Computerized cognitive training in older adults with mild cognitive impairment or dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis

American Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 174, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 329-340

  Hill, Nicole T M ^a   Mowszowski, Loren ^a   Naismith, Sharon L ^a   Chadwick, Verity L ^a   Valenzuela, Michael ^a   Lampit, Amit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMAN; LEARNING; META ANALYSIS; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NONVERBAL LEARNING; NONVERBAL MEMORY; PROCESSING SPEED; REVIEW; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VERBAL MEMORY; VIDEO GAME; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUOSPATIAL PROCESSING; WORKING MEMORY; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; TEACHING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION; COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 85016952661     PISSN: 0002953X     EISSN: 15357228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2016.16030360     Document Type: Review

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