Abstract

JIMENEZ-MORALES, Rodneys M; HERRERA-JIMENEZ, Luis F; MACIAS-DELGADO, Yanet  and  BROCHE-PEREZ, Yunier. Cognitive reserve in the multiple sclerosis. It´s roll in the evaluation and neuropsychological intervention. Gac Méd Espirit [online]. 2016, vol.18, n.3, pp. 87-97. ISSN 1608-8921.

Background: A great variability of the cognitive functioning exists in the course of the multiple sclerosis, even among patients that have similar patterns of cerebral dysfunction. Objective: To synthesize the most representative scientific results about the particularities of the cognitive reservation in this pathology. Development: It is synthesized on the theoretical and scientific referents related with the pattern of cognitive and cerebral reservation in the multiple sclerosis, base neurobiological of the reservation and the value of the leisure cognitive activities like proxies of the cognitive reservation. Also, the results related with the importance of the early intervention are analyzed in the prevention of the cognitive deterioration in these patients. Conclusions: The theory of the cognitive reservation can be of great utility for the practice of the neuropsychological evaluation and intervention in the patients with multiple sclerosis; in this sense, the cognitive reservation can act as a modulator factor (risk or protective) of the cognitive decline and marker of cerebral efficiency in this type of patient.

Keywords : Multiple sclerosis; neuroplasticity; cognitive rehabilitation; cerebral reserve; cognitive reserve.

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