Cognition Disorders - Classification
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Severe Impairment Battery Language scale: a language-assessment tool for Alzheimer's disease patients.

30 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND: Communication problems are common in Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients, but instruments to assess these symptoms are limited. Our objective was to create a new scale, based on the language subscale of the Severe Impairment Battery (SIB), ... Read more...

Selectivity of executive function deficits in mild cognitive impairment.

30 Aug 2009 Impairment in executive cognition (EC) is now recognized as relatively common among older persons with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and may be predictive of the development of dementia. However, both MCI and executive functioning are broad and ... Read more...

Prevalence of mild cognitive impairment and its subtypes are influenced by the application of diagnostic criteria: results from the Korean Longitudinal Study on Health and Aging (KLoSHA).

15 Jul 2009 AIMS: We investigated the influence of varying applications of diagnostic criteria on the prevalence of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in community-dwelling Korean elders. METHODS: A study population of 1,118 Korean elders was randomly sampled from ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Cognition Disorders - Classification'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Severe Impairment Battery Language scale: a language-assessment tool for Alzheimer's disease patients. 30 Aug 2009
• Selectivity of executive function deficits in mild cognitive impairment. 30 Aug 2009
• Prevalence of mild cognitive impairment and its subtypes are influenced by the application of diagnostic criteria: results from the Korean Longitudinal Study on Health and Aging (KLoSHA). 15 Jul 2009
• [Vascular cognitive impairment a spectrum of diseases] 29 Apr 2009
• Amyloid imaging in mild cognitive impairment subtypes. 29 Apr 2009
• Quantification of five neuropsychological approaches to defining mild cognitive impairment. 29 Apr 2009
• Mitochondrial disorders, cognitive impairment and dementia. 4 Mar 2009
• Identifying mild cognitive impairment at baseline in the Ginkgo Evaluation of Memory (GEM) study. 27 Feb 2009
• [Mild cognitive impairment: the neuropsychological characteristics of the different subtypes] 27 Feb 2009
• Differences in neuropsychological performance between subtypes of obsessive-compulsive disorder. 27 Feb 2009
• The concept of mild cognitive impairment: relevance and limits in clinical practice. 24 Jan 2009
• Contributions of neuropsychology and neuroimaging to understanding clinical subtypes of mild cognitive impairment. 30 Dec 2008
• Mathematical learning disability in girls with Turner syndrome: a challenge to defining MLD and its subtypes. 30 Dec 2008
• [Quality of life, depression and cognitive functions 6. Cognitive functions] 30 Dec 2008
• Exploring the latent structure of two cognitive components of social anxiety: taxometric analyses of fears of negative and positive evaluation. 30 Dec 2008
• Cognitive functioning in euthymic bipolar I and bipolar II patients. 29 Nov 2008
• Hippocampal volumes, proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy metabolites, and cerebrovascular disease in mild cognitive impairment subtypes. 29 Nov 2008
• Variability of cognitive development in children with Down syndrome: relevance of good reasons for using the cluster procedure. 23 Nov 2008
• Differential hypometabolism patterns according to mild cognitive impairment subtypes. 4 Nov 2008
• Psychiatric aspects of organ transplantation in critical care. 29 Sep 2008

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Technical information about 'Cognition Disorders'

Definition: Disturbances in the mental process related to thinking, reasoning, and judgment.

Descriptor UI: D003072

Alternative terms: Cognition Disorders; Disorder, Cognition; Disorders, Cognition; Overinclusion;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: F03.087.250;

History Note: 69