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not explored in conventional we have incorporated into the
evaluations that may be of interest Vallecas Project as of the evaluation
as early markers. Our preliminary visit 6. The same was also done
results show a high correlation with the inventory of cognitive
between performance in the symptoms (MFE-11).
attentional blink task and classical
cognitive parameters. It is pending The relationship between cognitive
to investigate whether differences reserve and socioeconomic status with
at the fMRI level exist. the onset of cognitive impairment. The
cognitive reserve is a theoretical cons-
• Given that the experience in truct that formulated several decades
applying the State-Trait Anxiety ago to explain the lack of correspon-
Inventory (STAI) test during the dence between the degree of brain
Vallecas Project baseline visit raised damage and clinical symptoms some-
serious doubts about its suitability times observed among patients. It is
for our reference population, a presumed as an individual capacity
psychometric study was carried out that develops throughout the life cycle
and published to reduce test items fundamentally through formal educa-
and categories of response. As a tion, the type of professional activity
result, a much more useful reduced performed, and the intellectual activity
scale was obtained, but just as developed. Numerous studies have
precise as the original one, which supported the protective role played
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