The Experience of Patients with Schizophrenia Treated with Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Auditory Hallucinations by Priya Subramanian, Amer Burhan, Luljeta Pallaveshi, Abraham Rudnick

“…A phenomenological approach was used and modified to involve some predetermined data structuring to accommodate for expected cognitive impairments of participants and the impact of rTMS on auditory hallucinations. …”
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Balance Dysfunction in Parkinson’s Disease: The Role of Posturography in Developing a Rehabilitation Program by Davide Ferrazzoli, Alfonso Fasano, Roberto Maestri, Rossana Bera, Grazia Palamara, Maria Felice Ghilardi, Gianni Pezzoli, Giuseppe Frazzitta

“…Parkinsonian patients not complaining of a subjective BD and controls were tested using a posturographic platform (PP) with open eyes (OE) and performing a simple cognitive task [counting (OEC)]. We found that patients show higher values of total standard deviation (SD) of body sway and along the medio-lateral (ML) axis during OE condition. …”
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The Use of Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM96) as a Decision Aid in the Differential Diagnosis of Dementia Using 99mTc-HMPAO SPECT by A. Barnes, D. Lusman, J. Patterson, D. Brown, D. Wyper

“…In this study standard patterns of cerebral perfusion based on classifications described in the literature have been chosen and the ability of experienced imaging specialists to categorise the 99mTc HMPAO SPECT scans of patients referred to the department for investigation of dementia has been compared before and after the calculation of Statistical Parametric Maps (SPM—Wellcome Dept of Cognitive Neurology). The primary aim was to investigate whether SPM is an effective decision aid and whether it impacts on the confidence of image reporting. …”
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Adult Gross Motor Learning and Sleep: Is There a Mutual Benefit? by Monica Christova, Hannes Aftenberger, Raffaele Nardone, Eugen Gallasch

“…An extensive amount of research on cognitive and fine motor tasks has shown that sleep is able to enhance these processes, resulting in more stable declarative and procedural memory traces. …”
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Social Networks and Memory over 15 Years of Followup in a Cohort of Older Australians: Results from the Australian Longitudinal Study of Ageing by Lynne C. Giles, Kaarin J. Anstey, Ruth B. Walker, Mary A. Luszcz

“…The purpose was to examine the relationship between different types of social networks and memory over 15 years of followup in a large cohort of older Australians who were cognitively intact at study baseline. Our specific aims were to investigate whether social networks were associated with memory, determine if different types of social networks had different relationships with memory, and examine if changes in memory over time differed according to types of social networks. …”
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Defense against Malicious Users in Cooperative Spectrum Sensing Using Genetic Algorithm by Noor Gul, Ijaz Mansoor Qureshi, Atif Elahi, Imtiaz Rasool

“…In cognitive radio network (CRN), secondary users (SUs) try to sense and utilize the vacant spectrum of the legitimate primary user (PU) in an efficient manner. …”
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Communication Skills Health Sciences Studies by Juan Francisco Tejera Concepcion, Miriam Iglesias León, Manuel Cortés Cortés, Gisela Bravo López, Norma Mur Villar, Juan Virgilio López Palacio

“…<strong>Background:</strong> skills, as cognitive-instrumental components of individuals` performance, have been widely studied in the educational field in order to strengthen the specific teaching of Health Sciences, thus teaching students how to establish an appropriate communication. …”
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CONCEPTUAL ASPECTS AND APPLIED MEANS OF STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE RUSSIAN ECONOMY IN TERMS OF EXTERNAL CONSTRAINTS by V. M. Vazagov, M. B. Miroshnichenko

“…The heuristic resources of a number of modern scientific theories: socio-economic transformations, state economic policy, cognitive economics have been used in the research.…”
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Development of a Brief Client Satisfaction and Quality Improvement Tool for Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Programs: Opportunities for Enhancing Client Perspectives by Rachel K. Myers PhD, MS, Hillary M. Kapa MPH, Stephanie M. Garcia MPH, Laura Vega DSW, LCSW, Joel A. Fein MD, MPH

“…Four former adolescent clients and 5 caregivers who received services participated in cognitive interviews to share interpretation of questionnaire items, improvements to response options, comfort responding, and missing topics. …”
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Exercise and exerkines: Mechanisms and roles in anti-aging and disease prevention by Xuan Lu, Ying Chen, Yue Shi, Yi Shi, Xianbin Su, Peijie Chen, Die Wu, Hui Shi

