Assessing Error Awareness as a Mediator of the Relationship between Subjective Concerns and Cognitive Performance in Older Adults.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Subjective concerns of cognitive decline (SCD) often manifest in older adults who exhibit objectively normal cognitive functioning. This subjective-objective discrepancy is counter-intuitive when mounting evidence suggests that subjective concerns relate to future clinical progression to Alzheimer's disease, and so possess the potential to be a sensitive early behavioural marker of disease. In the current study, we aimed to determine whether individual variability in conscious awareness of errors in daily life might mediate this subjective-objective relationship.

Methods

67 cognitively-normal older adults underwent cognitive, SCD and mood tests, and an error awareness task.

Results

Poorer error awareness was not found to mediate a relationship between SCD a

SUBMITTER: Buckley RF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5104449 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature