Sentences with phrase «cognitive neurology»

SPM8 (Wellcome Department of Cognitive Neurology, London, UK) was used to preprocess the functional images (Friston et al., 1994) on the Matlab 6.5.1 platform (Mathworks Inc., Natick, MA, USA).

My online collections of research papers by year of publication at PubMed, regarding Dyslexia and Cognitive Neurology.

«You can get dementia from a head injury, a stroke, or an infection in your brain, and these things are usually not going to be genetic,» says Douglas Scharre, MD, director of the Division of Cognitive Neurology at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center.

Dr. Daniel Kaufer, chief of cognitive neurology and memory disorders at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, said stressful life events may promote inflammation that increases aging.

For the pre-processing and statistical analyses, the statistical parametric mapping software package (SPM5, Wellcome Department of Cognitive Neurology, London; www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm) was used and implemented in Matlab (Mathworks, Inc., Natick, MA, USA release 14).

«We have many memory aids, tools and pharmaceutical treatments to help Alzheimer's patients with memory, but we don't have anything to help with improving their judgments, making good decisions, or increasing their ability to selectively focus attention on the task at hand and avoid distractions,» said study co-author Dr. Douglas Scharre of the Division of Cognitive Neurology at Ohio State's Wexner Medical Center's Neurological Institute.

A.M. Barrett, MD, a cognitive neurologist and clinical researcher, studies brain - behavior relationships from the perspectives of cognitive neurology, cognitive neuroscience, and cognitive neurorehabilitation.

Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center, Northwestern University Institute for Neuroscience, Chicago, USA

Her focus is brain - behavior relationships from the perspectives of cognitive neurology, cognitive neuroscience, and cognitive neurorehabilitation.

Along with the studies in live animals, the research team also studied human brain tissue from Northwestern's Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center.

Neurologists at the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center at Northwestern University came to this conclusion after analyzing 50 test subjects ranging in age from 23 to 78.

Bilateral extracephalic transcranial direct current stimulation improves endurance performance in healthy individuals (Dr Luca Angius, Dr Lex Mauger, Dr James Hopker, and Professor Samule Marcora, University of Kent, with Professor Alvaro Pascual - Leone, Berenson - Allen Center for Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation, Division of Cognitive Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Dr Emiliano Santarnecch, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA) is published in the journal Brain Stimulation.

«When we started this project, we weren't really sure we could find these individuals,» said Emily Rogalski, an associate professor at the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center at Northwestern's Feinberg School of Medicine.

«Discovering that amyloid begins to accumulate so early in life is unprecedented,» said lead investigator Changiz Geula, research professor at the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

This is essential for developing treatments that are truly effective,» is how Professor Emrah Düzel, site speaker of the DZNE in Magdeburg and director of the Institute of Cognitive Neurology and Dementia Research at the University of Magdeburg, explains the background to the study.

Looking forward, he envisions seeing patients in a small cognitive neurology clinical practice while continuing his research on memory and aging.

«This is a brand new arena,» says James Lah, MD, PhD, associate professor of neurology at Emory University School of Medicine and director of the Cognitive Neurology program.

As a cognitive neurology fellow at UC San Francisco's Memory and Aging Center, he also spends 1 day each week seeing patients with memory disorders.

Brain activity during hallucinations in a person with schizophrenia (Image: Wellcome department of cognitive neurology / Science Photo Library)

The brains of the super-agers showed less cortical thinning, or neuron loss in certain areas, said lead researcher Emily Rogalski, research associate professor at the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.

Not exact matches

In a second study, published today (June 2) in the Annals of Neurology, Bak set out to determine if the positive effects of bilingualism on cognition could actually be the other way around: that people who have better cognitive functions are more likely to learn foreign languages.

Fernando Pagan, a GUMC associate professor of neurology who directs the Movement Disorders Program at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, said that to his knowledge, the study «represents the first time a therapy appears to reverse — to a greater or lesser degree depending on stage of disease — cognitive and motor decline in patients with these neurodegenerative disorders.»

The journal Neurology published preliminary research suggesting that cacao may improve cognitive function and the flow of blood to the brain.

Following a season of grueling practices and hard - fought games, football and ice hockey players who had no outward sign of head trauma showed worrisome changes in brain structure and cognitive performance that weren't shared by athletes who competed in varsity sports such as track, crew and cross-country skiing, according to a report published Wednesday in the journal Neurology.

Cognition or cognitive processes can be natural and artificial, conscious and not conscious; therefore, they are analyzed from different perspectives and in different contexts, in anesthesia, neurology, psychology, philosophy, systemics and computer science.

Marilyn Albert is the Director of the Division of Cognitive Neuroscience in the Department of Neurology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Director of the Johns Hopkins Alzheimer's Disease Research Center.

