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Dissociation: Cognitive Capacity or Dysfunction?

Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 2006
Dissociative experiences are mostly studied as a risk factor for dissociative pathology. Nonpathological dissociation is quite common in the general population, however, and may reflect a constitutionally determined cognitive style rather than a pathological trait acquired through the experience of adverse life events.
de Ruiter, M.B., Elzinga, B.M., Phaf, R.H.   +2 more
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Cognitive Dysfunction

Abstract Rehabilitation psychologists have an important role in characterizing cognitive dysfunction impacting functioning and affecting quality of life. This chapter offers a comprehensive overview of rehabilitation psychologists’ approach to cognitive assessment and interventions for cognitive dysfunction.
Kathleen T. Bechtold, Teresa Ashman, Suzzette M. Chopin, Theo Tsaousides   +3 more
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Cognition, Cognitive Dysfunction, and Cognitive Rehabilitation in Multiple Sclerosis

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of North America, 2013
This article focuses on approaches and techniques for effective cognitive rehabilitation with people who have multiple sclerosis (MS). The patterns of preserved versus disrupted neuropsychological functions are reviewed. The relevant brain anatomy and physiology that underlie the common neurocognitive and neurobehavioral changes are described.
Mary, Pepping, Julie, Brunings, Myron, Goldberg   +2 more
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Cognitive Dysfunction in Myasthenia Gravis

International Journal of Neuroscience, 1990
The performance of patients with myasthenia gravis (MG) on selective neuropsychological tests was examined to assess the diagnostic applicability of such examinations. Twenty-seven patients with MG and twenty-seven age, sex, and education-matched controls were given a battery of tests designed to assess cognitive functions.
Y, Iwasaki, M, Kinoshita, K, Ikeda, K, Takamiya, T, Shiojima   +4 more
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Postoperative Cognitive Dysfunction in the Elderly

Anesthesiology Clinics, 2009
Despite improvement in surgical techniques, anesthetic management, and intensive care, a significant number of elderly patients develop postoperative cognitive decline. Postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD) is a postoperative memory or thinking impairment that has been corroborated by neuropsychological testing, for which increasing age is the ...
Ramesh, Ramaiah, Arthur M, Lam
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Chemotherapy-Related Cognitive Dysfunction

Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports, 2012
Many cancer patients develop treatment-related cognitive dysfunction that affects their quality of life and can result in diminished functional independence. There is an emerging body of transdisciplinary research demonstrating that chemotherapeutic agents can produce neurobiological changes within the brain, which are associated with a constellation ...
Jeffrey S, Wefel, Sanne B, Schagen
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Symptoms: Fatigue and Cognitive Dysfunction

2015
Fatigue and cognitive complaints commonly occur during adjuvant chemotherapy treatment of breast cancer. Fatigue is also associated with radiation therapy, and can occur with surgery alone. Both of these symptoms may persist beyond the initial treatment of breast cancer and they have taken on greater prominence with the growing number of breast cancer ...
Julienne E, Bower, Patricia A, Ganz
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Cerebrovascular disease and cognitive dysfunction

Neurological Research, 2002
As the general population ages, the progressive cognitive decline that occurs with aging and dementia is having a significant socioeconomic impact on society. Vascular dementia associated with cerebral vascular disease is now the third most common cause of dementia.
Giuseppe, Lanzino, Desiree J, Lanzino, David, Wang   +2 more
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Cognitive dysfunction in sleep disorders

Sleep Medicine Reviews, 2001
Fifty-six studies were reviewed that explored cognitive dysfunctions in people with sleep-related breathing disorders (SRBD, 24 studies), insomnia (18 studies), or narcolepsy (14 studies). Individual study outcomes were grouped according to neuropsychological functions.
S, Fulda, H, Schulz
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Animal models of cognitive dysfunction

Mechanisms of Ageing and Development, 2006
The increased life expectancy in industrialised countries in the last half century has also brought to a greater incidence of neurological disorders, including neurodegenerative diseases and developing in a rather long time. In this respect, Alzheimer's disease (AD), for the large incidence, and the dramatic loss of autonomy caused by its cognitive and
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