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Francesco Franza1, Barbara Solomita, Andreana Franza
1Rehabilitation Psychiatric Center "Villa dei Pini", 83100 Avellino, Italy, franza.francesco@virgilio.it; neamente.com.
Abstract:
Cognitive reserve (CR) is essential in reducing natural cognitive decline. Identified in neurodegenerative pathologies, it also increasingly plays a role in the development of the symptomatic processes of numerous psychiatric pathologies. CR could help identify subgroups of elderly patients affected by primary psychosis and mood disorders and evaluate their correlation with diagnostic and therapeutic trajectories. Our observational study assessed the correlation between cognitive reserve and cognitive and psychopathological trajectories in a group of elderly inpatients in health residential centers. After two years of observation, the results indicate a correlation between cognitive reserve levels and psychopathological and cognitive trajectories. No significant variations or correlations were observed between another investigation factor, aberrant salience, and the symptoms in the above trajectories.
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