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Memory rehabilitation during the COVID-19 pandemic
BACKGROUND: Loss of cognitive and executive functions is a problem that affects people of all ages. That is why it is important to perform exercises for memory training and prevent early cognitive deterioration. The aim of this work was to compare the cognitive performance of the participants after...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10523730/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37759259 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12911-023-02294-1 |
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author | Varela-Aldás, José Luis Buele, Jorge Pérez, Doris Palacios-Navarro, Guillermo |
author_facet | Varela-Aldás, José Luis Buele, Jorge Pérez, Doris Palacios-Navarro, Guillermo |
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description | BACKGROUND: Loss of cognitive and executive functions is a problem that affects people of all ages. That is why it is important to perform exercises for memory training and prevent early cognitive deterioration. The aim of this work was to compare the cognitive performance of the participants after an intervention by using two mnemonic techniques to exercise memory functions (paired-associate learning and method of loci). METHODS: A longitudinal study was conducted with 21 healthy participants aged 18 to 55 years over a 2-month period. To assess the impact of this proposal, the NEUROPSI brief battery cognitive assessment test was applied before and after the intervention. In each session, a previous cognitive training was carried out using the paired-associate learning technique, to later perform a task based on the loci method, all from a smart device-based application. The accuracy response and reaction times were automatically collected in the app. RESULTS: After the intervention, a statistically significant improvement was obtained in the neuropsychological assessment (NEUROPSI neuropsychological battery) reflected by the Wilcoxon paired signed-rank test (P < .05). CONCLUSION: The task based on the method of loci also reflected the well-known age-related effects common to memory assessment tasks. Episodic memory training using the method of loci can be successfully implemented using a smart device app. A stage-based methodological design allows to acquire mnemic skills gradually, obtaining a significant cognitive improvement in a short period of time. |
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spelling | pubmed-105237302023-09-28 Memory rehabilitation during the COVID-19 pandemic Varela-Aldás, José Luis Buele, Jorge Pérez, Doris Palacios-Navarro, Guillermo BMC Med Inform Decis Mak Research Article BACKGROUND: Loss of cognitive and executive functions is a problem that affects people of all ages. That is why it is important to perform exercises for memory training and prevent early cognitive deterioration. The aim of this work was to compare the cognitive performance of the participants after an intervention by using two mnemonic techniques to exercise memory functions (paired-associate learning and method of loci). METHODS: A longitudinal study was conducted with 21 healthy participants aged 18 to 55 years over a 2-month period. To assess the impact of this proposal, the NEUROPSI brief battery cognitive assessment test was applied before and after the intervention. In each session, a previous cognitive training was carried out using the paired-associate learning technique, to later perform a task based on the loci method, all from a smart device-based application. The accuracy response and reaction times were automatically collected in the app. RESULTS: After the intervention, a statistically significant improvement was obtained in the neuropsychological assessment (NEUROPSI neuropsychological battery) reflected by the Wilcoxon paired signed-rank test (P < .05). CONCLUSION: The task based on the method of loci also reflected the well-known age-related effects common to memory assessment tasks. Episodic memory training using the method of loci can be successfully implemented using a smart device app. A stage-based methodological design allows to acquire mnemic skills gradually, obtaining a significant cognitive improvement in a short period of time. BioMed Central 2023-09-27 /pmc/articles/PMC10523730/ /pubmed/37759259 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12911-023-02294-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Varela-Aldás, José Luis Buele, Jorge Pérez, Doris Palacios-Navarro, Guillermo Memory rehabilitation during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title | Memory rehabilitation during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full | Memory rehabilitation during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_fullStr | Memory rehabilitation during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | Memory rehabilitation during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_short | Memory rehabilitation during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_sort | memory rehabilitation during the covid-19 pandemic |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10523730/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37759259 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12911-023-02294-1 |
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