August 13, 2024 by King’s College London Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainNew research from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London and City University of New York suggests that the cognitive difficulties associated with childhood maltreatment, and particularly neglect, have been grossly underestimated in previous studies. The research, published in Lancet...
August 1, 2024 by University of Oxford Prediction of cognitive, psychiatric, and fatigue outcomes at two to three years after COVID-19 by symptom burden at six months. Credit: The Lancet Psychiatry (2024). DOI: 10.1016/S2215-0366(24)00214-1Many people who were hospitalized with COVID-19 continue to have cognitive and psychiatric problems even two to three years post-infection, according to...
by Sofia Barbosa Boucas, The Conversation Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Do you find that you daydream a lot? Are you often sluggish and tend to disengage easily when doing a task? You might have cognitive disengagement syndrome, or CDS. CDS was first described by psychologists in the 1960s and 1970s when they noticed that some...
NEWS RELEASE 5-JUL-2024 The study, published in Nature Communications, analysed data from 32,000 adults aged 50 or over from 14 European countries who responded to surveys over 10 years. Peer-Reviewed PublicationUNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON Smoking may be among the most important lifestyle factors affecting how quickly our cognitive skills decline as we age, suggests a new...
WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE IMAGE: SYNAPSES ARE COMPOSED OF PRESYNAPTIC AND POSTSYNAPTIC TERMINALS (BLUE) AND ARE CONTACTED BY ASTROCYTES (PURPLE), A CRUCIAL NON-NEURONAL CELL TYPE. DEMENTIA-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN BUILDUP IN ASTROCYTES CAUSES ABNORMAL RELEASE OF IMMUNE FACTORS (ORANGE) THAT DISTURB PRESYNAPTIC FUNCTION AND CAUSE NEURONAL HYPERACTIVITY AND COGNITIVE DECLINE IN MICE CREDIT: ORIGINAL 3D BY BROKENGRID People...
As busy people, we juggle many tasks, keep many balls in the air, and try to avoid letting anything drop. In class, instructors toss out ideas; sometimes they go over our heads, but other times we grasp them quickly. The sentences above contain familiar metaphors, sometimes called clichés: common words or phrases borrowed from physical...
by Jim Fessenden, University of Massachusetts Medical School Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A clinical trial of 125 young adults shows that those who limited screen time for 48 hours immediately after suffering a concussion had a significantly shorter duration of symptoms than those who were permitted screen time. These findings, published in JAMA Pediatrics, offer the first...
Gum disease, especially the kind that is irreversible and causes tooth loss, may be associated with mild cognitive impairment and dementia 20 years later, according to a study published in the July 29, 2020, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. “We looked at people’s dental health over a...
by Columbia University Irving Medical Center A new meta-analysis of 24 observational studies from researchers at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons found that delirium may cause significant long-term cognitive decline. The findings were published in JAMA Neurology. Delirium is the most common surgical complication in adults older than 65. It is also...
Hearing is widely thought to be the last sense to go in the dying process. Now UBC researchers have evidence that some people may still be able to hear while in an unresponsive state at the end of their life. This research, published recently in Scientific Reports, is the first to investigate hearing in humans...
