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The interrelationships between sensory, motor, and cognitive functions become stronger with increasing age (Schäfer et al., 2006), and balance and executive functions are inter-connected during standing tasks (Redfern et al., 2009; Taylor et al., 2017). 41, 49–100. All participants gave written informed consent prior to data collection. J. Neuropsychology 11, 428–436. In this measure, there are three types of cards in the deck. Lord, S. R., and Fitzpatrick, R. C. (2001). doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbt097, Sturnieks, D. L., Arnold, R., and Lord, S. R. (2011). A Biol. Gait Posture 33, 233–237. Different aspects of visual impairment as risk factors for falls and fractures in older men and women. Psychol. Participant characteristics are displayed in Table 1. *Correspondence: Daniel Schoene, daniel.schoene@fau.de, Front. Falls in Older People: Risk Factors and Strategies for Prevention. J. Clin. [32] This increase in blood flow is potentially related to the evidence that atrophy heightens blood flow and metabolism, which is measured as the BOLD response, or blood-oxygen-level dependence, with fMRI. A synthesized research definition of cognitive flexibility is a switch in thinking, whether that is specifically based on a switch in rules or broadly based on a need to switch one's previous beliefs or thoughts to new situations. Rehabil. 11:133. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2019.00133. Cognitive flexibility has been more broadly described as the ability to adjust one's thinking from old situations to new situations as well as the ability to overcome responses or thinking that have become habitual and adapt to new situations. (2003). What does 10 L I mean? J Gerontol. Am. 14:107. doi: 10.1186/1471-2318-14-107, Sherrington, C., Michaleff, Z. Workplace flexibility emphasizes the willingness and ability to adapt to change, particularly regarding how and when work gets done. Researchers in the field advocate a teaching style that incorporates group problem-solving activities and demands higher-level thought. Impaired response selection during stepping predicts falls in older people-a cohort study. The role of executive function and attention in gait. 55, M10–M16. (2013). the quality of being easily adapted or of offering many different options: This blogging platform is becoming more and more popular because of its flexibility, power, and simplicity. Shumway-Cook, A., and Woollacott, M. (2000). (2013). Age differences in concept formation. However, cognitive flexibility refers to the ability to adapt to a change, while mental shifting is the process that makes it possible to adapt to the change. Gait Posture 14, 203–210. Our findings suggest the incorporation of implicit learning tasks in interventions for older people may be beneficial to improve balance and reduce fall risk. Table 1. [37] While further research is needed to determine the efficacy of CFH as an instructional tool, classrooms where cognitive flexibility theory is applied in this manner are hypothesized to result in students more capable of transferring knowledge across domains. [30] One can also consider people with addictions to be limited in cognitive flexibility, in that they are unable to flexibly respond to stimuli previously associated with the drug. After six practice trials (one stimulus for each target panel with two stimuli to be withheld), a random sequence of 36 trials was presented. Sports Med. Here, it is defined as a construct composed of multiple cognitive processes that work together to adjust the course of thoughts or actions according to the changing demands of a situation without the use of explicit instructions (Berg, 1948). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040588, Lamb, S. E., Jorstad-Stein, E. C., Hauer, K., and Becker, C. (2005). It has been previously reported that older people are susceptible to falls if they perform poorly in inhibition tasks (Anstey et al., 2009; Mirelman et al., 2012; Schoene et al., 2017). Potential effect modification by WCST performance was determined using interaction terms. 64, 569–576. doi: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e3181e89905, Delbaere, K., Smith, S. T., and Lord, S. R. (2011). PLoS One 8:e63885. 8, 221–226. Attention influences sensory integration for postural control in older adults. Resistance training and functional plasticity of the aging brain: a 12-month randomized controlled trial. Risacher et al. Well after sleep physically your body and muscles are less fatigued due to rest and the minute repairs the body makes overnight while in a calm state. Comparing upper and lower balance group tertiles, there was also a trend indicating the poor balance group gave fewer correct conceptual responses compared to the good balance group [44.7 vs. 47.3%, respectively, F(1,136) = 3.581, p = 0.05]. doi: 10.1080/13854040701218436, Barkley, R. A. Age Ageing 35(Suppl. Sci. The participants are then given a pile of additional cards and are asked to match each one to one of the previous cards. 58, 595–602. doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2011.01.012, Schoene, D., Valenzuela, T., Lord, S. R., and De Bruin, E. D. (2014). For example, when individuals are better able to shift their thinking from situation to situation they will focus less on stressors within these situations.