Cognition Disorders - Psychology
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Friday, November 20, 2009

Relative preservation of MMSE scores in autopsy-proven dementia with Lewy bodies.

4 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: Recent studies raised questions about the severity of cognitive impairment associated with dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). However, there have been few analyses of large, multicenter data registries for clinical-pathologic correlation. ... Read more...

Ten-year change in plasma amyloid beta levels and late-life cognitive decline.

29 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: Plasma levels of amyloid beta peptide (Abeta) are potential biomarkers of early cognitive impairment and decline and of Alzheimer disease risk. OBJECTIVE: To relate midlife plasma Abeta measures and 10-year change in plasma Abeta ... Read more...

The role of mindfulness in borderline personality disorder features.

29 Sep 2009 This study investigated whether deficits in mindfulness (attention, awareness, and acceptance of the present moment) underlie variability in borderline personality disorder (BPD) features and related impairments in interpersonal functioning, ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Cognition Disorders - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Relative preservation of MMSE scores in autopsy-proven dementia with Lewy bodies. 4 Oct 2009
• Choice Reaction Time and cognitive dysfunction following cardiac surgery. 29 Sep 2009
• Ten-year change in plasma amyloid beta levels and late-life cognitive decline. 29 Sep 2009
• The role of mindfulness in borderline personality disorder features. 29 Sep 2009
• Efficacy of time pressure management in stroke patients with slowed information processing: a randomized controlled trial. 29 Sep 2009
• Post-stroke cognitive impairments. 29 Sep 2009
• Predicting the time of conversion to MCI in the elderly: role of verbal expression and learning. 28 Sep 2009
• Predicting conversion to mild cognitive impairment: some error is the price of much truth. 28 Sep 2009
• Declining financial capacity in mild cognitive impairment: A 1-year longitudinal study. 20 Sep 2009
• Comparative study of neurocognitive function in euthymic bipolar patients and stabilized schizophrenic patients. 13 Sep 2009
• Meta-cognitive profiles in anxiety disorders. 4 Sep 2009
• American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology Consensus Conference Statement on the neuropsychological assessment of effort, response bias, and malingering. 31 Aug 2009
• Four years of successful maintenance electroconvulsive therapy. 30 Aug 2009
• Developing a measure of sluggish cognitive tempo for children: content validity, factor structure, and reliability. 30 Aug 2009
• [Posterior cortical atrophy] 30 Aug 2009
• Association of C-reactive protein with mild cognitive impairment. 30 Aug 2009
• "Below average" self-assessed school performance and Alzheimer's disease in the Aging, Demographics, and Memory Study. 30 Aug 2009
• Severe Impairment Battery Language scale: a language-assessment tool for Alzheimer's disease patients. 30 Aug 2009
• Predictors of new onset depression in medically ill, disabled older adults at 1 year follow-up. 30 Aug 2009
• Measuring impairments in memory and executive function in older people using the Revised Cambridge Cognitive Examination. 30 Aug 2009

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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