“Cognitive training” (CT) is a label used to describe paper-and-pen or computerized exercises designed engage desired set of mental skills for the purpose enhancing neurocognitive functioning. Although literature on topic considerably rich (on PubMed, sole 2018, use “cognitive as title keyword returns 123 results), very few studies pose fundamental question: “How does CT work?”, or, more precis...

Distinct psychological processes have been proposed to unfold in decision-making. The time course of neural mechanisms supporting these processes has not been fully identified. The present MEG study examined spatio-temporal activity related to components of decision-making proposed to support reward valuation, reward prediction, and outcome evaluation. Each trial presented information on reward...

purpose the aim of this study was to determine the effect of one night's sleep deprivation on anaerobic performance and reaction time of subjects in the morning of the following day. methods eighteen male college student athletes were studied twice in a balanced, randomized design. subjects were measured for peak power, mean power and reaction time. results the performance showed no significant...

this article describes and explains some theoretical challenges to political ideologies and seeks to offer some proper responses to these challenges. in this regard, the following ideas are concentrated: 1) the political ideologies have their own subjective and objective motives and their own cognitive basics. the more these motives and basics change the more the political ideologies modifies. ...

Background: The present study aimed to investigate the mediating role of cognitive emotion regulation strategies on the relationship between mindfulness, anxiety, and procrastination in high school students. Methods: The study sample consisted of 350 high school female students in Rasht City, Iran. The study subjects responded to the Academic Procrastination Scale (APS), the Cognitive Emotion ...

One of the most common postoperative complications is Postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD), and it’s usually a geriatric’s disease. Although many studies have done, the exact molecular mechanisms of POCD is still largely unknown; nevertheless, neuroinflammation has been increasingly denoted as one of the core mechanisms for the pathogenesis of POCD. As a hypothesize, surgery-i...