Introduction Functional cognitive disorders (FCD) denotes a complaint about memory function or, less commonly, another process, in the absence of relevant neuropathology and with evidence inconsistency between symptoms reported signs identified at assessment. Increasing numbers people FCD are being identified. Most discharged back to primary care without diagnosis or given label mild impairment...

We present the Topical Hidden Markov Model method, which infers jointly a cognitive and student model from longitudinal observations of student performance. Its cognitive diagnostic component specifies which items use which skills. Its knowledge tracing component specifies how to infer students’ knowledge of these skills from their observed performance. Unlike prior work, it uses no expert engi...

background: lifestyle-modification programs including physical activity are essential for both treatment and prevention of type 2 diabetes mellitus ( t2dm ). however, factors associated with physical activity among patients are poorly understood. this study applied social-cognitive theory (sct) for predicting determinants of physical activity among women with t2dm in iran, 2013. methods: in thi...

objective: the present study aimed to compare the effectiveness of metacognitive therapy (mct) and cognitive-behavior therapy (cbt) in treating iranian patients with major depressive disorder (mdd). methods: thirty three outpatients meeting dsm-iv-tr criteria for mdd without any other axis i and ii disorders were randomly assigned to one of three treatment conditions, i.e. mct, cbt and pharmaco...

In this contribution we present a Learner Model (LM) of Historical Text Comprehension (HTC), which infers the cognitive profile of learner’s global comprehension concerning the recognition or not of the three fundamental cognitive categories: action, state and event. Moreover the LM infers the profile descriptor, which displays the learner’s learning difficulties. The diagnostic module of the L...