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Mental Health Issues in Older Adults: Proven Strategies for Cognitive Deficits, Depression and Anxiety

By contrast, the 5 - CSRTT and DMTP task appeared insensitive to PCP treatment, but may be useful as a screen for cognitive deficits induced by antipsychotic medications, especially since such deficits decrease patient compliance.

Developing tailored interventions for cognitive deficits and behavioral difficulties key to improving outcomes after brain injury

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Even for the six - hour group, the cognitive deficits were equivalent to two nights of complete sleep deprivation.

Standard paper and pencil neuropsychological tests (see box) have proven useful for identifying cognitive deficits resulting from concussions, and have been available to sports medicine clinicians for a number of years.

Noting — as I often have on this blog — that cognitive deficits make children especially vulnerable to the persuasive power of advertising, Simon and Linn object to any use of cartoon characters and other standard tactics for marketing to kids, even for objectively healthy foods such as this:

and Focus On Transition (two therapeutic programs for individuals with aphasia and cognitive - linguistic deficits), Hear It, Say It, Learn It (a children's program for developing language and literacy), and co-author of a best - selling textbook Acquired Language Disorders: A Case - based Approach, in its 2nd edition.

«Childhood aggression linked to deficits in executive function: Primary school children with reduced cognitive skills for planning and self - restraint are more likely to show increased aggression in middle childhood.»

Light drinking in pregnancy, a risk for behavioural problems and cognitive deficits at 3 years of age?

The abnormalities were found in patients not currently experiencing depression or mania, which suggests that there is a structural basis for altered neural processing that may help explain why cognitive deficits persist even during periods of normal mood.

This may provide a potential explanation for why some children with absence epilepsy may have continued deficits in cognitive performance, despite successful treatment of their seizures.

As part of a collaborative effort, clinical researchers Rebecca Ashare, PhD, an assistant professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, and Robert Schnoll, PhD, an associate professor of Psychology in Psychiatry and director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Nicotine Addiction, are studying the effects of metformin on smokers to see if it attenuates negative mood and cognitive deficits during withdrawal — symptoms known to be associated with the ability to quit.

It is critical for physicians to monitor these secondary tissue damages, as they are frequently the origin of significant long - term effects, including brain damage, cognitive deficits, psychosocial / behavioral / emotional changes, bodily damage and biochemical changes at the cellular level.

«As with other areas of personalized medicine, we would seek to create individual treatment and prevention plans for astronauts we believe would be more susceptible to cognitive deficits from radiation exposure,» she says.

Adversity early on — malnutrition or neglect of an infant's physical and emotional needs, for example — can leave cognitive deficits that persist for life.

After a concussion, a person can be left with disturbed sleep, memory deficits and other cognitive problems for years, but a new study led by Rebecca Spencer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggests that despite these abnormalities, sleep still helps them to overcome memory deficits, and the benefit is Frontier in Human Neurosciequivalent to that seen in individuals without a history of mild traumatic brain injury (TBI), also known as concussion.

Funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the study probes members of the Native American Church for deficits in memory and other cognitive functions.

The findings suggest that interventions designed to target deficits in cognitive - affective responding may be effective for prevention and intervention programs for depression following natural disasters.

M. Catherine Bushnell, PhD, scientific director, Division of Intramural Research, National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, NIH, explained in a plenary session address that many chronic pain patients show associated anxiety and depression as well as deficits in cognitive functions.

The results, which could have implications for the early diagnosis of autism and other cognitive deficits, were published in the online early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on November 6, 2017.

«Although evidence suggesting the presence of cognitive deficits in children with sleep apnea has been around for quite some time,» said Leila Gozal, MD, MSc, from the University of Chicago, «the relatively small groups studied made it difficult to demonstrate a strong relationship between increasing cognitive issues and increasing sleep apnea severity.»

The next step for him and his colleagues is to determine if environmental enrichment — either through 3 - D video games or real - world exploration experiences — can reverse the hippocampal - dependent cognitive deficits present in older populations.

Cognitive deficits have been seen to persist for more than a decade following cancer treatment for many survivors.

Cognitive symptoms, including deficits in long - term memory, are known to affect approximately half of individuals with MS.. This study was conducted in 70 patients with MS, who were evaluated for intellectual enrichment, verbal long - term memory, and working memory capacity.

This study, published in Clinical Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, is novel in that it confirms GWI deficits in working memory, a critical cognitive function that enables short - term retention of information for higher - level thinking ability.

The results of this study provide measures associated with normal cognitive aging in Border collies, and thus could be used as a basis for breed comparisons as well as early recognition and treatment of certain cognitive deficits.

Now, by dampening the activity of a small group of neurons deep within the mouse brain, researchers have produced cognitive deficits similar to those found in those with schizophrenia, a discovery that they say could potentially lead to new treatments for the disorder, which affects roughly 24 million people worldwide.

