Cognitive Reserve Index Questionnaire

The Cognitive Reserve Index questionnaire (CRIq) aims to collect and estimate the amount of cognitive reserve acquired during a person's lifetime. In a single index (CRI), the questionnarie conveys three main sources of cognitive reserve: edudcation, working activity, and leisure time activities.

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Cognitive Reserve

"The term Cognitive Reserve refers to the adaptability (i.e., efficiency, capacity, flexibility) of cognitive processes that helps to explain differential susceptibility of cognitive abilities or day-to-day function to brain aging, pathology, or insult" (Stern et al, 2018, p. 1306)

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Research

Mondini, S., Pucci, V., Pastore, M., Gaggi, O., Tricomi, P. P., & Nucci, M. (2023). s-CRIq: the online short version of the Cognitive Reserve Index Questionnaire. Aging clinical and experimental research, 1-8.

Nucci, M., Mapelli, D., & Mondini, S. (2012). The cognitive Reserve Questionnaire (CRIq): a new instrument for measuring the cognitive reserve. Aging clinical and experimental research, 24, 218-126.