Predictive Value of Sensory Dysfunction in Early Recognition and Treatment of Cognitive Dysfunction: a Review

Abstract

The initial symptoms of cognitive dysfunction disease are insidious, and most of the cognitive dysfunction diseases will be in the stage of dementia with no effective treatment when the symptoms are discovered. Therefore, it is crucial to explore simple and easy-to-check warning signals of cognitive dysfunction diseases and carry out timely and effective interventions for the prevention and treatment of cognitive dysfunction diseases. A large number of studies have shown that sensory dysfunction is of great value in the early diagnosis, assessment and treatment of cognitive dysfunction. However, at present, cognitive function screening in China mostly relies on neuropsychological tests, highly sensitive sensory indicators such as smell and hearing were not included. This paper concluded that further detecting the sensory function status of the elderly on the basis of neuropsychological testing will greatly improve the accuracy of cognitive dysfunction disease screening, clarified the value of sensory dysfunctions such as smell, hearing, vision, and taste in the early diagnosis and treatment of cognitive dysfunction diseases by the review and analysis of previous literature, in order to provide new ideas for clinical work.

Keywords

• cognitive dysfunction|sensory dysfunction|early diagnosis|early identification|early treatment