Dysregulated C1q and CD47 in the aging monkey brain: association with myelin damage, microglia reactivity, and cognitive decline by Sarah A. DeVries, Christina Dimovasili, Maria Medalla, Maria Medalla, Tara L. Moore, Tara L. Moore, Douglas L. Rosene, Douglas L. Rosene

“…Normal aging, though lacking widespread neurodegeneration, is nevertheless characterized by cognitive impairment in learning, memory, and executive function. The aged brain is spared from neuron loss, but white matter is lost and damage to myelin sheaths accumulates. …”
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Resting-State Functional MRI in Dyslexia: A Systematic Review by Bruce Martins, Isabel A. B. Verrone, Mariana M. I. Sakamoto, Mariana Y. Baba, Melissa E. Yvata, Katerina Lukasova, Mariana P. Nucci

“…Increased and decreased connectivity in various regions related to executive function, language, and salience processing indicate that broader cognitive mechanisms play a key role in reading performance.…”
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Impact of General Anesthesia and Antioxidants on Cognitive, Static and Locomotor Functions During Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy by V. V. Moroz, V. T. Dolgikh, S. A. Karpitskaya

“…Neuropsychological testing revealed postoperative cognitive dysfunction on standard therapy which included impaired attention and concentration, executive function, memory, speech, visual constructional skills, abstract thinking, counting, and orientation (21 points on the MoCA scale versus 28–30 points for normal). …”
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Cerebellar-cerebral circuits functional connectivity in patients with cognitive impairment after basal ganglia stroke: a pilot study by Lijun Zuo, Xinlong Lan, Yijun Zhou, Hao Liu, Yang Hu, Yongjun Wang, Yongjun Wang, Tao Liu, Zixiao Li, Zixiao Li

“…Conversely, decreased FC was identified between the bilateral cerebellum IX and the right caudal cuneus, which negatively correlated with episodic memory, language, and attention but positively correlated with executive function. Additionally, increased FC between the bilateral cerebellum VI and the bilateral inferior parietal lobule was associated with improvements in episodic memory, language, and attention. …”
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iKids study protocol: a longitudinal study to understand the impact of interactive electronic devices on the development and health of young children in England by Jenny Retzler, Daniel Jones, John J Reilly, John Stephenson, Stuart Fairclough, Christine Smith, Amy Hughes, Tony Okely, Liane Beretta De Azevedo, João Paulo de Aguiar Greca, Colette Marr

“…However, concerns exist regarding their potential negative impacts on children’s self-regulation, parent-child interaction and physical activity.The primary aim of this study is to understand the longitudinal impact of IED use, in particular duration (hours per day) and mode (educational vs non-educational; age-appropriate vs non-age-appropriate), on emerging abilities (ie, self-regulation, social development, executive function, language and numeracy) in 3-year-old to 5-year-old children. …”
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Associations of accelerometer-measured physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and sleep with next-day cognitive performance in older adults: a micro-longitudinal study by Mikaela Bloomberg, Laura Brocklebank, Aiden Doherty, Mark Hamer, Andrew Steptoe

“…Methods British adults aged 50-83 years (N = 76) without evidence of cognitive impairment or dementia wore accelerometers for eight days, and took daily cognitive tests of attention, memory, psychomotor speed, executive function, and processing speed. Physical behaviour (time spent in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity [MVPA], light physical activity [LPA], and sedentary behaviour [SB]) and sleep characteristics (overnight sleep duration, time spent in rapid eye movement [REM] sleep and slow wave sleep [SWS]) were extracted from accelerometers, with sleep stages derived using a novel polysomnography-validated machine learning algorithm. …”
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The Impact of Inorganic Nitrate-Rich Beetroot Juice on Microvascular Blood Flow, Cognitive Function, and Other Hemodynamic Outcomes in Postmenopausal Women by Begum Celik, Jeremy Spencer, Daniel Lamport, Noa Argomaniz, Charlotte Mills

“…Cognitive tasks (episodic memory: Rey auditory verbal learning test; executive function: Stroop task, digit span backward and forward) and microvascular function (Laser Doppler Imaging (LDI) with iontophoresis; endothelium-independent and -dependent) were measured in participants before and 2.5 h after ingestion of the intervention. …”
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Continuing education for the prevention of mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s-type dementia: a systematic review and overview of systematic reviews by Nina Matyas, Filiz Keser Aschenberger, Gernot Wagner, Stefanie Auer, Christoph Gisinger, Monika Kil, Irma Klerings

