New Therapeutical Alternatives and Outcome in Mild Cognitive Impairment
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چکیده
Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is an etiological heterogeneous condition characterized by cognitive decline greater than expected for an individual's age and education level but that does not interfere notably with activities of daily life, subjects perform more poorly on a variety of cognitive, functional and behavioral measures than normal person of the same age, but the cognitive decline is not enough severe to characterize dementia (1).
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