The impact of apathy on cognitive performance in the elderly

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dc.contributor.authorMontoya Murillo, Genoveva
dc.contributor.authorIbarretxe Bilbao, Naroa
dc.contributor.authorPeña Lasa, Javier
dc.contributor.authorOjeda del Pozo, Natalia
dc.date.accessioned2025-11-10T19:01:42Z
dc.date.available2025-11-10T19:01:42Z
dc.date.issued2019-05-01
dc.date.updated2025-11-10T19:01:42Z
dc.description.abstractObjectives: To examine the impact of apathy on cognitive performance in the elderly following the conceptual principles proposed by Marin 1 and Stuss et al 2 and to determine the role of the symptoms of apathy in different cognitive domains. Methods: Cross-sectional study with a cohort of healthy elderly subjects over 55 years old (n = 140). One hundred forty healthy-elderly subjects (aged 79.24 ± 8.6 years old) were recruited from 12 day centers in Northern Spain. Participants underwent a neuropsychological battery, which evaluated Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE), attention, processing speed, verbal fluency, visual and verbal memory, working memory, and executive functioning. Apathy was assessed by the Lille Apathy Rating Scale (LARS), which is composed of four factors: intellectual curiosity, emotion, action initiation, and self-awareness. Correlation and linear regression analyses were performed. Results: In the correlational analysis, the LARS total score correlated negatively with global cognition, verbal fluency, and visual and verbal memory. The intellectual curiosity factor correlated negatively with all cognitive domains except attention. The emotion factor correlated negatively with visual memory. No correlation was found between the action initiation and self-awareness factors or any of the cognitive variables. Multiple stepwise regression analysis showed that symptoms of apathy explained cognitive performance in attention, processing speed, verbal fluency, visual and verbal memory, working memory, executive functioning, and MMSE. Conclusions: Apathy was significantly associated with cognitive performance, especially with the intellectual curiosity factor. Our results suggest that specific symptoms of apathy contribute differently to individual cognitive domains.en
dc.description.sponsorshipUniversity of Deusto, Grant/Award Number:Collaborative predoctoral grant; EducationDepartment of the Basque Government(Equipo A), Grant/Award Number: (IT946‐16)en
dc.identifier.citationMontoya-Murillo, G., Ibarretxe-Bilbao, N., Peña, J., & Ojeda, N. (2019). The impact of apathy on cognitive performance in the elderly. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 34(5), 657-665. https://doi.org/10.1002/GPS.5062
dc.identifier.doi10.1002/GPS.5062
dc.identifier.eissn1099-1166
dc.identifier.issn0885-6230
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14454/4343
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherJohn Wiley and Sons Ltd
dc.rights© 2019 The Authors
dc.subject.otherApathy
dc.subject.otherCognition
dc.subject.otherCognitive performance
dc.subject.otherElderly
dc.subject.otherMotivation
dc.subject.otherNeuropsychology
dc.titleThe impact of apathy on cognitive performance in the elderlyen
dc.typejournal article
dcterms.accessRightsopen access
oaire.citation.endPage665
oaire.citation.issue5
oaire.citation.startPage657
oaire.citation.titleInternational Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
oaire.citation.volume34
oaire.licenseConditionhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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