burgio

et al. 2022

Brain Sciences

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“…In particular, Chang [36] observed a higher performance in healthy subjects than MCI with normal awareness for memory (MCI-na), which in turn were better than MCI with poor awareness for memory (MCI-pa). Two studies used "Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices -RCPM" [32,73] and observed a reduced reasoning ability in Mild Cognitive Impairment participants, as well as Benavides-Varela et al, [27] that used "Raven's Progressive Matrices -RPM". Sherod et al, [100] analyzed the differences between healthy subjects and MCI with the "DRS -2 Conceptualization" and "Cognitive Competency Test", and in both tests MCI had lower abstraction than healthy controls.…”

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“…Seventeen studies used "Similarities" [37,45,55,56,57,59,60,61,63,65,72,75,76,77,80,101,104]; six studies used "Matrix Reasoning" [36,37,39,53,57,80]; four studies used "Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices (RCPM)" [32,73,96,97]; four studies used "Proverbs" [55,56,60,70]; two studies used "Cognitive Competency Test" [79,100]; two studies used "Abstraction -MoCA" [50,110]; two studies used "DRS-2 Conceptualization" [79,100]; one study used "ACED Money Management" [67]; one study used "MacCAT-T" [67]; one study used "Block Design" [44]; one study used "Mattis Identities and Oddities" [100]; one study used "Raven's Progressive Matrices (RPM)" [27]; one study used "Abstraction (Wechsler et al, 1997, Kramer et al, 2003)"…”

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Higher-Level Executive Functions in Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Systematic Review

Corbo¹,

Casagrande²

2021

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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 [1]. MCI exhibits cognitive, behavioral, psychological symptoms [2]. The executive functions (EFs) are a set of key functions for everyday life and physical and mental health; and allow adapting the behavior to external changes [3-5]. 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) [3]. 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 [6-7]. A total of 73 studies were identified. The results indicate that 65.8% of the studies confirm significant EFs alterations in MCI (100% problem solving, 71.4% fluid intelligence, 56.8% planning, 50% reasoning). 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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“…These students obtain poor results in mathematics, are at risk for math failure, and have difficulty performing several tasks, such as processing number sets, counting, and fact retrieval ( Geary et al, 2012 ). MD is associated with problems at school and even in activities of daily living later in adulthood (e.g., Semenza et al, 2014 ; Arcara et al, 2017 ; Benavides-Varela et al, 2020b ). Mathematical competence accounts for variance in employment, income, and occupational productivity ( Rivera-Batiz, 1992 ).…”

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Response to a Specific and Digitally Supported Training at Home for Students With Mathematical Difficulties

Benavides-Varela

Pedron

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Front. Psychol.

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The present study evaluated the effectiveness of a shortened, specialized, and digitally supported training program for enhancing numerical skills in primary and secondary school children with mathematical difficulty (MD). The participants ( n = 57) were randomly assigned to two groups: for the experimental group, the tasks were differentiated and adapted to each student’s learning profile. Moreover, children of this group used a Web App (i.e., “I bambini contano” or “Children count” in English) for improving arithmetic fact retrieval at home; for the control group, the difficulty of the activities was graded according to the school curriculum, and this group did not use the Web App. Pre‐ to post-training measurements showed that children of the experimental group had an improvement significantly higher than the control group, in particular in arithmetic facts and written calculation. Moreover, a follow-up evaluation indicated that the efficacy of the experimental training program lasted up to 2 months after the intervention. The results indicate that a specialized face-to-face intervention along with a digitally supported training at home can benefit children with mathematical learning difficulties.

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The role of limbic structures in financial abilities of mild cognitive impairment patients

Cited by 17 publications

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Dyscalculia in Early Adulthood: Implications for Numerical Activities of Daily Living

Dyscalculia in Early Adulthood: Implications for Numerical Activities of Daily Living

Higher-Level Executive Functions in Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Systematic Review

Response to a Specific and Digitally Supported Training at Home for Students With Mathematical Difficulties

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