Thoma MV, et al. - Researchers assessed the effect of motivational abilities (MA) (that describe skills in relation to goal-oriented behavior) on the long-term course of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) during follow-up in 64 individuals (M_age = 73 years, 44% female) with MCI over 3 years. They noted that 50% (n=32) of the MCI participants remained stable, while 32.8% (n=21) converted to Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and 17.2% (n=11) dropped-out. According to the initial longitudinal evidence offered by this investigation, MCI cases with higher rated MA at an early stage of MCI had a lower risk of conversion to AD and had higher cognitive abilities.