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What is the role of cognitive training exercises in older patients with short-term memory problems and/or are diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment?

Evidence is somewhat mixed on whether these exercises translate into improved cognition outside of the games/exercises themselves.
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Psychiatry · McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School
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You are correct. The evidence so far is level C - as far as I know. No robust RCTs.

Exercise gets a Level B recommendation.

You may maximize benefit by offering more supervision (supervised computerized cognitive training), combining with resistance training, and/or increasing frequency. Most effect...

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