According to principal investigator Wendy A. Suzuki, PhD, Professor of Neural Science and Psychology in the Center for Neural Science, New York University, «Exercise interventions are currently being used to help address everything from cognitive impairments in normal aging, minimal cognitive impairment (MCI), and Alzheimer's disease to motor deficits in Parkinson's disease and mood states in depression.

New research from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) shows a significant relationship between motivational deficit and poor cognitive performance in people with schizophrenia.

The brain health index predicted more strongly cognitive deficits commonly seen in stroke and SVD than current, validated clinical scoring methods and other computer programmes used for assessing features of brain deterioration.

«By isolating a protein that contributes to cognitive deficits in Angelman syndrome, these findings mark a step forward in not only addressing AS, but perhaps other developmental disorders as well,» said Eric Klann, a professor in New York University's Center for Neural Science and one of the study's co-authors.

This study provides one of the first animal models to demonstrate the long - term cognitive deficits resulting from a chemotherapeutic treatment used in treating humans for breast cancer.

«Our ultimate goal is to help people with learning difficulties and memory deficits,» said Earl K Miller, senior author of the paper and the Picower Professor of Neuroscience at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory Development of Brain and Cognitive Sciences.

For example, he discovered that reducing levels of a protein called tau can prevent cognitive deficits in animal models of the disease.

Most recently, they have shown that by pharmacologically restoring NMDAR function in these «schizophrenic» mice, their structural, neurochemical, and cognitive deficits can be reversed, pointing to new strategies for more effective treatments for schizophrenia and potentially other serious mental illnesses.

Our physicians work very closely with each patient's cancer specialists (medical, surgical, and radiation oncologists) to coordinate care and to help craft a comprehensive treatment plan that accounts for how frailty, co-existing disease, functional limitations, and cognitive deficits may impact treatment decisions.

«The physical proximity of all the schools... allows for effortless interactions,» says Vanderbilt psychologist Sohee Park, whose work has helped define the cognitive deficits of schizophrenia.

Mar. 14, 2014 — A brain - mapping study of patients with schizophrenia has found that areas associated with the ability to imitate are impaired, providing new support for the theory that deficits in this basic cognitive skill may underlie the profound difficulty with social interactions that characterize the disorder.

A role for Aβ - mediated toxicity is further supported by the fact that cognitive deficits progressed according with the incremental accumulation of the amyloid pathology, in particular, increased levels of soluble Aβ42 (Figure 8a).

Current medicines for schizophrenia are unable to address cognitive deficits.

This work has important implications for developing novel treatment strategies for psychiatric disorders associated with social cognitive deficits, including autism spectrum disorders and schizophrenia.

Thus, anatomical brain changes may contribute to specific cognitive deficits associated with very preterm birth and could be used in the identification of those individuals who may be at increased risk for cognitive impairment.

Attention - deficit / hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and Parkinson's disease (PD) involve pathological changes in brain structures such as the basal ganglia, which are essential for the control of motor and cognitive behavior and impulsivity.

Finally, combining the results of PET imaging of declines in these different neuromodulator systems with behavioral studies in patients with Parkinson's disease and rodents with experimental damage to those systems helps us understand how they contribute to both cognitive deficits and the risk for falls.

Though the authors couldn't pinpoint a mechanism from this study — it was associative — they note that one possibility is that the overconsumption of sugars and refined starches is a risk factor for inflammation and cardiovascular disease, both of which have been linked to the development of depression.This kind of diet could also lead insulin resistance, which has been linked to cognitive deficits similar to those found in people with major depression.

Without proactively caring for your brain, your chances of suffering from severe deficits in cognitive function at some point in your life are about 50/50 — no better than a flip of a coin.

The cognitive deficits of chronic fatigue patients are often characterized as «brain fog,» 49 and investigators have found a general slowing down of brain functions.50 For patients to complain of rushing, frantic thought processes is an anomaly that can complicate the diagnosis of chronic fatigue, unless its role as a tipoff of possible high copper is recognized.

It is linked with producing different cognitive deficits in both humans and animals and is required for a developing brain and proper cognitive functions in animals.

Improving overall cardiovascular health (such as reducing blood pressure and cholesterol) will help to reduce the risk of stroke, but in many cases, people suffer a stroke and are looking for ways to improve recovery and prevent lasting cognitive deficits.

DMAE is used for treating attention deficit disorder (ADD), enhancing memory and mood, boosting cognitive function, treating Alzheimer's disease, increasing IQ and physical energy, improving athletic performance, delaying aging, improving red blood cell function, improving muscle reflex and increasing oxygen efficiency, extending life span, treating autism, and treating tardive dyskinesia.