The Impact of Care Upon Alzheimer Patient’s Family Caregiver in Sulaimani City by Farida Abdulqadir Tahir

“…Family Care giving for relatives with Alzheimer, often includes assisting them with one or more activities of daily living, as Alzheimer is one of the progressive impairment diseases in patient’s physical and cognitive ability. The aim of this study is to assess the effect of being a family caregiver of Alzheimer patients in Sulaimani city. …”
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Cash transfer, maternal and child health outcomes: a scoping review in sub-Saharan Africa by Emery L. Ngamasana, Jessamyn Moxie

“…Across all categories of reported measures, evidence emerges that cash transfer programmes improved some health outcomes (e.g. improved infant and child survival, reduced incidence of illnesses, improved cognitive and motor development, improved general health, delayed sexual debut, lower transactional sex, etc.), while in some of the studies, outcomes such as depression did not show significant improvements. …”
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Pakanta in the Lithuanian Worldview by Irena Smetonienė

“…The study leads to the conclusion that the cognitive definition of pakanta includes patience, self-control, respect. …”
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Urgent care for patients with dementia: a scoping review of associated factors and stakeholder experiences by Rebecca Barnes, Penny Xanthopoulou, Jemima Dooley, Matthew Booker

“…Objectives People with dementia are more vulnerable to complications in urgent health situations due to older age, increased comorbidity, higher dependency on others and cognitive impairment. This review explored the factors associated with urgent care use in dementia and the experiences of people with dementia, informal carers and professionals.Design Scoping review. …”
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Psychological impacts of "screen time" and "green time" for children and adolescents: A systematic scoping review. by Tassia K Oswald, Alice R Rumbold, Sophie G E Kedzior, Vivienne M Moore

“…The aim of this systematic scoping review was to collate evidence assessing associations between screen time, green time, and psychological outcomes (including mental health, cognitive functioning, and academic achievement) for young children (<5 years), schoolchildren (5-11 years), early adolescents (12-14 years), and older adolescents (15-18 years). …”
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Price Linkage Rumors in the Stock Market and Investor Risk Contagion on Bilayer-Coupled Networks by Yue Dong, Jiepeng Wang, Tingqiang Chen

“…Investor heterogeneities include investor risk preference, investor risk cognitive level, information value, and investor influence. …”
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The role of the knowledge elite in the development of cross-border cooperation and the culture of peace in the Balkans by Mitrović Dragana, Veličković Dunja Z., Mitrović Ljubiša R.

“…The focus is on the problematization of the thesis on the role of the new intellectual diaspora from the Balkans, which is an integral part of the global transnational actors of social changes in modern times and whose cognitive, innovative, and social capital, through the process of return mobility (circular migrations of knowledge elites), can contribute to faster local, national, and regional development. …”
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A Novel Semi-Supervised Learning Method Based on Fast Search and Density Peaks by Fei Gao, Teng Huang, Jinping Sun, Amir Hussain, Erfu Yang, Huiyu Zhou

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The impact of information sources on COVID-19 vaccination intentions among pre-service life sciences teachers in South Africa: A cross-sectional study by Lindelani MNGUNI, Moleboheng RAMULUMO

“…Discussion: The study underscores the complex relationship between information sources, cognitive processes, and behavioral intentions in the context of health literacy among pre-service Life Sciences teachers. …”
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Leader’s management decision-making style and emotional intelligence of higher education students studying in the speciality “Law Enforcement” by S. V. Kharchenko, O. V. Koldashov

“…Leadership qualities are a complex set of cognitive properties, personal qualities and behavioural skills. …”
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Eccentric indices based QSPR evaluation of drugs for schizophrenia treatment by Muneeba Mansha, Sarfraz Ahmad, Zahid Raza

“…Although symptoms of schizophrenia can vary from person to person, they typically fall into three main categories: cognitive, negative, and psychotic. Creating computational tools to find and develop drugs for schizophrenia has more interest in the past few years. …”
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Deep brain stimulation of the anterior cingulate cortex reduces opioid addiction in preclinical studies by Mahdi Fatemizadeh, Esmail Riahi, Gholamreza Hassanzadeh, Anahita Torkaman-Boutorabi, Forough Radfar, Maryam Farahmandfar

