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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
Volume 39, Issue 4, Pages 336-346Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/13803395.2016.1226269
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Decision-making; Delay discounting; Memory; Mild cognitive impairment; Temporal preferences
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- Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia [JPND-HC/0003/2012]
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [JPND-HC/0003/2012] Funding Source: FCT
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Introduction: Patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) may make suboptimal decisions particularly in complex situations, and this could be due to temporal discounting, the tendency to prefer immediate rewards over delayed but larger rewards. The present study proposes to evaluate intertemporal preferences in MCI patients as compared to healthy controls. Method: Fifty-five patients with MCI and 57 healthy controls underwent neuropsychological evaluation and a delay discounting questionnaire, which evaluates three parameters: hyperbolic discounting (k), the percentage of choices for delayed and later rewards (%LL), and response consistency (Acc). Results: No significant differences were found in the delay discounting questionnaire between MCI patients and controls for the three reward sizes considered, small, medium, and large, using both k and %LL parameters. There were also no differences in the response consistency, Acc, between the two groups. Conclusions: Patients with MCI perform similarly to healthy controls in a delay discounting task. Memory deficits do not notably affect intertemporal preferences.
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