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Showing 1 to 20 of 369 for “"Neurocognitive"”.
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Neurocognitive development in children
Empirical Study 1: Early intervention for neurodevelopmental problems is dependent on early, accurate detection and identification of potential problems. However, developmental trajectories are non-linear and variable, thus, challenges exist. Issues with the sensitivity and reliability of screening …
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Neurocognitive Functioning in Severe Depression
… major depressive disorder can negatively impact neurocognitive functioning. Depression has been implicated in affecting many cognitive domains, including executive function, attention, memory, and psychomotor and processing speed. However, there has been limited examination of the relationship …
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The neurocognitive mechanisms underlying dissociative amnesia
Dissociative amnesia refers to the loss of autobiographical memory with a presumed psychological cause. This can involve memory loss for traumatic experiences, such as in PTSD. It can also involve more extensive amnesia for several years, or, in its most extreme form, a fugue state involving total …
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Treatment of HIV associated neurocognitive disorders
… changes including HIV associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND). HAND is a spectrum of cognitive impairment, which in its most severe form cause marked interference with day-to-day functioning (HIV-associated dementia). Antiretroviral therapy (ART) has substantially reduced the …
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Neurocognitive Correlates of Perfectionism: A Multidimensional Perspective
At its core, perfectionism revolves around one’s self-evaluation in the context of performance outcomes. Although perfectionism has been subject to extensive research, scant literature on its effect on cognitive functioning is available, let alone in non-clinical populations. The aim of the present …
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The genesis and development of the Groote Schuur neurocognitive screening battery : a neurocognitive screening tool for the South African context
… by developing and validating the Groote Schuur Neurocognitive Screening Battery Prototype, a theory-driven tool created in response to requests by Groote Schuur Hospital neurologists for a suitable replacement for the Mini-Mental State Examination. The design of this battery constitutes a …
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Establishing Neurocognitive Profiles of Major Depressive Disorder Subtypes
… the relationship between MDD subtypes and neurocognitive functioning. In particular, the neurocognitive impact of the treatment resistant depression (TRD), defined as MDD that is unresponsive to treatment, and psychotic depression, defined as a depressive episode with hallucinations and/or …
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Longer term neurocognitive outcomes after acquired brain injury
Most of the research on treatment approaches for acute ischemic stroke have focused on the effect of thrombolysis (IVT) and thrombectomy (EVT) on survival and functional outcomes. Little is known about the cognitive outcomes after IVT and EVT following acute ischemic stroke. The objective of this …
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Infant Heart Transplant: Perioperative Indicators of Neurocognitive Development
<p>Approximately five to eight births per 1000 in the United States are born with a congenital heart defect (Limperopoulos et al, 1999), the primary defect in 57% is hypoplastic left heart syndrome (Johnston, 1991). A fatal disease twenty years ago, survival has jumped from less than 5% to 91% of …
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The neurocognitive mechanisms of perceptual inference in autism
… psychology and brain imaging to investigate the neurocognitive mechanisms of perceptual inference in autistic individuals. Chapter 1 introduces the topic of sensory perception, its neurocomputational framework, and its role in autism. It provides an overview of the theories and models of …
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Neurocognitive risk and protective factors in addictive disorders
… magnetic resonance imaging to investigate neurocognitive similarities and differences between dependent stimulant users, their non-dependent siblings, recreational users of cocaine, and unrelated healthy control volunteers. In Chapter 2, performance on a colour-word Stroop task was impaired …
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Symptom Dimensions and Neurocognitive Functioning in Adult ADHD
… attentional complaints and exhibit symptoms, neurocognitive weaknesses, and secondary problems similar to those seen in ADHD. However, data are mixed regarding the profile of neurocognitive deficits involved in adult expressions of ADHD, and it is unknown whether patterns of weakness in …
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Analysis of Neurocognitive Elements of Attention Following Chemotherapy Treatment
Breast cancer affects approximately 123 out of 100,000 women per year in the United States, with 207,090 new cases estimated each year (Altekruse et al., 2010). Adjuvant chemotherapy has become a staple of care to improve long-term outcomes for several types of breast cancers (de Boer, Taskila, …
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Do Concussion History and Gender Influence Neurocognitive Testing Performance
… SC would show more impairment on baseline neurocognitive measures and would report greater symptom severity at baseline testing compared to athletes without a prior SC. In addition, it was hypothesized that female athletes with a previous SC at the high school level would show more …
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Advanced Music Training and Executive Function: A Neurocognitive Study
… relationship between advanced music training and neurocognitive functioning, with specific focus on executive function, working memory, and tactile interhemispheric transfer. Twenty professional musicians and a comparison group of 19 individuals with no formal music training or performance …
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Emotion Regulation Through Distancing: Developing a Novel Neurocognitive Model
… for clinical applications. However, the specific neurocognitive mechanisms of this emotion regulation tactic are poorly defined relative to the broader strategy of reappraisal. More focused investigation of these mechanisms would promote further understanding of the processes underlying distancing …
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Paradigmi ispirati da scienze neurocognitive per il Continual Learning
Emulare l'apprendimento umano è una delle componenti fondamenti della ricerca sull'intelligenza artificiale (IA). Tuttavia, nonostante i notevoli progressi compiuti negli ultimi decenni, l'essere umano continua a ottenere performance superiori alle macchine in molti task di computer vision. La …
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