Adam Gazzaley, professor of neurology, physiology and psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco and executive director of Neuroscape, has developed video games designed to improve memory, attention and learning that adjust to a player's performance and focus on different cognitive systems.

Cognitive neuroscientists tend to have a background in experimental psychology, neurobiology, neurology, physics, and mathematics.

Previous studies by Holtzman, co-first author Yo - El Ju, MD, an assistant professor of neurology, and others have shown that poor sleep increases the risk of cognitive problems.

The new six - year study, «Cognitive enhancement therapy for adult autism spectrum disorder: Results of an 18 - month randomized clinical trial,» involved 54 adults and was led by Shaun Eack, Ph.D., M.S.W., Pitt's David E. Epperson Professor of Social Work and Psychiatry, and Nancy Minshew, M.D., Pitt professor of psychiatry and neurology.

«Genre may impact cognitive training using video games: Games that utilize distinctive mechanics may offer different benefits, reports restorative neurology and neuroscience.»

Barry Gordon, professor of neurology and cognitive science at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, replies:

More than 6 percent of people in their 60s have mild cognitive impairment across the globe, and the condition becomes more common with age, according to the American Academy of Neurology.

The recommendation is part of an updated guideline for mild cognitive impairment published in the Dec. 27 online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

«This trial demonstrates that computer - based cognitive remediation accessed from home can be effective in improving cognitive symptoms for individuals with MS,» says lead study author Leigh Charvet, PhD, an associate professor in the Department of Neurology, and director of MS Research at NYU Langone's Multiple Sclerosis Comprehensive Care Center.

«Many patients with MS don't have the time or resources to get to the clinic several times a week for cognitive remediation, and this research shows remotely - supervised cognitive training can be successfully provided to individuals with MS from home,» says senior study author Lauren B. Krupp, MD, professor of neurology and director of the Multiple Sclerosis Comprehensive Care Center.

«The cognitive problems associated with PD are very debilitating,» says Narayanan, MD, PhD, UI assistant professor of neurology.

«Although we expected the rates of cognitive change to differ significantly between those with a history of TBI compared to those with no history of TBI, we found no significant difference between the groups, regardless of their APOE genotype,» explained corresponding author Robert Stern, PhD, Director of the Clinical Core of the Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center (BU ADC) and professor of neurology, neurosurgery and anatomy and neurobiology at Boston University School of Medicine.

A drug called PBT2, developed by Australian company Prana Biotechnology, appears to improve cognitive abilities in patients with early - stage Alzheimer's disease and reduce protein buildup blamed for the debilitating neurological disorder, researchers report in The Lancet Neurology.

While previously it was believed that the window for brain recovery was at most one year after injury, new research from the Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas published online today in the open - access journal Frontiers in Neurology shows cognitive performance can be improved to significant degrees months, and even years, after injury, given targeted brain training.

Findings published in Annals of Neurology, a journal of the American Neurological Association and Child Neurology Society, show that individuals who speak two or more languages, even those who acquired the second language in adulthood, may slow down cognitive decline from aging.

Instead it looks like at least some of the processes that cognitive psychologists and linguists have historically attributed to the application of rules may instead emerge from the association of speech sounds with words we already know,» says David Gow, PhD, of the MGH Department of Neurology.

The team of PD Dr Lars Schwabe from the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, together with colleagues from the neurology department at the university clinic Bergmannsheil, reports in the journal Biological Psychiatry.

And scientists are already beginning to expand on the findings published in JAMA Neurology by testing an edible oil that smaller studies indicate can improve cognitive abilities in patients.

Enhanced lifestyle counselling prevents cognitive decline even in people who are carriers of the APOE4 gene, a common risk factor of Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study published in JAMA Neurology.

Barry Gordon, M.D., Ph.D., Therapeutic Cognitive Neuroscience Professor, Director of the Cognitive / Neurology Neuropsychology Division of the Department of Neurology, Professor of Neurology and Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions

Milner pioneered an entirely new scientific discipline — which Nobel Prize winner Eric Kandel described as creating the new field of cognitive neuroscience by merging neurology and psychology.

Dr. Andrew E. Budson is a Professor of Neurology at BU School of Medicine, Associate Director for Research at the BU Alzheimer's Disease Center, Lecturer in Neurology at Harvard Medical School, and Consultant Neurologist at the Division of Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, Department of Neurology, at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

«As the world's population ages, cognitive frailty is our biggest biomedical challenge,» said Dena Dubal, MD, PhD, assistant professor of neurology, the David A. Coulter Endowed Chair in Aging and Neurodegeneration at UCSF and lead author of the study, published May 8 in Cell Reports.

He next trained in general neurology at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, returning to Boston where he pursued fellowship training in cognitive and behavioral neurology at Beth Israel Hospital.