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Theory of mind in patients with mild cognitive impairment: A systematic review

The focus of this systematic review was to collect and align studies which analyze the functionality of theory of mind (TOM) in patients with mild cognitive impairments (MCI). Specifically, we identified 20 papers published between 2012 and 2022 which met inclusion criteria. Papers search, selection...

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Autores principales: Morellini, Lucia, Izzo, Alessia, Ceroni, Martino, Rossi, Stefania, Zerboni, Giorgia, Rege-Colet, Laura, Biglia, Elena, Sacco, Leonardo
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9623288/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36329733
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.994070
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author Morellini, Lucia
Izzo, Alessia
Ceroni, Martino
Rossi, Stefania
Zerboni, Giorgia
Rege-Colet, Laura
Biglia, Elena
Sacco, Leonardo
author_facet Morellini, Lucia
Izzo, Alessia
Ceroni, Martino
Rossi, Stefania
Zerboni, Giorgia
Rege-Colet, Laura
Biglia, Elena
Sacco, Leonardo
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description The focus of this systematic review was to collect and align studies which analyze the functionality of theory of mind (TOM) in patients with mild cognitive impairments (MCI). Specifically, we identified 20 papers published between 2012 and 2022 which met inclusion criteria. Papers search, selection, and extraction followed the PRISMA guidelines. In order to summarize data from the papers, we used a narrative synthesis approach. Results in 18 of these 20 papers show that theory of mind (TOM) is impaired in all types of MCI patients—regardless of different etiology and diagnostic criteria. Only 2 out of 20 reported no significant differences in TOM performance between MCI patients and healthy control subjects. The review additionally aimed to bundle the variety of the type of tasks used by the author to assess multiple domains of TOM. This heterogeneity does not allow us to make a comprehensive comparison between the results, so we suggest the need to align the results using the same type of tests and TOM assessment. In the end, our work highlights the 2 neuropsychological studies which confirm more of our results; due to the objective approach adopted to investigate this topic, we suggest exploring this point of view more in future research.
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spelling pubmed-96232882022-11-02 Theory of mind in patients with mild cognitive impairment: A systematic review Morellini, Lucia Izzo, Alessia Ceroni, Martino Rossi, Stefania Zerboni, Giorgia Rege-Colet, Laura Biglia, Elena Sacco, Leonardo Front Psychol Psychology The focus of this systematic review was to collect and align studies which analyze the functionality of theory of mind (TOM) in patients with mild cognitive impairments (MCI). Specifically, we identified 20 papers published between 2012 and 2022 which met inclusion criteria. Papers search, selection, and extraction followed the PRISMA guidelines. In order to summarize data from the papers, we used a narrative synthesis approach. Results in 18 of these 20 papers show that theory of mind (TOM) is impaired in all types of MCI patients—regardless of different etiology and diagnostic criteria. Only 2 out of 20 reported no significant differences in TOM performance between MCI patients and healthy control subjects. The review additionally aimed to bundle the variety of the type of tasks used by the author to assess multiple domains of TOM. This heterogeneity does not allow us to make a comprehensive comparison between the results, so we suggest the need to align the results using the same type of tests and TOM assessment. In the end, our work highlights the 2 neuropsychological studies which confirm more of our results; due to the objective approach adopted to investigate this topic, we suggest exploring this point of view more in future research. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-10-18 /pmc/articles/PMC9623288/ /pubmed/36329733 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.994070 Text en Copyright © 2022 Morellini, Izzo, Ceroni, Rossi, Zerboni, Rege-Colet, Biglia and Sacco. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Morellini, Lucia
Izzo, Alessia
Ceroni, Martino
Rossi, Stefania
Zerboni, Giorgia
Rege-Colet, Laura
Biglia, Elena
Sacco, Leonardo
Theory of mind in patients with mild cognitive impairment: A systematic review
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9623288/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36329733
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.994070
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