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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"cognitive status"”.
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Relationships between cognitive status, speech impairment and communicative participation in Parkinson’s disease
Aim: To assess the relationships between cognitive status, speech impairment and communicative participation in Parkinson’s disease. Introduction: Speech and communication difficulties, as well as cognitive impairment, are prevalent in Parkinson’s. The contributions of cognitive impairment and …
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The Use Of The Cognitive Status Examination In Detecting Cognitive Impairment In Elderly People
… is sensitive and specific to the detection of cognitive impairment in the elderly may prove to be of significant benefit to clinicians and assist care-givers and family members in treatment decisions, accommodation requirements and the timely provision of a range of support services. This study …
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The Effect of Cognitive Status and Residency On Oral Health In Patients With Dementia
<p>Poor oral health is a predictor of cognitive decline in elderly populations and has been shown to precede dementia. As cognitive decline progresses, patients are likely to move from the community into nursing facilities. We hypothesize that severity of dementia and residency type will impact the …
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The Role of Fatigue, Depression, and Other Clinical Factors in Determining Cognitive Status in Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis and Transverse Myelitis
… Few studies have examined the prevalence of cognitive impairment or the role of fatigue and depression in cognitive functioning in pediatric patients with TM. Limited evidence suggests that both youth with MS and TM are at risk for adverse neuropsychological outcomes, less is known about …
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Brain Volumetry Markers and Cognitive Status in Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis /// Мозъчни волуметрични показатели и когнитивен статус при пристъпно-ремитентна множествена склероза
Изследването на клиничните прояви на невродегенеративния процес при множествена склероза от различни аспекти може да допринесе за неговото по-задълбочено изучаване и за идентифициране на нови рискови фактори и потенциални маркери, предсказващи хода на заболяването или отделни негови характеристики. …
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CNAS' Ratings of Nursing Home Residents' Pain: The Role of Empathy
Long-term care residents with and without cognitive impairment may experience undertreatment of persistent pain (Fain et al., 2017). Certified nursing assistants (CNAs) are important sources of information about resident pain as provide the majority of residents' hands-on care. Therefore, assessing …
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The Effect of Hearing Aid Use On Cognition in Older Adults with Adult Onset Hearing Loss: A Systematic Review
… hearing aids by older adults positively impacts cognitive status. If the results of this review uncover a positive association between hearing-aid use and cognition, then hearing aids can be recommended as an intervention method for the mitigation of cognitive decline. The eight studies included …
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Individual Differences and Memory Aging Concerns of Older Adults
… by the Knowledge of Memory Aging Questionnaire), cognitive status (indexed by the Mini-Mental State Exam), and affective status (indexed by the Geriatric Depression Scale). Regarding specific memory aging concerns, obligations to others, spatial information, and important dates were most …
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Determinants of Nonrecovery Following Hip Fracture in Older Adults: a Chronic Disease Trajectory Analysis
… personal characteristics, prefracture health status, hospital factors, rehabilitation features, and functional outcomes. The analysis consisted of a two-step hierarchical logistic regression model with the control variables of age, prefracture ambulation status, and prefracture cognitive …
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Sleep, Perivascular Spaces, and Cognition in Alzheimer's Disease and Parkinson's Disease
Cognitive dysfunction, particularly involving memory and executive function, is a core component of neurodegenerative conditions, such as Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease. Two factors that are likely related to and may contribute to these cognitive deficits are sleep changes and enlarged …
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MUSIC for midwives: A framework for Down syndrome communication during antenatal booking appointments
… screening information is influenced by their cognitive status and the midwives’ communicative style.<br/><br/>Method: The research was in two phases.<br/><br/>Phase 1: A new framework was developed, Measuring Understanding of Screening Information and Communication (MUSIC), which investigates …
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Penalized discriminant analysis for multivariate functional data
… that aims to identify subjects with poor cognitive status from diffusion MRI data. By leveraging a connection to the optimal scoring problem, we bypass minimizing complex objective functions directly and recast the problem into a penalized regression framework. The proposed formulation …
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Development of a Bedside Examination of Cognition in Multiple Sclerosis (BECIMS)
… multiple sclerosis (MS) exhibit some form of cognitive impairment. Identifying impairment in these patients would be beneficial to the patients and to society. However, it is too costly to refer every MS patient for full neuropsychological testing. Consequently, many attempts have been made to …
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Predicting Cognitive Decline in Older Adults
… tests are more likely to predict an individual’s cognitive decline (i.e., normal to mild cognitive impairment, mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer’s disease) two years prior to conversion. A sample of non-decliners (N=109) compared to those who declined (N=24) in cognitive status (i.e., mild …
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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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Acculturation and disability in Mexican American older adults
… risk factors (age, gender, education, marital status, and BMI), disablement process factors (chronic pathology, cognitive status, and physical performance), and activities of daily living disability (ADLs), and instrumental activities of daily living disability (IADLs). Chi-Square, Chi-Square …
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Predictors of Neuropsychological Status in Cardiac Patients
… While the fact that heart can negatively impact cognitive functioning is well documented, the factors that drive changes in cognition have not been studied in depth. Additionally, while many heart patients choose to enter cardiac rehabilitation (CR) programs designed to decrease morbidly and …
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Time of day effects on language discourse in healthy aging and dementia
… the two groups differed significantly on their cognitive performance across the day, but cognitive performance was not correlated with any of the linguistic measures. Measures of narrative quality were significantly different between the groups. Group differences in procedural quality and …
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Hippocampal Volume and the Detection of Mild Cognitive Impairment in an Older Adult Population: Assessing Performance on Cognitive Screeners Administered In-Person and Electronically
… predicted subcortical hippocampal volume and cognitive decline consistent with mild cognitive impairment. It was hypothesized that the Montreal Cognitive Assessment would display better predictive strength than the Cogstate Brief Battery when evaluating subcortical hippocampal volume measured …
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