Impairments of face recognition after acquired brain injury (ABI) are not restricted to prosopagnosia but commonly arise in association with other cognitive deficits and can be psychosocially debilitating. Despite this, the prevalence and cognitive concomitants of such impairments after ABI have not been systematically investigated. We tested 91 adults with ABI on a range of cognitive measures ...

A body of neuropsychological research revealed cognitive impairments in patients suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Only few investigations addressed the question of how specific these impairments are. The present study compared the performances of 19 subjects with OCD to 19 subjects with schizophrenia and 19 healthy controls on neuropsychological tasks across the main cognitiv...

ICUs have raised survival rates, but they have highlighted the need to reduce the morbidity of ICU patients and improve their short-and long-term functional outcomes. Frequently these patients, especially with acute respiratory distress syndrome, present neuro-cognitive impairments [1] that extend beyond their acute phase and hospital stay and lead to signifi cant defi cits in quality of life [...

BACKGROUND While neuropathological studies indicate a high risk for Alzheimer's disease in adults with Down's syndrome, neuropsychological studies suggest a lower prevalence of dementia. In this study, cognitive deterioration in adults with Down's syndrome was examined prospectively over 4 years to establish rates and profiles of cognitive deterioration. METHODS Fifty-seven people with Down's...

Patients suffering from chronic tinnitus were analyzed to examine whether tinnitus impairments can be predicted by demographic and socioeconomic factors. For this purpose, subjective tinnitus complaints were measured in 153 patients using the tinnitus impairment questionnaire (THI-12) that distinguishes between emotional-cognitive and functional-communicative factors. Age, gender, marital statu...

Citation: Labra-Spröhnle F (2016) Restoring the integrative value to the notion of executive function. Commentary on: “Advancing understanding of executive function impairments and psychopathology: bridging the gap between clinical and cognitive approaches”. Front. Psychol. 6:2040. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.02040 Restoring the integrative value to the notion of executive function. Commentary on: ...

m e t h o d s : This review discusses the pharmacologic activity and poten­ tial effectiveness of lithium in the context of Alzheimer disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD), the 2 most prominent neurodegenerative dis­ orders in the United States. The toxicides of lithium, including lithiuminduced extrapyramidal symptoms (LL-EPS) and cognitive impairments at therapeutic blood levels, are disc...

BACKGROUND/AIMS It has been shown that cognitive training might help to protect against age-related cognitive decline. Our aim was to evaluate the efficacy of a computerized cognitive training application and its near transfer effects on the cognitive status of older adults. METHODS Performance on the 7-Minute Screen at baseline and at the end of the program was analyzed by using a pre-post d...

Sir, We read with interest the article by Delplanque et al. (2014) entitled: ‘TMEM240 mutations cause spinocerebellar ataxia type 21 with mental retardation and severe cognitive impairment’. The striking feature of the clinical presentation was not only the cerebellar ataxia and cerebellar volume loss on imaging, but also the cognitive and neurobehavioural impairments that were pervasive, and— ...