“…Aging is a complex biological process characterized by increased inflammation and susceptibility to various age-related diseases, including cognitive decline, osteoporosis, and type 2 diabetes. …”
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Elderly in the state of co-residence in a town in State Bahia, Brazil by Saulo Sacramento Meira, Alba Benemérita Alves Vilela, Cezar Augusto Casotti, Jorge Costa do Nascimento, Camila Barros Andrade

“…This is a cross-sectional, descriptive and exploratory household survey, by simple random sample, with individuals over 60 years, residents and enrolled in a health unit’s family in Jequié / BA and who has shown no cognitive impairment. Data were collected through a multidimensional question- naire Brazil Old Age Schedule (BOAS), tabulated and analyzed by Epi Info 3.3.2 program. …”
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Compassion and the perceived rarity of plants can increase plant appreciation by Pavol Prokop, Kristína Belzárová, Ivana Tomanová Čergeťová

“…Previous efforts to address Plant Awareness Disparity (PAD) mainly focused on cognitive aspects, neglecting the role of the affective domain. …”
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Scientific Production of Behavioral Movement on Peruvian Indexed Journals: A Bibliointegrated Study by Richard Jhunior Mejia-Velarde, Giuliana Salazar-Alvarez

“…The results are presented by descriptive statistics. It found that cognitive behavioral dominance in empirical and technological research, and interbehavioral and skinnerian in theoretical research. …”
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Mediational Model of Multiple Sclerosis Impairments, Family Needs, and Caregiver Mental Health in Guadalajara, Mexico by Melody N. Mickens, Paul B. Perrin, Adriana Aguayo, Brenda Rabago, Miguel A. Macías-Islas, Juan Carlos Arango-Lasprilla

“…The current study examined the relationships among MS impairments (functional, neurological, cognitive, behavioral, and emotional), unmet family needs (household, informational, financial, social support, and health), and caregiver mental health (satisfaction with life, anxiety, burden, and depression) in a sample of 81 MS caregivers from Guadalajara, Mexico. …”
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Does the household clean energy transition benefit the mental health of the elderly in rural China? Evidence from China health and retirement longitudinal study by Hengxing Yin, Ling Han, Li Yan, Chenhao Liu

“…The findings indicate that the policy significantly improved the cognitive status of the elderly, especially episodic memory, which saw a 10.4% increase relative to the sample mean. …”
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Sorting it Out: Adolescent Refugee’s Perceptions of Food Upon Arrival to the US by Rebecca E. Jones-Antwi, Caroline Owens, Craig Hadley, Solveig A. Cunningham

“…Design: We used methods from cognitive anthropology to assess whether adolescents from different countries share a cultural model of eating behaviors. …”
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Exploring the Therapeutic Benefits of Quranic Verses in Managing Anxiety Associated with Physical Illnesses by Rohollah Saranjam, Ali Massoudifar, Aman Allh Zamani, Fereshteh Jafariyan

“…Conclusions: Spirituality, particularly as taught in the Qur'an, serves as a foundational tool for human tranquility. By integrating cognitive and behavioral strategies, individuals can overcome anxieties arising from material deficiencies. …”
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Pain in Neurodegenerative Disease: Current Knowledge and Future Perspectives by Marina de Tommaso, Lars Arendt-Nielsen, Ruth Defrin, Miriam Kunz, Gisele Pickering, Massimiliano Valeriani

“…The management of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and other dementias, Parkinson’s disease (PD) and PD related disorders, motor neuron diseases (MND), Huntington’s disease (HD), spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA), and spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), is mainly addressed to motor and cognitive impairment, with special care to vital functions as breathing and feeding. …”
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Mental Health and the Intersection of Perceived Discrimination and Social Inequalities Among Students in Germany – a Quantitative Intersectional Study by Laura Pilz González, Enrique Alonso-Perez, Enrique Alonso-Perez, Jennifer Lehnchen, Zita Deptolla, Eileen Heumann, Hürrem Tezcan-Güntekin, Katherina Heinrichs, Christiane Stock, Christiane Stock

“…Depressive symptoms, cognitive stress symptoms, and exhaustion were examined across 48 intersectional strata based on gender, first academic generation, family care tasks, and perceived discrimination.ResultsThe MAIHDA analysis revealed substantial between strata variance, with most of it explained by additive rather than intersectional interaction effects. …”
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Review on dietary supplements as an effective improvement of Alzheimer’s disease: focus on structures and mechanisms by Sheng Li, Yinling Wei, Zhenzhen Liang, Lingli Guo, Xiaojiang Hao, Yu Zhang

“…Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the major form of neurodegenerative diseases that can severely impede normal cognitive function, makes it one of the most common fatal diseases. …”
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