Our earlier work suggests that, executive functions and social cognition show protracted development into late adolescence and early adulthood (Taylor et al., 2013). However, it remains unknown whether these functions develop linearly or non-linearly corresponding to dynamic changes to white matter density at these age ranges. Executive functions are particularly in demand during the transition...

neuropsychological approach tries to link behavior with brain functions. one of the structural changes and functional disorders that is, post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd). this impaired memory function, learning, emotional processing and cognitive and structural changes in the brain. various aspects of neuropsychological function have been reported to be abnormal in (ptsd); however, the maj...

A better understanding of the functioning of the brain, particularly executive functions, of the prison population could aid in reducing crime rates through the reduction of recidivism rates. Indeed, reoffending appears to be related to executive dysfunction and it is known that executive functions are crucial for self-regulation. In the current paper, studies to executive functions in regular ...

Depression is one of the most common mental disorder that could negatively affects individuals’ feeling, cognition and behaviour. From cognitive modal depression, people who have a biased thinking mode tend to produce negative feeling about self, world, their future (Beck, Aaron T, 2008). Compared normality, ‘abnormal’ different way interpreting things. This results from abnormal brain function...

Gist reasoning (abstracting meaning from complex information) was compared between adults with moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI, n = 30) at least one year post injury and healthy adults (n = 40). The study also examined the contribution of executive functions (working memory, inhibition, and switching) and memory (immediate recall and memory for facts) to gist reasoning. The corre...

Autobiographical memory (AM) comprises representation of both specific (episodic) and generic (semantic) personal information. Depression is characterized by a shift from episodic to semantic AM retrieval. According to theoretical models, this process ("overgeneralization"), would be linked to reduced executive resources. Moreover, "overgeneral" memories, accompanied by a negativity bias in dep...