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Middle East Current Psychiatry, 2022 Background Epilepsy is a prevalent disease worldwide. Executive functions and social cognition are essential in daily living functioning, academic performance, and social adjustment.
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Executive functions in the context of complex learning: Malleable moderators?
Frontline Learning Research, 2017 Executive functions are crucial for complex learning in addition to prior knowledge. In this article, we argue that executive functions can moderate the effectiveness of instructional approaches that vary with respect to the demand on these functions. In
Matthias Schwaighofer +2 more
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Comparison of objective and subjective executive functions of chronic kidney dialysis patients and normal people [PDF]
مجله علوم روانشناختی, 2023 Background: Chronic kidney disease is one of the widespread public health problems. This disease is associated with extensive cognitive deficits, among which visual attention, psychomotor speed and executive function can be mentioned.
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The Assessment of Executive Functioning in Children [PDF]
Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 2010 Background: Executive functioning is increasingly seen as incorporating several component sub‐skills and clinical assessments should reflect this complexity. Method: Tools for assessing executive functioning in children are reviewed ...
Henry, L., Bettenay, C.
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Executive functions and their disorders [PDF]
British Medical Bulletin, 2003 The term executive function defines complex cognitive processing requiring the co-ordination of several subprocesses to achieve a particular goal. Neuropsychological evidence suggests that executive processing is intimately connected with the intact function of the frontal cortices.
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Investigating the impact of nicotine on executive functions using a novel virtual reality assessment [PDF]
, 2012 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. This may be due in part to the poor sensitivity of tests used to assess
Jansari, A.S. +10 more
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Executive functions in anorexia nervosa
Nutrición Hospitalaria, 2014 Introduction: The pathophysiologic mechanisms that account for the development and persistence of anorexia nervosa (AN) remain unclear. With respect to the neuropsychological functioning, the executive functions have been reported to be altered ...
Ignacio Jauregui-Lobera
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Imaging the genetics of executive function [PDF]
Biological Psychology, 2008 Recent advances in neuroimaging technologies have allowed ever more detailed studies of the human brain. The combination of neuroimaging techniques with genetics may provide a more sensitive measure of the influence of genetic variants on cognitive function than behavioural measures alone.
Greene, C. M. +3 more
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Executive functions and aging [PDF]
CoDAS, 2016 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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Acute hypoglycemia impairs executive cognitive function in adults with and without type 1 diabetes [PDF]
, 2013 OBJECTIVE Acute hypoglycemia impairs cognitive function in several domains. Executive cognitive function governs organization of thoughts, prioritization of tasks, and time management.
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