Table 1.

Most frequent cognitive impairments in diabetes

Type 1 diabetes	Type 2 diabetes
Slowing of information processing	Decreases in psychomotor speed [9,10]
Decrease in psychomotor efficiency	Deficits of the executive function [10-11]
Low attention	Poor verbal memory [12] and working memory [11,13]
Low mental flexibility	Low processing speed [12]
Loss of inhibition and focus (in teenagers) [14]	Decrease of complex motor functioning [10]
Impaired working memory	Delayed recall [15,16]
	Impairment of verbal fluency [10,17]
	Impairment of attention [18]
	Impairment of visual retention [19]