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Sex and cognition: gender and cognitive functions [PDF]
Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 2016 Gender stereotypes hold that males outperform females in mathematics and spatial tests, and females outperform males on verbal tests. According to meta-analyses, however, among both children and adults, females perform equally to males on mathematics assessments.
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Phelan-McDermid syndrome: a classification system after 30 years of experience
Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases, 2022 Phelan-McDermid syndrome (PMS) was initially called the 22q13 deletion syndrome based on its etiology as a deletion of the distal long arm of chromosome 22.
Katy Phelan +13 more
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Study of cognitive impairment in depression
European Psychiatry, 2021 Introduction Cognitive impairment is frequently observed in patients suffering from depression. Cognitive dysfunction play a critical role in increasing the individual’s vulnerability for the first onset, maintenance and future recurrence of depressive
R. Sharma, J. Khattri, P. Thapa
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Offloading Cognition onto Cognitive Technology [PDF]
, 2008 "Cognizing" (e.g., thinking, understanding, and knowing) is a mental state. Systems without mental states, such as cognitive technology, can sometimes contribute to human cognition, but that does not make them cognizers.
Dror, I +5 more
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Biology Open, 2013 Summary The neural cell-adhesion molecules contactin 4, contactin 5 and contactin 6 are involved in brain development, and disruptions in contactin genes may confer increased risk for autism spectrum disorders (ASD).
Oriane Mercati +10 more
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The impact of cognitive functions and intellectual impairment on pacing and performance in sports [PDF]
, 2021 An essential determinant for success in sports is pacing. Cognitive mechanisms like self-regulation and executive functions are strongly related to adequate pacing behaviour, and people with Intellectual Impairment (II) experience shortfalls in those ...
Sakalidis, K. +4 more
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Psychiatry and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 2021 Objective: In our study, it is aimed to investigate impacts of cannabis use on information processing and psychomotor functions and to examine changes in the cognitive functions at the end of abstinence over a month.
Gokhan Umut +5 more
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Hypertension and Cognitive Function
Clinical and Experimental Hypertension, 2008 Arterial hypertension, cerebrovascular disease, and dementia are related pathologies. This paper has reviewed comparatively the incidence of arterial hypertension and adult-onset dementia disorders. Hypertension is associated with cerebrovascular disease, which is in turn associated with dementia.
Cristina, Paglieri +6 more
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Cognitive flexibility predicts early reading skills [PDF]
, 2014 An important aspect of learning to read is efficiency in accessing different kinds of linguistic information (orthographic, phonological, and semantic) about written words.
Blaye, Agnès +8 more
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Cognitive function and hypertension [PDF]
Journal of Human Hypertension, 2008 The importance of lowering blood pressure (BP) in hypertensive subjects is well known but the relationship between hypertension and cognitive function is controversial. This article reviews the role of hypertension in the aetiology of cognitive impairment and the relationships between BP, cerebral perfusion and cognition. It also summarizes findings of
Birns, J., Kalra, L.
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