[15]. Using the good balance group as the reference, the fall rate for both, the fair and poor balance groups increased [IRR 1.91 (1.14–3.22), p = 0.015 and IRR 2.80 (1.68–4.65), p < 0.001, respectively]. Lancet 381, 47–54. Med. 4, 37–44. [36] A counterexample is evident in cases where such material is presented in an oversimplified manner and learners fail to transfer their knowledge to a new domain. Mental flexibility was assessed using the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST). Balance performance was assessed by measuring postural sway while standing on a medium density foam mat with eyes open for 30 s. Mental flexibility was assessed using a computerized short-form of the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST; 64 cards) with its sub-components comprising general performance, perseveration, failure-to-maintain set and conceptual ability. We used this score as a measure of inhibition and to determine if measures of WCST measure a different component of executive functioning. For example, those with obsessive–compulsive disorder experience difficulty shifting their attentional focus as well as inhibiting motor responses. Unadjusted (ANOVA) and adjusted (ANCOVA) analyses for the association between postural sway and balance tertiles. [16] However, cognitive flexibility has been shown to be a broad concept that can be studied with all different ages and situations. A review of sensorimotor–cognitive interdependencies in old age. 83, 237–252. Lord, S. R., and Ward, J. Depressive symptoms were measured using the nine-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) (Kroenke et al., 2001). [12] Similarly, in order to be cognitively flexible they must overcome centration, which is the tendency for young children to solely focus on one aspect of an object or situation. These cognitive flexibility hypertexts (CFH) provide a "three-dimensional" and "open-ended" representation of material for learners, enabling them to incorporate new information and form connections with preexisting knowledge. doi: 10.1002/mds.21720, Keywords: accidental falls, aged, balance, cognition, executive functions, mental flexibility, Citation: Pieruccini-Faria F, Lord SR, Toson B, Kemmler W and Schoene D (2019) Mental Flexibility Influences the Association Between Poor Balance and Falls in Older People – A Secondary Analysis. Aging Neurosci. What’s also important about these two qualities is that they are among the eight skills leaders will need in the future workplace, according to the article. Our findings may indicate fallers have poorer executive function in general, rather than specific mental flexibility deficits confirming results from cognitive and brain-imaging studies that demonstrate executive functions, including mental flexibility reflect some common, and distinct components (Miyake et al., 2000; Wager et al., 2005). Training interventions targeting the preservation or improvement of mental flexibility may help prevent falls in this population by improving postural stability as well as cognition. Visual contrast sensitivity in Alzheimer’s disease, mild cognitive impairment, and older adults with cognitive complaints. Age-related changes in posture control are differentially affected by postural and cognitive task complexity. Common and unique components of response inhibition revealed by fMRI. doi: 10.1016/s0887-6177(97)00075-9, Greve, K. W., Stickle, T. R., Love, J. M., Bianchini, K. J., and Stanford, M. S. (2005). J. Gerontol. Risk factors for falls in community-dwelling older people: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Eur. Activation of the dorsolateral PFC has been shown during resolution of interference of irrelevant task sets. Am. doi: 10.1006/cogp.1999.0734, Mostofsky, S. H., and Simmonds, D. J. Soc. Further, lower concept formation ability partly explained the association between balance and falls: i.e., fallers in the upper balance tertile had reduced concept formation performance whereas non-fallers had similar concept formation performance across the three balance tertiles. color of object), and be unable to focus on both aspects (i.e. J. Gen. Psychol. Visual impairment and falls in older adults: the Blue Mountains Eye Study. 16, 606–613. Acute effects of moderate aerobic exercise on specific aspects of executive function in different age and fitness groups: a meta-analysis. 42, 345–346. Juveniles with Anorexia nervosa have marked decreases in set-shifting abilities, possibly associated with incomplete maturation of prefrontal cortices associated with malnutrition. Gait Posture 14, 211–216. [18] Typically, three-year-old children are able to sort cards based on a single dimension, but are unable to switch to sort the cards based on a second dimension. Bernard-Demanze, L., Dumitrescu, M., Jimeno, P., Borel, L., and Lacour, M. (2009). doi: 10.1111/psyp.12736, Melzer, I., Benjuya, N., and Kaplanski, J. Gerontology 52, 1–16. It also allows you to see new possibilities and think outside the box. doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2017.03.010, Schoene, D., Lord, S. R., Verhoef, P., and Smith, S. T. (2011). MANCOVA revealed that WCST performance was associated with balance [Wilks’ Lambda = 0.883, F = 2.168; p = 0.013, partial eta squared (ηp2) = 0.061] due primarily to reduced concept formation ability [F(2,207) = 5.787, p = 0.004, ηp2 = 0.053]. 66, 674–680. Opt. 19, 1539–1547. BT, DS, FP-F, SL, and WK analyzed the data. This suggests that understanding an implicit rule may be a sensitive marker of impaired body sway. Neurobiol. Testing the efficiency and independence of attentional networks. Geriatr. 