Cognition
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Saturday, November 07, 2009

Cycling behavior and memory formation.

12 Oct 2009 Circadian research has spent considerable effort in the determining clock output pathways, including identifying both physiological and behavioral processes that demonstrate significant time-of-day variation. Memory formation and consolidation ... Read more...

Design and implementation of an effective telephone counseling intervention for adolescent smoking cessation.

10 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: Effective smoking cessation for youth is urgently needed, but the literature guiding such efforts is nascent. We evaluated the implementation of a proactive intervention for adolescent smoking cessation that incorporated motivational ... Read more...

Driving under low-contrast visibility conditions in Parkinson disease.

4 Oct 2009 OBJECTIVE: To assess driving performance in Parkinson disease (PD) under low-contrast visibility conditions. METHODS: Licensed, active drivers with mild to moderate PD (n = 67, aged 66.2 +/- 9.0 years, median Hoehn-Yahr stage = 2) and controls (n = ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Cognition'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Newsmaker interview. Tonegawa rethinks Japan's premier brain research center. Interview by Dennis Normile. 14 Oct 2009
• Cycling behavior and memory formation. 12 Oct 2009
• Design and implementation of an effective telephone counseling intervention for adolescent smoking cessation. 10 Oct 2009
• Driving under low-contrast visibility conditions in Parkinson disease. 4 Oct 2009
• How to influence patient oral hygiene behavior effectively. 29 Sep 2009
• Longitudinal study of the transition from healthy aging to Alzheimer disease. 29 Sep 2009
• Promising strategies for the prevention of dementia. 29 Sep 2009
• Turbocharging the brain. 29 Sep 2009
• Randomized trial of a parenting intervention for very preterm infants: outcome at 2 years. 29 Sep 2009
• The role of basic sciences in diagnostic oral radiology. 29 Sep 2009
• Rapid improvement in affective information processing after acute administration of reboxetine. 29 Sep 2009
• The chimpanzee mind: in search of the evolutionary roots of the human mind. 29 Sep 2009
• Factors associated with cognition in adults: the Seattle Longitudinal Study. 29 Sep 2009
• Apolipoprotein genotype does not influence MS severity, cognition, or brain atrophy. 27 Sep 2009
• Comment on "Infants' perseverative search errors are induced by pragmatic misinterpretation". 23 Sep 2009
• Cognitive change effects in a semantic, a numeric, and a figure inference task. 21 Sep 2009
• From communication signals to human language and thought: evolution or revolution? 21 Sep 2009
• [Gamma-hydroxybutyric acid (GHB): more than a date rape drug, a potentially addictive drug] 14 Sep 2009
• Differential sensitivity to human communication in dogs, wolves, and human infants. 2 Sep 2009
• Behavior. Like infant, like dog. 2 Sep 2009

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Technical information about 'Cognition'

Definition: Intellectual or mental process whereby an organism becomes aware of or obtains knowledge.

Descriptor UI: D003071

Alternative terms: Cognition;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; drug effects; physiology; radiation effects; ethics;

Tree Number: F02.463.188;