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Clinical Neurology
Bernice J. A. Gulpers, Frans R. J. Verhey, Simone J. P. M. Eussen, Miranda T. Schram, Bastiaan E. de Galan, Martin P. J. van Boxtel, Coen D. A. Stehouwer, S. Kohler
Summary: This study investigates the relationship between individual anxiety disorders, generalized anxiety symptoms, and multiple cognitive domains. The results show that agoraphobia is associated with worse scores on all cognitive domains and higher odds of cognitive impairment. High scores on the Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-item scale (GAD-7) are associated with worse scores on processing speed and higher odds of cognitive impairment. Panic disorder is significantly associated with worse scores on memory tasks. These associations are stronger in younger participants and in those with type 2 diabetes.
JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS
(2022)
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
Christopher Papandreou, Christos Papagiannopoulos, Myrto Koutsonida, Afroditi Kanellopoulou, Georgios Markozannes, Georgios Polychronidis, Andreas G. Tzakos, Georgios A. Fragkiadakis, Evangelos Evangelou, Evangelia Ntzani, Ioanna Tzoulaki, Eleni Aretouli, Konstantinos K. Tsilidis
Summary: This study aimed to generate a metabolite profile for adherence to the Mediterranean diet (MedDiet) and evaluate its association with cognitive performance. The study found that in a middle-aged Mediterranean population, the metabolite profile related to adherence to the MedDiet was not associated with cognitive test results.
CLINICAL NUTRITION
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Abraham D. Killanin, Christine M. Embury, Giorgia Picci, Elizabeth Heinrichs-Graham, Yu-Ping Wang, Vince D. Calhoun, Julia M. Stephen, Tony W. Wilson
Summary: Childhood trauma may impact cognitive development and neural activity related to working memory, particularly in females. This study, using magnetoencephalography, found that younger females with higher trauma levels performed the worst in a verbal working memory task and had stronger positive correlations with age. Furthermore, females with higher childhood trauma exhibited altered alpha wave changes in specific brain regions.
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Sport Sciences
Vera Nina Looser, Sebastian Ludyga, Markus Gerber
Summary: Young adulthood is a demanding phase with high levels of stress, but cardiorespiratory fitness can have a protective effect on working memory maintenance. Heart rate variability (HRV) is linked to cognitive function and stress. This study examines the role of resting HRV as a mediator between chronic stress, cardiorespiratory fitness, and working memory maintenance in young adults.
SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF MEDICINE & SCIENCE IN SPORTS
(2023)
Review
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Chen Zhu, Natalie Thomas, Shalini Arunogiri, Caroline Gurvich
Summary: This review examines the relationships between cognition, menopausal symptoms, and risk/protective factors. The findings suggest that factors associated with cognition and menopausal symptoms can be categorized into demographic, socio-economic, lifestyle, and reproductive factors.
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Psychology, Developmental
Tochukwu Nweze, Mary Basil Nwoke, Juliet Ifeoma Nwufo, Richard Ikechukwu Aniekwu, Florian Lange
Summary: The study found that parentally deprived children in Nigeria performed significantly better in working memory tasks compared to nondeprived control group, while there was no significant difference in set-shifting and inhibition tasks. This suggests that underprivileged children may have enhanced cognitive abilities in certain domains under harsh environments.
JOURNAL OF CHILD PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY
(2021)
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Ruijia Chen, David R. Williams, Kristen Nishimi, Natalie Slopen, Laura D. Kubzansky, Jennifer Weuve
Summary: This study found that cumulative stress exposure is associated with poorer cognitive function and faster cognitive decline. Both high stress in childhood and adulthood were linked to lower executive function and episodic memory. However, there was little evidence to suggest that the rate of decline in cognitive function differed across levels of stress exposure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE
(2022)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Juan Angel Carrillo, Raul Arcusa, Maria Pilar Zafrilla, Javier Marhuenda
Summary: The study involving 108 healthy volunteers over a 16-week consumption period showed significant improvements in cognitive function by consuming a micronized fruit and vegetable-based preparation, particularly in areas such as short-term memory, verbal and non-verbal memory.
Article
Psychology, Educational
Nadia Chernyak, Paul L. Harris, Sara Cordes
Summary: Recent work has examined the developmental mechanisms that promote fair sharing and found that number knowledge is associated with fair sharing, even after controlling for other factors and age. Additionally, a counting intervention has been shown to improve children's sharing behavior.
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Arne Stinchcombe, Nicole G. Hammond
Summary: This study examined the relationship between proxy measures of minority stress and cognitive health in a large sample of Canadians aged 45-85 years. The results showed that demographic and health variables were associated with cognitive performance, and racial minority status was consistently associated with lower cognitive performance. These findings help identify risk factors for cognitive decline and promote health equity.
JOURNALS OF GERONTOLOGY SERIES B-PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Chenxi Zhao, Chenglei Zhao, Minmin Zhao, Lin Wang, Jiawei Guo, Longhai Zhang, Yunfeng Li, Yuliang Sun, Ling Zhang, Zheng'ao Li, Wenfei Zhu
Summary: This study investigated the effects of exergaming on cognitive function in Chinese older adults and found that long-term exergame training can improve working memory in older adults. Both exergame and aerobic dancing can efficiently improve inhibitory control of executive function in older adults.
