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Showing 1 to 20 of 515 for “"Cognitive impairment"”.
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Cognitive impairment in medical inpatients
… is susceptible to multimorbidity, disability and cognitive impairment. Managing these issues will be essential in order to obtain a sustainable healthcare system in the near future. Aim: To determine if increased acknowledgement of cognitive impairment could improve healthcare for elderly persons …
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Detecting cognitive impairment from spoken language
… disability. The standard approach to evaluate cognitive conditions are neuropsychological exams, which are conducted via in-person interviews to measure memory, thinking, language, and motor skills. Work is on-going to determine biomarkers of cognitive impairment, yet one modality that has been …
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Diagnosis of Cognitive Impairment using Multiple Data Modalities
Decline in cognitive functions including memory, processing speed and executive processes, has been associated with ageing for sometime. It is understood that every human will go through this process, but some will go through it faster, and for some this process starts earlier. Differentiating …
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Home health care for persons with cognitive impairment
… such as disorders of dementia. People with neurocognitive disorders of dementia experience impaired cognition and require increasing support and care. They also experience numerous behavioral and psychiatric syndromes as these disorders progress. Their care needs are complex and multidimensional, …
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Cognitive impairment: quantification and possibilities for pharmacological treatment
Cognitive impairments are a common feature of neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders, as well as of substance-abuse disorders. The impairments seen in these disorders can be caused by disruptions to common neural substrates, and therefore pharmacological agents can be repositioned from use in …
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AI-Based Speech Assessment of Cognitive Impairment Disorders
… has shown that speech can be used to detect cognitive impairment in patients with dementia and other neurodegenerative diseases. These diseases produce cognitive deficits that lead to changes in the acoustic and linguistic content of the speech produced by the patients. In this thesis, we …
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Expressed Emotion in Families with Mild Cognitive Impairment
Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a medical diagnosis that is conceptualized as existing on a continuum between normal cognitive aging and dementia. While a growing body of research has established the impact of this condition on family members' emotional well-being, as well as the quality of …
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Social perception and neuropsychological deficits in mild cognitive impairment
… is related to a gradual and slow decline in cognitive function. This decline is seen to hasten with the onset of dementia. The risk of dementia is greater in people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). There has been limited research examining social perception in people with MCI and …
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Group External Memory Aid Treatment for Mild Cognitive Impairment
… memory deficits associated with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) make complex daily activities challenging. External memory aids (EMA) could help compensate for impairments. The study purpose was to examine the effects of group EMA treatment for individuals with MCI on functional EMA …
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Daily activities and functional abilities impacted by cognitive impairment
Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is a transitional stage between normal cognitive aging and dementia, often marked by decline of one or more cognitive domains and the preservation of daily activities. Previous research has demonstrated that Activities of Daily Living (ADL) tend to be well preserved …
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Activity-driven detection of cognitive impairment using deep learning.
… more people face health related problems such as cognitive decline. Cognitive impairment is a collective name for progressive brain syndromes which affect memory, cognition, behaviour and emotion. People suffering from cognitive impairment may lose their abilities to perform daily life activities …
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Characterization and Differences Between Possible and Probable Mild Cognitive Impairment
Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is the period of subtle cognitive decline that occurs between normal aging and clinical Alzheimer's Disease (AD). Patients' subjective memory complaints (SMCs) are essential to the diagnosis of MCI. In cases where memory complaints are not verifiable by objective …
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Visuomotor adaptation in older adults with and without cognitive impairment
… of error feedback in elderly controls and cognitively impaired individuals. A center-out visuomotor adaptation task assessed motor learning in two experimental conditions: normal and enlarged error feedback. It was hypothesized that the cognitively impaired would benefit from the enlarged …
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A Study on Multimodal AI for Mild Cognitive Impairment Detection
<p>Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is an early stage of memory loss or other cognitive ability loss in individuals who maintain the ability to independently perform most activities of daily living. It is considered a transitional stage between normal cognitive stage and more severe cognitive …
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Resilience among Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment and Informal Caregivers
… the well-being of people with dementia or mild cognitive impairment and their caregivers. The first study focused on the well-being of older persons with dementia (PwDs). I employed data from a large national sample of older adults to examine how the perceived social cohesion of neighborhoods …
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The Influence of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) on Marital Relationships
… this study was to examine the influence of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) on marital relationships. MCI refers to age-related decline in memory and other cognitive processes that do not necessarily interfere with daily activities or the maintenance of social relationships with others (Petersen …
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MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT AS A PREDICTOR OF HOSPITAL UTILIZATION AND READMISSIONS
… adults, healthcare studies have neglected mild cognitive impairment (MCI) as a potential contributor to high cost utilization. This study explored whether a) older adults classified with MCI experience increased rates of index hospitalization compared to those with normal cognition; b) those …
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Identifying Predictors of Reversion from Mild Cognitive Impairment to Normal Cognition
Studies on mild cognitive impairment (MCI) have focused on identifying predictors of progression to dementia, yet relatively few studies have examined predictors of reversion from MCI to normal cognition. This retrospective study incorporated data from the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center …
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FLUOXETINE AS A NOVEL TREATMENT TO ATTENUATE CISPLATIN-INDUCED COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT
… can result in long-term chemotherapy-related cognitive impairment (CRCI). Fluoxetine (FLX) is a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor widely used in patients with anxiety and mood disorders. Published studies report that FLX could sensitize cancer cells to chemotherapy treatment and assist in …
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Vascular contributors to cognitive impairment and dementia: insights from existing data
Cognitive impairment and dementia pose a significant and growing public health challenge, yet progress in developing effective interventions to prevent dementia or slow cognitive decline has been limited. Among potential targets, vascular risk factors have emerged as particularly promising. Given …
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