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Cognitive functioning and anxiety

Psychological Research, 1987
Various possible differences in cognitive functioning between those high and low in trait anxiety are considered. Particular emphasis is paid to the hypothesis that individuals high in trait anxiety tend to approach threatening stimuli, whereas those low in trait anxiety tend to avoid such stimuli. The evidence indicates that there are such differences
M W, Eysenck, C, MacLeod, A, Mathews
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Hippocampal Function in Cognition

Psychopharmacology, 2004
Any consideration of cognitive disruption in schizophrenia quite naturally leads to questions concerning the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying normal cognition. This review will describe emerging models for the cellular basis of cognitive processing in the hippocampus.This review will describe results from several laboratories that have used
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Carbohydrates and cognitive function

Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition & Metabolic Care, 2018
Recent evidence documents the negative impact of obesity, diabetes mellitus, and other metabolic dysregulation on neurocognitive function. This review highlights a key dietary factor in these relationships: refined carbohydrates.Chronic consumption of refined carbohydrates has been linked to relative neurocognitive deficits across the lifespan ...
Misty A W, Hawkins, Natalie G, Keirns, Zachary, Helms   +2 more
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Phenobarbital and Cognitive Function

Pediatrics, 1982
The article by Wolf et al1 describes the performance of children on a battery of psychometric tasks. The study is an important one since it attempts to evaluate the effects of phenobarbital on cognitive abilities of preschool aged children. This topic has been neglected even though phenobarbital has been freely administered to children for prophylaxis ...
R J, Schain, M, Dreisbach
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Cognitive function in schizophrenia

International Clinical Psychopharmacology, 1997
Impaired cognitive function in schizophrenia, once thought to be a secondary effect of the psychosis, is now seen as an enduring and core feature. It has many manifestations, but the most disruptive element is arguably a fundamental defect in the patient's ability to manipulate available information.
D R, Weinberger, B, Gallhofer
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Mental and cognitive functions

2016
Along with an increasing aged population, cognitive disorder or dementia is the most serious problem in the world. Cognitive functions are composed of several higher brain functions, including memory; This chapter discusses anatomical basis of each of these functions, and symptoms and syndrome causes by impairment of each function or combination of ...
Hiroshi Shibasaki, Mark Hallett
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Dopamine and cognitive function

Current Opinion in Neurology, 2003
Although the cognitive deficits of idiopathic Parkinson's disease are now relatively well known, their neuropsychological and neurobiological basis are still discussed.As well as recent findings on cognitive changes and their underlying mechanisms, we will review new approaches concerning the effects of levo-dihydroxyphenylalanine, those of deep-brain ...
Bernard, Pillon, Virginie, Czernecki, Bruno, Dubois   +2 more
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Cerebellum: Cognitive Functions

2015
In the nineteenth century, researchers reached a consensus on the basis of animal ablation experiments that damage to the cerebellum leads to motor disorders but does not affect its sensory or cognitive functions. This model has been so influential that for over 100 years, the cerebellum has been considered to be strictly involved in motor control ...
Molinari M., LEGGIO, Maria
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Cognitive functioning in depression

Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1989
Verbal learning and memory, and recognition of famous faces, were assessed in 21 non-demented inpatients with RDC endogenous depression. Severity of depression was related to attention span, and patient age was related to measures of learning and recall.
J A, Sweeney, S, Wetzler, P, Stokes, J, Kocsis   +3 more
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Fasting and cognitive function

Journal of Psychiatric Research, 1982
The effects of short-term fasting (skipping breakfast) on the problem-solving performance of 9 to 11 yr old children were studied under the controlled conditions of a metabolic ward. The behavioral test battery included an assessment of IQ, the Matching Familiar Figure Test and Hagen Central Incidental Test.
E, Pollitt, N L, Lewis, C, Garza, R J, Shulman   +3 more
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