- Tytuł:
- Neuropsychologiczne badania funkcji wykonawczych u schyłku życia
- Autorzy:
- Jodzio, Krzysztof
- Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/637209.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2008
- Wydawca:
- Uniwersytet Jagielloński. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
- Tematy:
- executive function, aging, neuropsychological assessment, frontal lobes
- Opis:
- Assessment of executive function in an aging populationThe aim of this article is to review the literature about changes in brain and behavior that occur in later life, with particular implications for age changes in executive function, which comprises those capacities that enable a person to engage successfully in organized, goal-directed, flexible behaviour. Neuropsychological evaluation is emphasized because brain changes play a prominent role in the behavioural disturbances in an aging population, i.e. over 65-year old. The article provides an overview of selected aging processes, i.e. executive control, efforful inhibition of motor or cognitive response, and set shifting. There is wide agreement that the neural systems of the prefrontal cortex underlie age differences in cognitive decline, both general and specific to planning and control processes. It has also been argued that the volume of the frontal lobes decrease more than other cerebral areas with age. Some distinguishing features of both normal aging and cerebral pathology (e.g., Parkinson’s disease) are descibed in order to present a neuropsychological picture of these conditions, which is essential for the process of differential diagnosis. Moreover, the importance of “ecologically” valid evaluating of executive function in older patients was underscored, since it may be valid indicators of outcome and behaviour in everyday life. A fundamental thesis is that the complexity of demands imposed by everyday life can lead to significant dysfunction even when fairly good performance is observed during formal neuropsychological testing.
- Źródło:
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Psychologia Rozwojowa; 2008, 13, 1
1895-6297
2084-3879 - Pojawia się w:
- Psychologia Rozwojowa
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki