To successfully negotiate and interact with one's environment, optimal cognitive functioning is needed. Unfortunately, many neurological and psychiatric diseases impede certain cognitive abilities such as executive functioning or speed of processing; this can produce a poor fit between the patient and the cognitive demands of his or her environment. Such nondementia diseases include bipolar dis...

background: the nonamnesic type of mild cognitive impairment (na?mci) is predementia state with subtle decline incognitive domains except memory. although cognitive rehabilitation (cr) has been investigated in amnesic type of mci, we could not find any trial that rehabilitated na?mci exclusively. we studied the effectiveness of cr on na?mci. materials and methods: this study was a blinded, rand...

Relatively little is known about the relationship of most personality disorders to executive cognitive functioning despite their associations with frontal cortex activity. Research on genetic influence is lacking for most personality disorders, and research on genetic influences associated with executive cognitive functioning is sparse and mixed. The Florida State Twin Registry was created to c...

Cognitive functioning is critical as in our daily life a host of real-world complex decisions in high-stakes markets have to be made. The decision-making process can be vulnerable to environmental stressors. Summarizing the growing economic and epidemiologic evidence linking air pollution, cognition performance and real-world decision-making, we first illustrate key physiological and psychologi...

Cognitive deficits are increasingly acknowledged as a highly relevant clinical feature of schizophrenia, susceptible of therapeutic intervention. Considerable efforts have been devoted to identify and develop pharmacological agents that provide cognitive-enhancing benefits to patients with schizophrenia. However, results from studies are not univocal and the "real world" cognitive functioning g...

The assessment of everyday functioning has become a topic of interest in aging research. Studies have investigated the importance of assessing and understanding decline in older adults’ ability to carry out tasks of daily living and its relation to cognitive functioning. Some studies have suggested that assessment of everyday functioning may be one of the most ecologically valid ways to measure...

OBJECTIVES Social contact has been shown to be positively associated with cognitive functioning. It is unclear, however, whether all individuals can equally benefit from social contact with regard to their cognitive functioning. The goal of this study was to examine whether the beneficial effects of social contact are affected by individual differences in personality. METHOD We examined the B...