background: because of well-established role of obesity in brain lesions, progressing cognitive deficits in obese patients has been recently suggested. in current study and for the first time, we aimed to assess cognition status in iranian obese people and to compare it with non-obese individuals. methods: one hundred and eighteen consecutive patients with the different cardiovascular and metab...

the wisconsin test card sorting test (wcst) is a neuropsychological test that has been suggested as a more specific test for frontal lobes dysfunctions. this study was designed to determine whether wcst is able to differentiate between iranian psychiatric patients with cognitive disorders and normal subjects, and whether wcst scores are related to severity of symptoms in depressive and schizoph...

objective: recent studies have emphasized the important role of cognitive beliefs in etiology and ‎maintenance of obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd). ocd has different subtypes, but the ‎specific role of cognitive beliefs in ocd symptomatology is not clear. the aim of the current ‎study was to determine whether the cognitive factors proposed by obsessive compulsive ‎cognitions working group (o...

introduction: coping responses are complex dynamic behavioral reactions that involve reciprocal influences between emotion and cognition but cognitive studies in iran have less emphasized coping responses of methamphetamine dependent individuals to distressing situations. to address this aim, the current study was designed to investigate the coping responses of a group of methamphetamine depend...

because of on-call responsibilities, many medical residents are subjected to chronic partial sleep deprivation, a form of sleep restriction whereby individuals have chronic patterns of insufficient sleep. it is unclear whether deterioration in cognitive processing skills due to chronic partial sleep deprivation among medical residents would influence educational exposure or patient safety.twent...

It is well-acknowledge that a cognition process can be treated as a sequence of problem-solving procedures based on the information flow of dynamical knowledge transferring and propagation between participants and the collaborative environment. The issue of learning during collaboration process has long been a central topic of AI research from its earliest days and remains as a vital characteri...

Ageing is associated with declines in cognitive function and mobility. The extent to which this relationship encompasses the subdomains of cognition and mobility remains unclear, however. We searched MEDLINE and EMBASE databases for cross-sectional studies examining the association between objective mobility measures (gait, lower-extremity function, balance) and cognitive function (global, exec...

OBJECTIVE Previous meta-analyses indicate that computerized cognitive training (CCT) is a safe and efficacious intervention for cognition in older adults. However, efficacy varies across populations and cognitive domains, and little is known about the efficacy of CCT in people with mild cognitive impairment or dementia. METHOD The authors searched Medline, Embase, PsychINFO, CINAHL, and CENTR...