“…Episodic memory, working memory and executive function did not differ significantly between groups. …”
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Mediating role of Interleukin-6 in the predictive association of diabetes with Hippocampus atrophy, Amyloid, Tau, and Neurofilament pathology at pre-clinical stages of diabetes-rel... by Asma Hallab, Sid E. O'Bryant, Kristine Yaffe, Arthur Toga, Robert Rissman, Leigh Johnson, Meredith Braskie, Kevin King, James R. Hall, Melissa Petersen, Raymond Palmer, Robert Barber, Yonggang Shi, Fan Zhang, Rajesh Nandy, Roderick McColl, David Mason, Bradley Christian, Nicole Phillips, Stephanie Large, Joe Lee, Badri Vardarajan, Monica Rivera Mindt, Amrita Cheema, Lisa Barnes, Mark Mapstone, Annie Cohen, Amy Kind, Ozioma Okonkwo, Raul Vintimilla, Zhengyang Zhou, Michael Donohue, Rema Raman, Matthew Borzage, Michelle Mielke, Beau Ances, Ganesh Babulal, Jorge Llibre-Guerra, Carl Hill, Rocky Vig

“…Results: T2DM and IL-6 were associated with worse executive function, Hippocampus atrophy, lower Aß42/Aß40 ratio, and higher Aß40, Aß42, total Tau, and NfL levels. …”
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The impact of physical exercise interventions on social, behavioral, and motor skills in children with autism: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials by YanAn Wang, Guoping Qian, Sujie Mao, Shikun Zhang

“…BackgroundAutism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by social impairments, sensory processing issues, repetitive behavior patterns, motor abnormalities, and executive function impairments.ObjectiveTo systematically review and meta-analyze the effects of various exercise modalities on flexibility and cognitive control, social skills, behavioral problems, motor skills, and coordination in children with ASD, providing scientific evidence for clinical practice to guide effective exercise interventions for children with ASD.MethodsLiterature searches were conducted in PubMed, EMbase, Cochrane Library, EBSCOhost, and Web of Science databases, covering the period from database inception to February 15, 2024. …”
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Cognitive deficits in multiple sclerosis: a systematic review Déficits cognitivos na esclerose múltipla: uma revisão sistemática by Maria Lúcia Brito Ferreira

“…RESULTS: There is consensus on cognitive impairment of multiple sclerosis patients, especially on memory, speed processing, executive function, attention and concentration domains. …”
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Resting-State Functional MRI Reveals Altered Seed-Based Connectivity in Diabetic Osteoporosis Patients by Li J, Liu M, Qin J, An Y, Zheng X, Mohamad NS, Ramli I

“…These alterations correlated with deficits in visual processing, working memory, and executive function.Conclusion: Distinct FC reorganization in DOP patients reflects synergistic effects of metabolic and skeletal pathologies on neural networks, potentially mediating cognitive decline through visual pathway disruption and prefrontal-default mode network decoupling. …”
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The impact of pituitary adenomas on cognitive performance: a systematic review by Ting-Chia Young, Kai-Yen Lin, Wan-Cheng Li, Chi-Ning Huang, Wen-Hsuan Tsai

“…Across the various PA subtypes, a consistent decline in discrete cognitive domains was observed, most notably in memory and executive function. Treatment-related data were provided in 59 studies. …”
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Associations between sleep quality, plasma neurofilament light, and cognition in older adults without dementia by Hai-Hua Guo, Dong-Xin Liang, Qun Zhang, Yan Fu, Liang-Yu Huang, Ze-Hu Sheng, Lan Tan, Zuo-Teng Wang

“…Baseline and follow-up demographics, sleep indices, plasma NFL levels, and cognition scores (including Mini-Mental State Examination [MMSE], Montreal Cognitive Assessment [MoCA], Alzheimer’s Disease Assessment Scale-Cognitive Subscale [ADAS13], Clinical Dementia Rating Scale-Sum of Boxes [CDRSB], Executive Function [EF], Language [LAN], and Memory [MEM]) were also collected. …”
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Psychotic relapse prediction via biomarker monitoring: a systematic review by Alexandros Smyrnis, Christos Theleritis, Christos Theleritis, Panagiotis Ferentinos, Nikolaos Smyrnis, Nikolaos Smyrnis

