The adaptation and evaluation of psychometric properties of the Lithuanian versions of the Faux Pas Recognition and Strange Stories tests by A. Jasionis, G. Jasionytė, R. Mameniškienė

“…One of the main subdomains of social cognitive functions, Theory of Mind (ToM), involves the ability to understand other people’s thoughts, intentions, emotions, and predict their behaviour. …”
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Hippocampus-sparing volume-modulated arc therapy in patients with World Health Organization grade II glioma: a feasibility study by Renxian Xie, Renxian Xie, Hongxin Huang, Hongxin Huang, Qingxin Cai, Jiayang Lu, Tong Chen, Tong Chen, Keyan Xie, Jianzhou Chen, Chuangzhen Chen

“…BackgroundRadiotherapy can improve the survival rates of patients with glioma; meanwhile, impaired cognitive functions have been brought to the forefront with the offending organ, the radiosensitive hippocampus. …”
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Crossed Non-Dominant Hemisphere Syndrome in a Right-Hander by M. Fujimori, K. Wakisaka, A. Yamadori, T. Imamura, T. Uehara, K. Yamashita, M. Tabuchi

“…We conclude that he has a reversed cerebral laterality of cognitive functions and showed crossed non-dominant hemisphere syndrome.…”
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Verbal fluency and semantic association deficits in children with in birth nonprogressive neuromuscular diseases by Maria Koriakina, Maria Koriakina, Olga E. Agranovich, Ioannis Ntoumanis, Maxim Ulanov, Isak B. Blank, Anna Shestakova, Evgeny Blagovechtchenski

“…Overall, our study supports the concept of embodied cognition, demonstrating that delays in motor skill development among children with OBPP and AMC can harm their cognitive functions.…”
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Non-invasive electroencephalogram-based anesthesiological monitoring in geriatric patients in the ent-surgery by Medhat H. Altoufaili, Tatiana V. Klypa, Irina A. Mandel, Maria S. Orekhova

“…Additional pain management was required in 39% of the patients in Groups А and В along with 42% in Group С, no statistical difference was found between the groups. Cognitive functions were better preserved in Group А with the duration of general anesthesia being more than 120 minutes (p=0.044). …”
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Non-invasive brain stimulation in cognitive sciences and Alzheimer's disease by Claudia Carrarini, Chiara Pappalettera, Chiara Pappalettera, Domenica Le Pera, Paolo Maria Rossini

“…Over the last four decades, non-invasive brain stimulation techniques (NIBS) have significantly gained interest in the fields of cognitive sciences and dementia care, including neurorehabilitation, for its emerging potential in increasing the insights over brain functions and in boosting residual cognitive functions. In the present paper, basic physiological and technical mechanisms and different applications of NIBS were reviewed and discussed to highlight the importance of NIBS in multidisciplinary and translational approaches in clinical and research settings of cognitive sciences and neurodegenerative diseases, especially in Alzheimer's disease. …”
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Sources of Discomfort in Persons with Dementia: Scale and Initial Results by Jiska Cohen-Mansfield, Khin Thein, Marcia S. Marx, Maha Dakheel-Ali, Barbara Jensen

“…The SODS scores were not related to cognitive functioning, and sources of discomfort other than those pertaining to body position were not correlated with pain. …”
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RADAR-AD: assessment of multiple remote monitoring technologies for early detection of Alzheimer’s disease by Manuel Lentzen, Srinivasan Vairavan, Marijn Muurling, Vasilis Alepopoulos, Alankar Atreya, Merce Boada, Casper de Boer, Pauline Conde, Jelena Curcic, Giovanni Frisoni, Samantha Galluzzi, Martha Therese Gjestsen, Mara Gkioka, Margarita Grammatikopoulou, Lucrezia Hausner, Chris Hinds, Ioulietta Lazarou, Alexandre de Mendonça, Spiros Nikolopoulos, Dorota Religa, Gaetano Scebba, Pieter Jelle Visser, Gayle Wittenberg, Vaibhav A. Narayan, Neva Coello, Anna-Katharine Brem, Dag Aarsland, Holger Fröhlich, on behalf of RADAR-AD

“…Remote Monitoring Technologies (RMTs) offer a promising solution for early detection by tracking changes in behavioral and cognitive functions, such as memory, language, and problem-solving skills. …”
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Synaptic Plasticity and Neurological Disorders in Neurotropic Viral Infections by Venkata Subba Rao Atluri, Melissa Hidalgo, Thangavel Samikkannu, Kesava Rao Venkata Kurapati, Madhavan Nair

“…Although these neurotropic viruses are able to be harbored in or infect the nervous system, not all the neurotropic viruses have been reported to cause disrupted synaptic plasticity and impaired cognitive functions. In this review, we have discussed the neurotropic viruses, which play a major role in altered synaptic plasticity and neurological disorders.…”
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Regional hippocampal thinning and gyrification abnormalities and associated cognition in children with prenatal alcohol exposure by Blake A. Gimbel, Jeffrey R. Wozniak, Bryon A. Mueller, Kent A. Tuominen, Abigail M. Ernst, Mary E. Anthony, Erik de Water, the CIFASD, Donovan J. Roediger

