Dehydration is one of the ten most frequent diagnoses responsible for the hospital admission of elderly in the United States. It is associated with increased mortality, morbidity and an estimated cost of 1.14 billion per year (Xiao et al., 2004; Schlanger et al., 2010; Pretorius et al., 2013; Frangeskou et al., 2015). Older individuals are predisposed to dehydration encephalopathy as a result o...

What is the relation between spatial language and spatial cognition? Is the way we talk about space based on our non-linguistic spatial representations? Presently, there are at least two major hypotheses about the nature of this relation. On the one hand, there is a cognitive hypothesis. According to this hypothesis, spatial language is grounded on spatial cognition. Our non-linguistic spatial ...

Citation: Soberano EK and Kelty-Stephen DG (2015) Demystifying cognitive science: explaining cognition through network-based modeling. Network science has made what once seemed miracle into practical science: we can set up conditions for self-building systems, and we can use their patterns of variability to identify and explain processes underlying prospective control in biological systems. Beh...

BACKGROUND Social cognition has been implicated in the relationship between cognition and social functioning. AIMS To test the hypothesis that social cognition mediates the relationship between cognitive and social functioning. METHOD This was a 1-year longitudinal cohort study comparing three groups: 50 people with first-episode psychosis, 53 people with multi-episode schizophrenia and 55 ...

This is a survey paper which discusses the impact of large cardinals on provability of the Continuum Hypothesis (CH). It was Gödel who first suggested that perhaps “strong axioms of infinity” (large cardinals) could decide interesting set-theoretical statements independent over ZFC, such as CH. This hope proved largely unfounded for CH – one can show that virtually all large cardinals defined s...

This study explores the relationship between out-of-home behavior and daily mood of community-dwelling older adults with different levels of cognitive impairment across four consecutive weeks. The sample included 16 persons with early stage Alzheimer's disease (AD), 30 persons with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and 95 cognitively healthy persons (CH). Using a multi-method approach, GPS track...

Please cite this article in press as: Seyfart j.anbehav.2015.01.030 The social intelligence hypothesis argues that competition and cooperation among individuals have shaped the evolution of cognition in animals. What do we mean by social cognition? Here we suggest that the building blocks of social cognition are a suite of skills, ordered roughly according to the cognitive demands they place up...

Assuming the continuum hypothesis there is an inseparable sequence of length ω1 that contains no Lusin subsequence, while if Martin’s Axiom and ¬CH is assumed then every inseparable sequence (of length ω1) is a union of countably many Lusin subsequences. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification . 03E05 (Combinatorial set theory), 03E50 (Continuum hypothesis and Martin’s axiom), 03E35 ( Consisten...

BACKGROUND The peripheral and central chemoreflexes are important autonomic mechanisms for regulating breathing and cardiovascular function. Although pathological inflammatory infiltration of the peripheral chemoreceptors and central nervous system has been reported in Chagas' disease, functional evaluation of chemoreflexes has not yet been performed. METHODS AND RESULTS The hypothesis that c...

BACKGROUND Some patients with otherwise typical cluster headache (CH) have persistent attacks free of cranial autonomic symptoms (CAS). The factors responsible for this atypical presentation are not known. OBJECTIVES To identify factors associated to the absence of CAS in patients with CH. METHODS A prospective series of 157 patients with the diagnosis of CH was analyzed, comparing 148 typi...