“…After exclusion of studies related to the distinction of patients from controls or treatment effects, the 42 remaining studies were divided into 5 groups, based on the type of biomarker used as a predictor: the genetic biomarker subgroup (n = 4, or 9%), the blood-based biomarker subgroup (n = 15, or 36%), the neuroimaging biomarker subgroup (n = 10, or 24%), the cognitive-behavioral biomarker subgroup (n = 5, or 12%) and the wearables biomarker subgroup (n = 8, or 19%).ResultsIn the first 4 groups, several factors were found to correlate with the state of relapse, such as the genetic risk profile, Interleukin-6, Vitamin D or panels consisting of multiple markers (blood-based), ventricular volume, grey matter volume in the right hippocampus, various functional connectivity metrics (neuroimaging), working memory and executive function (cognition). In the wearables group, machine learning models were trained based on features such as heart rate, acceleration, and geolocation, which were measured continuously. …”
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Post-stroke outcome prediction based on lesion-derived features by Maedeh Khalilian, Olivier Godefroy, Martine Roussel, Amir Mousavi, Ardalan Aarabi

“…In the case of executive function and processing speed, the highest R2 values were 0.58 and 0.64, achieved with tSDM thresholds of 0.3 and 0.5, respectively. …”
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Validation of the Chinese version of Brief Assessment of Cognition in Schizophrenia by Wang LJ, Lin PY, Lee Y, Huang YC, Hsu ST, Hung CF, Chen CK, Chen YC, Wang YL, Tsai MC

“…Furthermore, all BACS subtests (verbal memory, working memory, motor speed, verbal fluency, attention and processing speed, and executive function) significantly differentiated patients with schizophrenia from healthy controls (P<0.001), and the BACS composite score had the best discriminative validity (P<0.001). …”
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Dynamin-1 is a potential mediator in cancer-related cognitive impairment by Ding Quan Ng, Casey Hudson, Tracy Nguyen, Sukesh Kumar Gupta, Yong Qin Koh, Munjal M. Acharya, Alexandre Chan

“…Dynamin-1 (DNM1) is crucial for synaptic activity, neurotransmission, and associative memory, positioning it as a potential biomarker of cancer-related cognitive impairment (CRCI), a neurological consequence of cancer treatment characterized by memory loss, poor concentration, and impaired executive function. Through a stepwise approach, this study investigated the role of DNM1 in CRCI pathogenesis, incorporating both human data and animal models. …”
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Cognitive and motor disturbances in depression: insights from comprehensive behavioral assessments by Ioanna Douka, Marit F. L. Ruitenberg, Marit F. L. Ruitenberg, Kamile Weischedel, Carlos Phouthavongsay, Sara L. Weisenbach, Jos N. van der Geest, Brian J. Mickey, Vincent Koppelmans

“…However, comprehensive assessments of cognitive and motor domains in the same depression sample are rare.MethodsThis pilot study compared 20 depressed patients and 22 controls across multiple tests of cognitive and motor functions. We examined executive function and processing speed (Symbol Digit Modalities Test (SDMT), D-KEFS Color-Word Interference Test), verbal and visual learning and memory (Hopkins Verbal Learning Test (HVLT-R), and Brief Visuospatial Test (BVMT-R), gait (2-minute walking, 4-meter walking and walking while talking (WWT) tests), sarcopenia (grip strength ftest, knee extension test), and fine motor function (Archimedes Spiral Test, 9 Hole Peg Test). …”
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Local gyrification index and sulcal depth as imaging markers of cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s disease by Yongsik Sim, Changmin Seo, Young-gun Lee, Byoung Seok Ye, Ilwoo Lyu, Ilwoo Lyu, Beomseok Sohn

“…Among those, SD and LGI in the parahippocampal and fusiform gyri had positive correlations with MMSE. For executive function, SD showed correlations in the left inferior frontal and orbitofrontal gyrus. …”
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