“…There were no significant regional hippocampal patterns that were associated with cognitive functioning for individuals in the unexposed comparison group. …”
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Alerting the illusion of smoking improves quality of life in Chinese male cancer survivors by Juan Xia, Peng Wu, Jiwei Wang, Jinming Yu

“…Results Current smokers were reported to have higher scores in social, role, cognitive functioning, and had lower scores in nausea/vomiting, pain, dyspnea, and insomnia (P < 0.05). …”
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Exploration of effects of galvanic vestibular stimulation on circadian rhythms and its associations with sleep and spatial memory in patients with breast cancer: The ICANSLEEP-2 pr... by Melvin Galin, Laura de Girolamo, Bénédicte Clarisse, Carine Segura-Djezzar, Franka Glöckner, Clara Elia, Stéphane Réhel, Patrice Clochon, Franck Doidy, Julien Chavant, Olivier Etard, Fausto Viader, Jean-Michel Grellard, Justine Lequesne, Florence Joly, Francis Eustache, Tristan Martin, Bénédicte Giffard, Gaëlle Quarck, Joy Perrier

“…Given the crucial impact of sleep on cognitive functioning, notably spatial memory, improving sleep of BC patients should enhance their cognitive functioning.…”
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Risiko for bias i retspsykiatriske vurderinger by Susanne Bengtson, Pia Lykke Hjortebjerg

“…Abstract To reach better-informed decisions about psycho-legal issues, courts in Denmark and other countries request psychiatric and psychological expertise opinions on emotional, behavioral, and/or cognitive functioning of charged individuals and on court sentencing for convicts. …”
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Brain Plasticity and Cell Competition: Immediate Early Genes Are the Focus by Pavel P. Tregub, Yulia K. Komleva, Maria V. Kukla, Anton S. Averchuk, Anna S. Vetchinova, Natalia A. Rozanova, Sergey N. Illarioshkin, Alla B. Salmina

“…Brain plasticity is at the basis of many cognitive functions, including learning and memory. It includes several mechanisms of synaptic and extrasynaptic changes, neurogenesis, and the formation and elimination of synapses. …”
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The Possible Contribution of the Amygdala to Memory by R. Babinsky, P. Calabrese, H. F. Durwen, H. J. Markowitsch, D. Brechtelsbauer, L. Heuser, W. Gehlen

“…Neuropsychological investigation demonstrated preserved intelligence, intact general memory and several other undisturbed cognitive functions, but a specific, affect-related, memory disorder. …”
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Vulnerability for alcohol use disorder after adverse childhood experiences (AUDACE): protocol for a longitudinal fMRI study assessing neuropsychobiological risk factors for relapse by Falk Kiefer, Cagdas Türkmen, Noah Machunze, Haoye Tan, Sarah Gerhardt, Sabine Vollstädt-Klein

“…Emotion processing, stress sensitivity, cue reactivity and cognitive functioning will be assessed using task-based functional MRI (fMRI). …”
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The impact of the interaction between BDNF rs7103411 gene polymorphism and social activities on mild cognitive impairment in community-dwelling elderly adults by Zhenkun Tan, Junjiao Ping, Ying Zhang, Chuijia Kong, Jiali Luo, Xinxia Liu

“…We assessed their cognitive functions and analyzed their genotypes and serum BDNF levels. …”
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Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome following Small Bowel Obstruction by Shoumitro Deb, Richard Law-Min, David Fearnley

“…Within a few months of treatment with a daily oral dose of thiamine 200 mgs supplemented by multivitamins the patient showed subjective evidence of improvement in confusion, confabulation, and anterograde amnesia, although objective tests showed residual deficits in many areas of cognitive functioning, including immediate and delayed recall of verbal and non-verbal materials, planning and switching of attention.…”
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Gal-3 activates Tyro3 to ameliorate ferroptosis of hippocampal neurons after traumatic brain injury by Xiao Zhang, Manrui Li, Yang Xu, Jingting Wu, Ruixuan Yuan, Yihan Sun, Xiaogang Chen, Meili Lv, Bo Jin, Xiameng Chen, Weibo Liang

“…Moreover, treatment with the Tyro3 agonist Gal-3 conferred protective effects, improving both motor and cognitive functions through Tyro3 activation. These results highlight Tyro3 as a promising therapeutic target for TBI.…”
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MicroRNAs in Vertebrate Synapse Development by Roberto Fiore, Gerhard Schratt

“…This review will summarize the recent examples that describe a function of microRNAs in synapse formation, plasticity, and disease, and discuss future directions that promise to shed light on microRNA regulation by synaptic activity and microRNA function in higher cognitive functions, such as learning and memory.…”
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