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Cognitive function in people with and without freezing of gait in Parkinson’s disease [PDF]
Freezing of gait (FOG) is common in people with Parkinson’s disease (PD) which is extremely debilitating. One hypothesis for the cause of FOG episodes is impaired cognitive control, however, this is still in debate in the literature. We aimed to assess a
Carlson-Kuhta, Patricia+6 more
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Implicit cognition is impaired and dissociable in a head-injured group with executive deficits [PDF]
Implicit or non-conscious cognition is traditionally assumed to be robust to pathology but Gomez-Beldarrain et al (1999, 2002) recently showed deficits on a single implicit task after head injury.
Andrade, J.+4 more
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Executive function performance in middle-aged adults [PDF]
. Executive functions have been widely studied in the extreme of ages, but studies in middle-aged adults remain largely neglected. Education and gender are known to influence cognitive performance; however, their effect on executive function in middle ...
Namrata Sharma, Shweta Shenoy
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Executive functions and aging [PDF]
Executive functions (EF) may be explained as the ability to plan, organize and perform intentional behavior. They refer to high level cognitive processes associated to working memory, sustained attention, dominant responses inhibition, planning and monitoring performance and activities, objective maintenance, objective and task initiation and cognitive
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Threat-Modulation of Executive Functions—A Novel Biomarker of Depression?
Background: Alterations in executive functions, emotion regulation, and their interaction are common concomitants of depression. Executive dysfunction frequently lingers after treatment, has adverse effects on daily life, and predisposes to recurrence of
Jari Peräkylä+8 more
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Music training is associated with enhanced executive function but little is known about the extent to which harmonic aspects of musical training are associated with components of executive function.
Jenna L. Winston+4 more
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Social re-orientation and brain development: An expanded and updated view. [PDF]
Social development has been the focus of a great deal of neuroscience based research over the past decade. In this review, we focus on providing a framework for understanding how changes in facets of social development may correspond with changes in ...
Guyer, Amanda E+2 more
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BackgroundProlonged time on sedentary behavior, especially screen-based sitting time, is associated with unfavorable health indicators in children and adolescents.
Shiyuan Li+5 more
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Investigating the impact of nicotine on executive functions using a novel virtual reality assessment [PDF]
Aims Nicotine is known to enhance aspects of cognitive functioning in abstinent smokers but the effects on specific areas of executive functions, and in non-smokers are inconclusive.
Al-Adawi+47 more
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Background. School-aged children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) face many difficulties with self-directed learning because of their poor executive function.
Mi Ji Kim+3 more
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