Article
Developmental Biology
Joshua S. Rodefer, Sarah C. Maitland
Summary: This study found that early exposure to nicotine during adolescence may affect behavioral cognition in adulthood in rodents. The effects include changes in working memory, reversal problems in the attentional set-shifting task, and anxiety-related behaviors.
DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOBIOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Agriculture, Dairy & Animal Science
Maike Foraita, Tiffani Howell, Pauleen Bennett
Summary: Research has shown that cognitive traits are important for success in working dogs, and these traits may develop early in young puppies. Testing young puppies on cognitive tasks is a first step in using puppy cognition as a possible predictor for success as working dogs, as demonstrated in this study with puppies sourced from Vision Australia.
APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR SCIENCE
(2021)
Review
Oncology
Renato Gondar, Gildas Patet, Karl Schaller, Torstein R. Meling
Summary: Assessment of cognition in brain tumor care is often overlooked in clinical outcomes, leading to potentially underestimated impact on patients' quality of life. Treatment for meningiomas can have early cognitive effects, but long-term conclusions are limited by short follow-up times. Standardized and reproducible cognitive testing should be a focus of future research to better understand the cognitive outcomes in meningioma patients, as cognitive dimensions and quality of life may be undervalued in clinical assessments.
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Annalise A. LaPlume, Nicole D. Anderson, Larissa McKetton, Brian Levine, Angela K. Troyer
Summary: The study found that cognitive performance gradually declines in adulthood, with a shift to rapid decline around the age of 60. Variability between individuals and within tasks also increases gradually until around age 60, then rapidly increases. Some individuals show less cognitive decline than others, and some cognitive abilities have less within-person decline than others.
JOURNALS OF GERONTOLOGY SERIES B-PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Kaoru Nashiro, Shuo Qin, Margaret A. O'Connell, Chandramallika Basak
Article
Neurosciences
Amy Berglund-Barraza, Fenghua Tian, Chandramalika Basak, Julia L. Evans
FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE
(2019)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Shuo Qin, Chandramallika Basak
Article
Neurosciences
Shuo Qin, Chandramallika Basak
FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE
(2020)
Article
Neurosciences
Amy Berglund-Barraza, Fenghua Tian, Chandramallika Basak, John Hart, Julia L. Evans
FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE
(2020)
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Shuo Qin, Chandramallika Basak
Summary: This study revealed that arterial elasticity and physical fitness have separate effects on working memory capacity in older adults, with arterial elasticity completely mediating the relationship between fitness and working memory capacity.
JOURNALS OF GERONTOLOGY SERIES B-PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Evan T. Smith, James C. Bartlett, Daniel C. Krawczyk, Chandramallika Basak
Summary: Chess experts show exceptional recall of chessboards even when disrupted, performing better than novices, indicating a generalized expertise effect. Familiar stimuli confer a memory advantage for both experts and novices, with experts showing superior memory discriminability for both chess-specific and novel stimuli, especially for spatial changes. The expertise advantage is driven by enhanced selective attention to spatial features, but is dependent on the presence of the 8 x 8 chessboard display.
MEMORY & COGNITION
(2021)
Correction
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Shuo Qin, Chandramallika Basak
JOURNALS OF GERONTOLOGY SERIES B-PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Shuo Qin, Chandramallika Basak
Summary: This study found that cardiovascular risk factors, such as arterial stiffness and physical fitness, have effects on the default mode network (DMN) activation patterns in older adults. These risk factors independently contribute to worse task performance and reduced DMN deactivations. Arterial stiffness moderates the relationship between physical fitness and task accuracy, and also drives the combined effects on performance and anterior DMN deactivations. Additionally, physical fitness contributes to the posterior DMN deactivation during executive functioning.
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Evan T. T. Smith, Paulina Skolasinska, Shuo Qin, Andrew Sun, Paul Fishwick, Denise C. C. Park, Chandramallika Basak
Summary: Investigating methods of addressing cognitive loss later in life is crucial. This study found that verbal episodic memory and the volume of the left inferior frontal gyrus were predictors of learning rates on a gamified working memory updating task. Additionally, daily predictors such as mood, stress, busyness, and hours of sleep had meaningful influences on task performance, though the specific patterns varied between individuals.
FRONTIERS IN AGING NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Paulina Skolasinska, Chandramallika Basak, Shuo Qin
Summary: While there is extensive literature on the beneficial effects of physical activity on cognitive control in aging, limited research has compared the contributions of strenuous physical activity (sPA) and cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) on blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) signals during cognitive control. This study investigated BOLD signal differences between high-fit and low-fit older adults, based on their sPA or CRF levels. The findings suggest that physical fitness plays a crucial role in age-related changes in BOLD signal modulation during cognitive control, with higher fitness levels contributing to maintenance of task-related brain activations and compensatory overactivations.
Correction
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Evan T. Smith, Bhargavi Bhaskar, Alex Hinerman, Chandramallika Basak
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Evan T. Smith, Bhargavi Bhaskar, Alex Hinerman, Chandramallika Basak
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2020)
Article
Gerontology
Chandramallika Basak, Shuo Qin, Margaret A. O'Connell
PSYCHOLOGY AND AGING
(2020)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Chandramallika Basak, Shuo Qin, Kaoru Nashiro, Margaret A. O'Connell