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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"cognitive profile"”.
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A cognitive profile of South African children with traumatic brain injury
Research conducted on pediatric populations have shown that an event such as a traumatic brain injury (TBI) experienced in childhood can lead to persistent neuropsychological deficits months, even years post-injury. However, there still exists a dearth of research on pediatric TBI (pTBI), more so …
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Sensitivity to (sub)lexical cues as a function of cognitive profile and language abilities
… processing speed and accuracy (as indicators of cognitive differences) also affect readers’ sensitivity to morphological information in visual priming. The second part of the thesis extends these findings to the auditory modality. Study 3 demonstrates for the first time that individual …
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Cognitive profile in advanced Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) and the effects of hypoventilation on cognition
The portfolio has three parts.
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Boundaries of the cognitive phenotype of autism: social cognition and central coherence in young people with autistic traits and their first degree relatives
… and with normal personality types. At the cognitive level, groups of people with autistic disorder can be differentiated from people without the disorder by their ability to reason about beliefs and knowledge (Theory of Mind) and by tests of visual disembedding (central coherence). This …
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The Semantics of צרר Lexemes in the Hebrew Psalter
… particularly with respect to the structural and cognitive linguistic principles used throughout the study. Part of chapter 1 discusses the concept of “genre,” incorporating both Louis Hjelmslev’s mid-20th century discussion of genre as a multi-axis<br/>matrix, as well as drawing upon recent …
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The Impact of Traumatic Brain Injury on Neuropsychological Functioning and Tau Accumulation Later in Life in Military Veterans
… a history of TBI. The objective is to look at cognitive profile later in life for military veterans with moderate to severe TBI different and compared to older veterans with no history of TBI. Is there a difference in tau accumulations on neuroimaging in military veterans with moderate to …
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Investigating Cognitive Functioning in a Sample of Spinal Cord Injury Inpatients, in Relation to the Cognitive Demands of their Specialized Rehabilitation Program: A Pilot Exploratory Study
… programs have significant and specific cognitive demands, requiring patients to acquire knowledge and new skills while adjusting to their profoundly altered physiology. Existing research from high income countries (HIC) has shown that SCI is associated with cognitive dysfunction, which …
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Cognitive task performances as biomarkers & candidate endophenotypes in childhood neurodevelopmental disorders: ADHD & autism
… discriminated based on their neuropsychological profiles. Moreover, the study explored the cognitive profile of the comorbid ASD-ADHD group. Finally, the thesis assessed whether the biomarkers represent putative<br/>endophenotype.<br/>The findings suggested that even though the core diagnostic …
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Cognition and depression in cerebellar and frontal lobe stroke patients
… that the cerebellum is involved in higher order cognitive functions, and the cerebrocerebellar circuitry has been implicated in subserving such functions. Specifically, cerebellar lesions are associated with a constellation of deficits termed the cerebellar cognitive affective syndrome …
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Multiple intelligences and teachers' use of the school library media center
… asserts that each person has a unique cognitive profile made up of several different types of intelligences. This theory is being incorporated into school curricula in lesson planning. Gardner has identified eight types of intelligences that humans can possess. In order to plan …
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Exploring the prevalence of developmental reading difficulties in Children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
… associated with FASD are well documented, cognitive deficits remain largely unexplored. Some neuropsychological reviews include deficits in reading as part of the FASD cognitive profile; however, the extant empirical research investigating reading abilities in children with FASD is limited. …
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Genetic determinants of cognitive heterogeneity in Parkinson’s disease
… disease (PD) display an increased rate of cognitive decline heterogeneous in its presentation and detrimental to a person’s quality of life. The causes of cognitive diversity are unclear, however exploration of the genetic contribution to cognitive profiles is unearthing promising …
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Sensory and Cognitive Declines in Older Adults: A Longitudinal Study
… four years ago) were re-tested on sensory and cognitive measures. The goal was to examine the extent to which older adults experience longitudinal declines on sensory and cognitive abilities over a relatively short period of time, and whether declines in one domain accompany declines in the …
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Identifying Cognitive Profiles and Determinants of Cognitive Superaging Among Older Adults
Cognitive aging among older adults is heterogeneous and does not follow a single trajectory. This study used a person-centered approach to identify cognitive profiles, specifically cognitive superagers, among United States adults aged 75 and older and to quantify transitions between cognitive …
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Markers of Prognosis in Neurodegenerative Dementia
… with very high T-tau levels performed worse on cognitive tests at baseline, and exhibited a more rapid cognitive decline during follow up. Very high T-tau levels were also associated with a deviating cognitive profile characterized by symptoms from the medial temporal lobes. II. Patients with …
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Biases in Children's Cognitive Styles: Investigating Local, Global, and Rule-Based Processing in Autism Spectrum Disorders and Typical Development
… many attempts have been made to explain the cognitive profiles of children and adults with ASD. Three prominent theories, Weak Central Coherence (Frith, 1989), Systemizing (Baron-Cohen, 2002), and Executive Dysfunction Theory (Pennington & Ozonoff, 1996), may together provide a plausible …
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The role of affect and cognitive schemata in the assessment of psychopathy
This thesis examined psychopathy, cognitive schemata and affect in forensic and community populations. This was to identify whether cognitive schemata and affect would assist in the assessment of psychopathy. Study one was conducted on 38 male high secure hospital patients and 38 male prisoners. It …
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Classroom performance of students with an acquired brain injury: the impact of aide programs
… (including individual assessments of students' cognitive profile, the provision of education and support to teaching staff on the impact of ABI), additional factors important to the outcome of aide programs were raised. These factors included aides having an adequate knowledge of the curriculum, …
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Neuropsychological Deficits in Adolescents with Psychopathic Characteristics: Callous and Unemotional Symptoms
… et al., 2007). The following areas have been profiled in the literature, but have shown mixed results: sustained attention (Gorstein, 1982; Kosson, 1998; Pham et al., 2003), shifting attention (Gorstein, 1982; Kosson, 1998), verbal ability (Mayer et al., 2006; Raine et al., 1990), planning and …
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