Controversias y utilidad clínica del deterioro cognitivo leve (dcl)
- 1 E. U. M. Fray Luis de León
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Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca
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ISSN: 0214-9877
Year of publication: 2014
Issue Title: La salud del adulto mayor: Investigación e Intervención
Volume: 1
Issue: 2
Pages: 47-54
Type: Article
More publications in: International Journal of Developmental and Educational Psychology: INFAD. Revista de Psicología
Abstract
Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is a transitional condition between the cognitive changes of the normal aging and an early stadium of the dementia. At present, the concept Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is recognized as a pathological condition, not as a normal process associated with the age, and it is in use for recounting to a group of individuals who present certain degree of cognitive deficit which severity turns out to be insufficient to fulfill criteria of dementia since they do not present an essential commitment in the activities of the daily life. Since term presents numerous controversies as it is done by the affirmation of his subtypes, inside this entity us obstante there is raised the interest that it has provoked in the last decades. Nevertheless his diagnosis is difficult in spite of being very important, in the current moment it is realized by means of tests neurology-psychological and tells the history clinical. It is probable that in a few years you prove with biomarkers constitute a decisive contribution for this diagnosis.