BACKGROUND The course of cognitive aging has demonstrated substantial heterogeneity. This study attempted to identify distinctive cognitive trajectories and examine their relationship with burdens of disability, hospitalization, and nursing home admission. METHODS Seven hundred and fifty-four community-living persons aged 70 years or older in the Yale Precipitating Events Project were assesse...

BACKGROUND the numbers with dementia are projected to double between 2001 and 2040, in line with continued increases in life expectancy. Projections have failed to account for the impact of changing risk factors on future numbers with dementia or disability. OBJECTIVE to estimate the size of the disabled population over the next 20 years and explore the impact of treatments that delay onset o...

What we’re talking about here is a reduction in a wide range of mental capacities, all of them highly relevant to the performance of knowledge work. Knowledge is power, but the body of research shows that too much of it makes you – well – stupid. Various researchers have investigated the detailed effects of this problem in multiple areas of cognitive performance, and I highlight their main resu...

This paper considers the range of possible policy options that are available if we wish to attempt to treat people with cognitive disabilities as equal members of society. It is suggested that the goal of policy should be allow each disabled person to establish a worthwhile place in the world and sets out four policy options: cash compensation, personal enhancement, status enhancement and targe...

In this paper the authors propose a methodology for assessing the mental models individuals with cognitive disabilities use to perform simple to complex tasks. Fuzzy cognitive maps are sued as the modeling technique for capturing the attributes and the relationships that such individuals use in framing a problem, strategizing about alternate ways to solve it and implementing the solution chosen...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The goals of the present study were to estimate the prevalence of acute impairments and disability in a multiethnic population of first-ever stroke and to identify differences in impairment and early disability between pathological and Bamford subtypes. Associations between impairments and death and disability at 3 months were identified. METHODS Impairments that occur ...

The study assessed the auditory processing abilities and the cognitive skills in children with specific learning disability. It investigates the top-down or bottom-up influence on auditory processing. Using a test battery approach, the association between cognitive skills (verbal working memory and attention) and auditory processing abilities (auditory closure, binaural integration and temporal...

Headache is one of the most common neurological disorders in developmental age. Several studies investigated the relationship between headache and emotional/behavioral problems. We studied non-verbal cognitive abilities, including non-verbal memory and attention skills, in order to evaluate the impact of primary headache on these domains. The latest version of the cognitive battery Leiter Inter...