objectives: this study aimed at investigating the effectiveness of mindfulness based cognitive therapy (mbct) in management of pain and functional limits of chronic pain patients. methods & materials: in this semi-experimental study, 30 volunteer female patients suffering from chronic pain attending a clinical assessment for treatment of chronic pain were recruited using the convenience samplin...

Abstract Background About 40–70% of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) develop cognitive impairment (CI) throughout their life. We aim to study the influence MS on changes. This is a case–control fifty who met revised 2017 Mc Donald Criteria and age- sex-matched healthy subjects. The Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) was used assess degree disability, Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoC...

Cognitive dysfunction affects 40-65% of multiple sclerosis (MS) patients and can occur in the early stages of the disease. This study aimed to explore cognitive functions by means of the Italian version of the minimal assessment of cognitive function in MS (MACFIMS) in relapsing-remitting MS (RRMS) patients with very mild clinical disability to identify the primarily involved cognitive function...

Abstract Disability is often defined as deviation from putative norms of physical, cognitive, or affective function. This definition normatively laden, causing people with disabilities to be thought “different” and treated pity. We address the predominant theme this issue on “Disability Identity”: defining imposing category “disability” attempting overcome it through medical intervention. The c...

objective: the present study aimed to evaluate the effect of parenting education on improvement of reading and writing disabilities in children. methods: a randomized controlled trial was done on primary school students with reading and writing disabilities and their mothers. the subjects were divided into three groups with 26 members in each group. the first group (mothers’ education group) re...

In transparent orthographies like German, isolated learning disabilities in either reading or spelling are common and occur as often as a combined reading and spelling disability. However, most issues surrounding the cognitive causes of these isolated or combined literacy difficulties are yet unresolved. Recently, working memory dysfunctions have been demonstrated to be promising in explaining ...

AIMS To investigate the effect of motor and cognitive disabilities on the survival of people on the North of England Collaborative Cerebral Palsy Survey, and compare this with other published results. METHODS The cerebral palsy cohort consists of 1960-1990 births in Northumberland, Newcastle, and North Tyneside health districts. Survival and cause of death were analysed in relation to data on...

BACKGROUND Corpus callosum (CC) is a common target for multiple sclerosis (MS) pathology. We investigated the influence of CC damage on physical disability and cognitive dysfunction using a multimodal approach. METHODS Twenty-one relapsing-remitting MS patients and 13 healthy controls underwent structural MRI and diffusion tensor of the CC (fractional anisotropy; mean diffusivity, MD; radial ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of transcranial direct current stimulation alone and in combination with cognitive behavioural management in patients with non-specific chronic low back pain. DESIGN Double blind parallel group randomised controlled trial with six months' follow-up conducted May 2011-March 2013. Participants, physiotherapists, assessors, and analyses were blinded to gro...

OBJECTIVES To examine the efficacy of an integrative cognitive training program (REHACOP) to improve cognition, clinical symptoms, and functional disability of patients with Parkinson disease (PD). METHODS Forty-two patients diagnosed with PD in Hoehn & Yahr stages 1 to 3 were randomly assigned to either the cognitive training group (REHACOP) or the control group (occupational activities) for...