Therapy-induced cognitive impairment is prevalent and long-lasting in cancer survivors, but factors affecting post-therapy cognitive recovery are unclear. We conducted this study to evaluate the associations of age, body mass index (BMI), waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), and physical activity (PA) with post-therapy cognitive changes in a population-based breast cancer (BC) survivor cohort. We collecte...

A total of 1,760 females and males were assessed for cognitive social comparison processes regarding physical appearance. Participants ranged in age from middle school (7th and 8th graders) to college juniors and seniors. Multidimensional scaling techniques were used as the analytical strategy. The results revealed the existence of two primary comparison dimensions: weight/non-weight and muscle...

Multistep cognitive behavioral therapy for obesity (CBT-OB) is a treatment that may be delivered at three levels of care (outpatient, day hospital, and residential). In a stepped-care approach, CBT-OB associates the traditional procedures of weight-loss lifestyle modification, ie, physical activity and dietary recommendations, with specific cognitive behavioral strategies that have been indicat...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this work was to examine the relations among neuromaturation, mother-infant relationship, and cognitive development in small-for-gestational-age premature infants and to assess the interactive effects of birth weight and intrauterine growth restriction on developmental outcomes. METHODS We studied 120 singleton premature infants (birth weight: 530-1790 g; gestational ...

The objective of this study is to investigate the effects an intervention based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), compared Psychoeducation Cognitive Behavioral (CBT) (weight body mass index [BMI]) self-reported measures (binge eating psychological flexibility) in overweight or obese people. It’s a mixed 2x3 factorial design: Intervention (ACT x Psychoeducation/CBT) Time (before, after...

BACKGROUND Weight regain is a common problem following weight loss intervention, with most people who seek treatment for obesity able to lose weight, but few able to sustain the changes in behavior required to prevent subsequent weight regain. The identification of factors that predict which patients will successfully maintain weight loss or who are at risk of weight regain after weight loss in...

the current research aimed to evaluate effectiveness of cognitive behavioural treatment on enhancing mental health of pregnant women and their infants gaining weight. in a quasi-experimental study, participants were randomly assigned to the experimental (64 persons) or control (78 persons) groups . the experimental group received an 8 session of cognitive behavior intervention. for all of the p...

Objective Cognitive impairment is associated with reductions in brain weight and volume. The factors related to morphometric brain changes in cognitively normal aging remain unknown. We aimed to identify which clinical factors are associated with morphometric brain changes in cognitively normal aging. Methods A cross-sectional study of 414 subjects, ≥50 years old submitted to clinical assessm...

BACKGROUND Weight loss is common in people with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and it could be a marker of impending AD in Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and improve prognostic accuracy, if accelerated progression to AD would be shown. AIMS To assess weight loss as a predictor of dementia and AD in MCI. METHODS One hundred twenty-five subjects with MCI (age 73.8 ± 7.1 years) were followed for an...

OBJECTIVE Huntington disease (HD) is a hereditary neurodegenerative disorder caused by an expanded number of CAG repeats in the huntingtin gene. A hallmark of HD is unintended weight loss, the cause of which is unknown. In order to elucidate the underlying mechanisms of weight loss in HD, we studied its relation to other disease characteristics including motor, cognitive, and behavioral disturb...