Randomized Evaluation of Carotid Occlusion and Neurocognition (RECON) trial: Main results Patients with carotid occlusion and hemodynamic failure had cognitive function measured before and after surgical vs medical intervention. Mild cognitive impairment at baseline improved over 2 years, but improvement did not depend on treatment group. There is a growing recognition that cerebral hemodynamic...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to identify the impacts of job stress and cognitive failure on patient safety incidents among hospital nurses in Korea. METHODS The study included 279 nurses who worked for at least 6 months in five general hospitals in Korea. Data were collected with self-administered questionnaires designed to measure job stress, cognitive failure, and patient safety incidents. ...

Diagnosis is the foundation of medicine. Effective treatment cannot begin until an accurate diagnosis has been made. Diagnostic reasoning is a critical aspect of clinical performance. It is vulnerable to a variety of failings, the most prevalent arising through cognitive and affective influences. The impact of diagnostic failure on patient safety does not appear to have been fully recognized. I...

Cognitive damage in heart failure (HF) involves different domains thus interfering with the ability for single patient to self-care and to cope with treatment regimens, modifying symptoms and health behaviours. Many cerebral and functional changes were detected in brain imaging, involving areas of both grey and white matter deputed to cognition. Although various instruments are available to exp...

Self-regulatory failure is a core feature of many social and mental health problems. Self-regulation can be undermined by failures to transcend overwhelming temptations, negative moods and resource depletion, and when minor lapses in self-control snowball into self-regulatory collapse. Cognitive neuroscience research suggests that successful self-regulation is dependent on top-down control from...

Robots may encounter undesirable outcomes due to failures during the execution of their plans in the physical world. Failures should be detected, and the underlying reasons should be found by the robot in order to handle these failure situations efficiently. Sometimes, there may be more than one cause of a failure, and they are not necessarily related to the action in execution. In this paper, ...

Debugging is notoriously difficult and extremely time consuming but also essential for ensuring the reliability and quality of a software system. In order to reduce debugging effort and enable automated failure detection, we propose an automated testing framework for detecting failures in cognitive agent programs. Our approach is based on the assumption that modules within such programs are a n...

We propose a lifelong experimental learning method for cognitive robots to build and transfer knowledge among appropriate contexts. Experience gained through learning is used as a guide to future decisions of robots for both efficiency and robustness.