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Original Source: Adaptation of Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination-Revised for the Greek population.
Background/Purpose: Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination-Revised [1] is a highly sensitive and specific bedside test for the diagnosis of dementia. The aim of this study was to validate a Greek version of this simple, bedside instrument and to investigate its psychometric properties. Method: We translated and administered the Greek version of the ACE-R to 95 individuals comprising two groups: a dementia group (n = 35) and an age-matched and education-matched healthy control group (n = 60). Results: Our resul...
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Cognitive Bias Modification (CBM)
Cognitive Bias Modification (CBM) is new psychiatric therapy; involving just a few 15-minute sessions and no drugs, discussion of feelings, or even a psychiatrist, it is described as a cognitive vac...
Dementia describes a range of symptoms of cognitive decline. For example memory loss, problems with reasoning and communication skills, and a reduction in a person's abilities and skills in carr...
Tinnitus causes people to hear constant sounds in one ear, both ears or in their head. Tinnitus is the medical name for the perception of noise in one ear, both ears or in the head. The noise comes...
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New York, NY (PRWEB) March 26, 2013 CogniFit â Using its extensive and cognitive database, CogniFit found that people who engage in a number of brain training sessions beyond 6 months experi...
Women with migraines do not appear to experience cognitive decline
Women with migraines did not appear to experience a decline in cognitive ability over time compared to those who didn't have them, according to a nine-year follow up study funded by the National Insti...
One in three children with MS has cognitive impairment
Data from the largest multicenter study accessing cognitive functioning in children with multiple sclerosis (MS) reveals that one-third of these patients have cognitive impairment, according to a rese...
Hearing Loss Linked to Cognitive Decline, Impairment
Older adults with hearing loss experience faster cognitive decline and are more likely to have cognitive impairment than those with normal hearing. Medscape Medical News
People with metabolic abnormalities may experience rapid decline in their cognitive skills
People who are obese and also have high blood pressure and other risk factors called metabolic abnormalities may experience a faster decline in their cognitive skills over time than others, according...
Einstein's Remarkable Cognitive Abilities May Be Explained By Uncommon Features Of His Brain
Portions of Albert Einstein's brain have been found to be unlike those of most people and could be related to his extraordinary cognitive abilities, according to a new study led by Florida State Unive...
Early Surgical Menopause Linked to Early Cognitive Decline
Women who experience an abrupt loss of estrogen may suffer cognitive decline, and hormone replacement therapy may help counteract this risk. Medscape Medical News
'Brain training' may lessen cognitive impairments associated with coronary bypass surgery
(University of Montreal) Each year in Quebec, nearly 6,000 people undergo coronary bypass surgery. Recovery is long and quality of life is greatly affected, in particular because most patients experie...
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The conversational mini-mental state examination: Estimating cognitive impairment.
Formal cognitive testing is an integral part of the mental state examination, and we aimed to test whether clinicians were able to predict the score on the mini-mental state examination (MMSE) by watc...
Background: Cognitive dysfunction in unipolar disorder (UD) and bipolar disorder (BD) may persist into remission and affect psychosocial function. Executive and memory deficits during remission may be...
There is a clear need for brief, but sensitive and specific, cognitive screening instruments for dementia. We assessed the diagnostic accuracy of the Japanese version of Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examin...
Sexual experience restores age-related decline in adult neurogenesis and hippocampal function.
Aging is associated with compromised hippocampal function and reduced adult neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus. As new neurons have been linked to hippocampal functions, such as cognition, age-related...
Diabetes mellitus and cognitive decline.
From large epidemiological studies, it has been demonstrated that diabetes mellitus is a risk factor for cognitive decline: Compared to healthy controls, patients with diabetes perform worse on cognit...
