ANALOGICAL REASONING IN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS

Objective
 Cognitive impairment is common in multiple sclerosis
 (MS) and occurs at all stages of the disease with
 a significant negative effect on daily life activities,
 vocation, social relationships quality life.
 Analogical reasoning involves identifying common
 relational system between two situations then
 generating further inferences driven by these shared
 commonalities that fundamental aspect human
 cognition people routinely use everyday life, a
 wide range problem-solving contexts decision
 making. The aim study to evaluate analogical
 skills individuals with MS.
 Material Method
 This observational case-control covers 30
 MS patients without any cognitive complaint and
 30 age-, sex- education-matched healthy
 person. All participants were underwent thorough
 neuropsychological evaluation emphasis on
 working memory, attention, executive functions concept formation analogical reasoning.
 Results
 patients’ performance memory,
 attention worse in
 comparison control group. In general no
 difference was observed regarding formation,
 abstraction, flexibility healthy controls.
 However advanced age exhibited poor tasks which also showed moderate correlation duration.
 Conclusion
 dysfunction can be detected even MS
 who are relatively young have low
 disability, complaints. Although
 early reserves sufficient for performance
 similar controls, they show deterioration advancing age.