Cognitive medicine – a new approach in health care science.
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BACKGROUND: The challenges of today's society call for more knowledge about how to maintain all aspects of cognitive health, such as speed/attention, memory/learning, visuospatial ability, language, executive capacity and social cognition during the life course. MAIN TEXT: Medical advances have improved treatments of numerous diseases, but the cognitive implications have not been sufficiently addressed. Disability induced by cognitive dysfunction is also a major issue in groups of patients not suffering from Alzheimer's disease or related disorders. Recent studies indicate that several negative lifestyle factors can contribute to the development of cognitive impairment, but intervention and prevention strategies have not been implemented. Disability due to cognitive failure among the workforce has become a major challenge. Globally, the changing aging pyramid results in increased prevalence of cognitive disorders, and the diversity of cultures influences the expression, manifestation and consequences of cognitive dysfunction. CONCLUSIONS: Major tasks in the field of cognitive medicine are basic neuroscience research to uncover diverse disease mechanisms, determinations of the prevalence of cognitive dysfunction, health-economical evaluations, and intervention studies. Raising awareness for cognitive medicine as a clinical topic would also highlight the importance of specialized health care units for an integrative approach to the treatment of cognitive dysfunctions.
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There is a lack of efficient psychological interventions to maintain and improve psychological health and to facilitate adherence to health-promoting behavioral change in the cognitively impaired population.
“there is a lack of efficient psychological interventions to maintain and improve psychological health and to facilitate adherence to health-promoting behavioral change (Wallin et al., 2018)”
From Evaluation of a Novel Psychological Intervention Tailored for Patients With Early Cognitive Impairment (PIPCI): Study Protocol of a Randomized Controlled Trial (2020) · cites this paper as Wallin et al., 2018
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- Authors
- Wallin, A., Kettunen, P., Johansson, P. M., Jonsdottir, I. H., Nilsson, C., Nilsson, M., Eckerström, M., Nordlund, A., Nyberg, L., Sunnerhagen, K. S., Svensson, J., Terzis, B., Wahlund, L.-O., & Georg Kuhn, H.
- Affiliations
- University of Gothenburg (SE)
- University of Oxford (GB)
- Lund University (SE)
- Hunter Medical Research Institute (AU)
- Umeå University (SE)
- Karolinska Institutet (SE)
- Corresponding author
- Wallin, Anders
- ORCID
- Venue
- BMC Psychiatry
- Published
- 2018-02-08
- Volume
- 18
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 42-42
- ISSN
- 1471-244X (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC5806385
- OpenAlex
- W2790019714
- Cited by
- 27
- References
- 26
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 4
- FWCI
- 1.77
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
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- NOVA (University of Newcastle Australia) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
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- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Functions and Memory
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine › Cancer-related cognitive impairment studies
- Keywords
- cognitive impairment, cognitive health, lifestyle factors, population aging, prevalence of cognitive impairment, health economics, integrative therapy
- MeSH terms
- Humans, Biomedical Research, Neuropsychiatry, Cognitive Dysfunction
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