3, 45–54. The interacting effects of cognitive demand and recovery of postural stability in balance-impaired elderly persons. After controlling for age, contrast sensitivity, proprioception, knee extension strength, simple reaction time and ANT performance, significant differences remained [F(2,203) = 80.861, p < 0.001, ηp2 = 0.446] (Table 2), with Bonferroni post hoc tests showing linear differences between each tertile. Development of a common outcome data set for fall injury prevention trials: the Prevention of Falls Network Europe consensus. Cognitive flexibility[note 1] has been described as the mental ability to switch between thinking about two different concepts, and to think about multiple concepts simultaneously. Neuropsychol. A response switch would require different response mapping, such as circle right button and square left button and vice versa. Sci. It is important to remember however, that there are a very wide range of causes of disability: some individuals may have high physical health and healthcare needs, and others may experience a very high standard of physical health. We have also shown that slow inhibitory choice stepping reaction time (iCSRT), a test of combined inhibition and rapid step initiation, was predictive of falls in older people and that this association was not mediated by body sway, processing speed or attention (Schoene et al., 2017). A Biol. New Ideas Psychol. All participants gave written informed consent prior to data collection. The sample was split into tertiles: good balance (62 to 146 mm, N = 71), fair balance (147 to 209 mm, N = 72), and poor balance (>210 mm, N = 69). With age, children generally show increases in cognitive flexibility which is likely a product of the protracted development of the frontoparietal network evident in adults, with maturing synaptic connections, increased myelination and regional gray matter volume occurring from birth to mid-twenties. Falls were monitored prospectively over 12 months with daily falls calendars that were sent back monthly using pre-paid envelopes. Response inhibition and response selection: two sides of the same coin. 53, 1618–1622. [4] A crucial aim of education is to help students learn as well as appropriately apply and adapt what they have learned to novel situations. New York, NY: Routledge. Table 3. doi: 10.1016/s0966-6362(01)00144-8, Redfern, M. S., Jennings, J. R., Mendelson, D., and Nebes, R. D. (2009). First codified by the sage Patanjali in his Yoga Sutras around 400 C.E, the practice was in fact handed down from teacher to student long before this text arose. This may indicate compensatory processes in our relatively healthy sample without major cognitive impairments and sufficient physical function to do the tests involved in this study. Attentional demands and postural control: the effect of sensory context. Our findings may in part explain the poorer performance of balance-impaired people in motor-cognitive dual-task paradigms (Brauer et al., 2001; Plummer-D’Amato et al., 2011). J. Gerontol. [6] Thus, when an individual is better able to suppress aspects of a stimulus to focus on more important aspects (i.e. This demonstrates an increase in cognitive flexibility between the ages of seven and eleven. These children focused on the two dimensions separately, whereas at the age of eleven, children were capable of sorting cards based on these two dimensions simultaneously. Leaders who have cognitive flexibility are able to incorporate different thinking strategies and mental frameworks into their planning, decision-making, and management of day-to-day work. Sci. BMC Geriatr. Concern about falling was measured by the iconographical falls-efficacy scale (Icon-FES), a questionnaire which depicts line drawings of a person undertaking a range of simple through to more demanding activities of daily living (Delbaere et al., 2011). The Supplementary Material for this article can be found online at: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnagi.2019.00133/full#supplementary-material, Anstey, K. J., Butterworth, P., Borzycki, M., and Andrews, S. (2006). Attentional demands for postural control: the effects of aging and sensory reintegration. J. Parkinsons Dis. The mechanisms underlying cognitive flexibility have been explored extensively using various methods. (2001). The PHQ-9: validity of a brief depression severity measure. However, five-year-old children are able to sort cards based on one dimension and can then switch to sorting cards on a second dimension. Gerontology 47, 189–194. Sci. Sci. The Stroop test is used in neuropsychological evaluations to measure mental vitality and flexibility, since performing well requires strong attention and self-regulation capability. Unadjusted and adjusted models for the association between balance status and fall rates with 95% confidence intervals. doi: 10.1093/gerona/glq127, Wager, T. D., Sylvester, C. Y., Lacey, S. C., Nee, D. E., Franklin, M., and Jonides, J. Visual acuity and contrast sensitivity in relation to falls in an elderly population. Impairments of balance predispose older people to falls. [39] The researchers posit that, while video game play may be controversial due to frequently graphic content, harnessing the effect of such games could lead to similar gains in various populations (e.g. Geriatr. 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