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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 51 Mild cognitive impairment at home and abroad Review of Progress in Research and [Abstract] writer from the concept of evolution, pathogenesis, clinical features, epidemiology, disease diagnosis and identification and intervention in the prevention and control of aspects of Western medicine, for the elderly with mild cognitive impairment (mild cognitive impairment, MCI) in 1996 by Petersen officially named the American scholar, more than 10 years of basic and clinical research in general and the progress in a more comprehensive and systematic introduction and Commentary, and on the problems and development direction are analyzed and discussed. [Keywords:] with mild cognitive impairment; Alzheimer’s disease; Research; Review The elderly with mild cognitive impairment (mild cognitive impairment, MCI) in 1996 by well-known American psychiatrist Petersen officially named, is now recognized as a ‘pre-dementia state’. At present, many scholars believe, MCI on behalf of Alzheimer’s disease (Alzheimer’s disease, AD) in the very early stage, memory impairment for the most basic and most important features. Because AD is irreversible, so the elderly MCI patients treated early intervention is particularly important [1-2]. Following the recent MCI study are reviewed. 1 MCI concept The past, many scholars have put forward for a variety of cognitive impairment terms and concepts [3], such as benign senescent forgetfulness (BSF), age-related memory impairment (AAMI), age-related cognitive decline (AACD), mild cognitive decline, mild neurocognitive decline, non-dementia cognitive impairment (CIND), suspected dementia. These concepts are too broad or include an object or can not be accurately summed up its characteristics, and the majority of the lack of interoperability, is now less. Nowadays generally agreed that MCI represents the epidemiological investigation of dementia and normal cognition and dementia, in addition to a meaning outside the wid