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Neurocognition of centenarians
— neuropsychological study of elite centenarians | | Author(s) | E Luczywek, T Gabryelewicz, A Barczak |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 22, no 10, October 2007 |
| Pages | pp 1004-1008 |
| Source | http://www.interscience.wiley.com |
| Keywords | Centenarians ; Mental ageing ; Cognitive processes ; Evaluation ; Poland. |
| Annotation | In this Polish study, 10 centenarians and a reference group of 20 people who started ageing (65 years) were examined with a sensitive set of neuropsychological tests and tasks in clinical-experimental assessment. As expected, the centenarians' cognitive functions differed from those of the subjects who started ageing, but not in all aspects. For instance, the former scored significantly lower in the area of linguistic function but the ability to plan and perform controlled complex visuospatial tasks with use of simultaneous and sequential strategies was preserved despite unfavourable symptoms of natural ageing such as performance attention as well as prolonged action time. The results suggest that the centenarians studied show a dominant right-hemispheric pattern functioning not only in relation to perception, but also in planning and executing complex activities. The study and description of preserved neurocognition was possible due to introducing a special procedure sensitive to the preserved functions. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-071113217 A |
| Classmark | BBT: D6: DA: 4C: 7AE |
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