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A randomized controlled study of auricular point acupressure to manage chemotherapy-induced neuropathy: Study protocol. by Nada Lukkahatai, Michael V Nguyen, Jingyu Zhang, Yu-Min Cho, Chitchanok Benjasirisan, Heijingzi Monica Jia, Claudia M Campbell, Jennifer Kawi, Hulin Wu, Hongyu Wang, Rupsikha Bora, Johannes Thrul, Constance M Johnson, Thomas J Smith

“…Secondary outcomes include evaluating pain sensory thresholds, motor and cognitive functioning, inflammatory signaling, brain connectivity, opioid use, and quality of life. …”
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A pooled analysis of the side effects of non-invasive Transcutaneous Auricular Vagus Nerve Stimulation (taVNS) by Manon Giraudier, Carlos Ventura-Bort, Christoph Szeska, Mathias Weymar, Mathias Weymar

“…IntroductionTranscutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) is a promising technique for modulating vagal afferent fibers non-invasively and has shown therapeutic potential in neurological, cognitive, and affective disorders. While previous research highlights its efficacy, the safety profile of taVNS has been less extensively examined.MethodsThis study therefore aimed to systematically investigate side effects of taVNS in a large pooled dataset consisting of n = 488 participants, utilizing a standardized questionnaire to assess ten reported side effects. …”
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Data quality in centenarian research: The proxy-centenarian relationship and item nonresponse in the SWISS100 study. by Daniele Zaccaria, Justine Falciola, Barbara Masotti, Armin von Gunten, François Herrmann, Daniela S Jopp, Stefano Cavalli

“…Given potential health and cognitive impairments and the difficulty of retrieving accurate self-reported data, involving individuals knowledgeable of the target person as proxy respondents are an invaluable solution. …”
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Early career teachers’ social and emotional competencies, self-efficacy and burnout: a mediation model by Ivana Pikić Jugović, Iris Marušić, Jelena Matić Bojić

“…Structural equation modelling was implemented to test models of hypothesised relations for the overall burnout as a dependent variable and for each burnout dimension: exhaustion, mental distance, cognitive impairment, and emotional impairment. Tested models singled out self-management and social awareness as two social and emotional competencies that are, along with teacher self-efficacy, particularly predictive of burnout. …”
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Impact of Psychosocial Factors on Quality of Life: A Case Study of End Stage Renal Disease by Iqra Nazar, Dr. Fatima Kamran, Dr. Rafia Rafique, Dr. Ghulam Ishaq

“…The intervention plan comprised of psychoeducation, cost and benefit analysis, coping statements, role playing technique, religious coping anger management, attention strategy technique, baseline chart and ABC model of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). The intervention plan showed significant improvement in managing psychosocial targeted areas. …”
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A Hybrid Approach for Sports Activity Recognition Using Key Body Descriptors and Hybrid Deep Learning Classifier by Muhammad Tayyab, Sulaiman Abdullah Alateyah, Mohammed Alnusayri, Mohammed Alatiyyah, Dina Abdulaziz AlHammadi, Ahmad Jalal, Hui Liu

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The use of dance to improve the health and wellbeing of older adults: A global scoping review of research trials. by Martha Waugh, Gregory Youdan, Courtney Casale, Rachel Balaban, Emily S Cross, Dafna Merom

“…Less than 40% of health assessments showed positive change, with more consistent benefits to physical endurance, strength, and function, moderate impacts on psychosocial health, and limited benefits to cognitive and brain health, and falls and falls risk.…”
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I tweet, therefore I am: a systematic review on social media use and disorders of the social brain by Nancy Yang, Bernard Crespi

“…What implications do these recent changes have for socio-cognitive phenotypes and mental disorders? We have conducted a systematic review on the relationships between social media use and mental disorders involving the social brain. …”
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