Executive functions in Alzheimer disease: A systematic review

A Guarino, F Favieri, I Boncompagni… - Frontiers in aging …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Alzheimer's disease is a severe irreversible syndrome, characterized by a slow and
progressive cognitive decline that interferes with the standard instrumental and essential …

The impact of cognitive training and mental stimulation on cognitive and everyday functioning of healthy older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis

ME Kelly, D Loughrey, BA Lawlor, IH Robertson… - Ageing research …, 2014 - Elsevier
This systematic review and meta-analysis investigates the impact of cognitive training and
general mental stimulation on the cognitive and everyday functioning of older adults without …

Inhibition in aging: What is preserved? What declines? A meta-analysis

A Rey-Mermet, M Gade - Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2018 - Springer
Aging has been assumed to go along with deficient inhibitory processes in cognitive
performance. According to this inhibition deficit hypothesis, older adults are less able to …

NIH Toolbox Cognition Battery (CB): Validation of executive function measures in adults

PD Zelazo, JE Anderson, J Richler… - Journal of the …, 2014 - cambridge.org
This study describes psychometric properties of the NIH Toolbox Cognition Battery (NIHTB-
CB) executive function measures in an adult sample. The NIHTB-CB was designed for use …

Abnormal salience network in normal aging and in amnestic mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

X He, W Qin, Y Liu, X Zhang, Y Duan… - Human brain …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The salience network (SN) serves to identify salient stimuli and to switch between the central
executive network (CEN) and the default‐mode network (DMN), both of which are impaired …

Practice of contemporary dance improves cognitive flexibility in aging

OA Coubard, S Duretz, V Lefebvre… - Frontiers in aging …, 2011 - frontiersin.org
As society ages and frequency of dementia increases exponentially, counteracting cognitive
aging decline is a challenging issue for countries of the developed world. Previous studies …

Defining Alzheimer as a common age-related neurodegenerative process not inevitably leading to dementia

I Ferrer - Progress in neurobiology, 2012 - Elsevier
Since the description by Alois Alzheimer, more than 50 years have passed during which
senile dementia and pre-senile dementia have been considered Alzheimer disease (AD) on …

Attention and ageing

TP Zanto, A Gazzaley - 2014 - academic.oup.com
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Online games training aging brains: limited transfer to cognitive control functions

J Van Muijden, GPH Band, B Hommel - Frontiers in human …, 2012 - frontiersin.org
The prevalence of age-related cognitive decline will increase due to graying of the global
population. The goal of the present study was to test whether playing online cognitive …

Executive function abilities in cognitively healthy young and older adults—A cross-sectional study

MI Idowu, AJ Szameitat - Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2023 - frontiersin.org
A prominent feature of cognitive aging is the decline of executive function (EF) abilities.
Numerous studies have reported that older adults perform poorer than younger adults in …