Cognitive failures at work (or errors in the workplace including blunders and memory lapses), can lead to considerable personal and organisational damage, even damage well beyond national borders in some organisations. Workplace errors may have a personality base; and mindfulness (or mindlessness) also appears to be related to workplace errors generally. Given the importance and cost of errors ...

OBJECTIVE To explore the relationship between regional cerebral blood flow (CBF) and cognitive function in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). METHOD Single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) was performed for 139 OCD patients and 139 controls, and the radioactivity rate (RAR) was calculated. Cognitive function was assessed by the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST). RESULTS The RA...

The proneness of human to errors is a proven fact. There have been numerous studies conducted in order to find out the cause of human slip errors so that by avoiding such errors humans could avoid catastrophes. The outcomes of these studies have been interesting as some researchers blame physical factors more than cognitive factors and vice versa. From the existing studies we can accomplish tha...

Navigating a new route during automobile driving uses the driver's cognitive resources and has the potential to impair driving ability in people with Parkinson's disease (PD). Our aim was to assess navigation and safety errors during a route following task (RFT) in drivers with the illness. Seventy-seven subjects with mild-moderate PD (median Hoehn-Yahr stage = 2.0) and 152 neurologically norma...

medication error (me) is the most common preventable cause of adverse drug events which negatively affects patient safety. inadequate, low-quality studies plus wide estimation variations in me from developing countries including iran, decreases the reliability of me evaluations. to clarify sources, underreporting reasons and preventive measures of mes, we reviewed iran current available literat...

In the area of patient safety, recent attention has focused on diagnostic error. The reduction of diagnostic error is an important goal because of its associated morbidity and potential preventability. A critical subset of diagnostic errors arises through cognitive errors, especially those associated with failures in perception, failed heuristics, and biases; collectively, these have been refer...

ABSTRACT Previous research employing short-term practice and long-term training have been successful in reducing cognitive control deficits in the elderly. The goal of this study was to examine the effect of practice within session on a demanding cognitive control task. Nineteen older adults and 16 young adults performed 720 trials of a cued version of the Stroop task, in which an instructional...

Deficits in bimanual coordination of older adults have been demonstrated to significantly limit their functioning in daily life. As a bimanual sensorimotor task, instrument playing has great potential for motor and cognitive training in advanced age. While the process of matching a person's repetitive movements to auditory rhythmic cueing during instrument playing was documented to involve moto...