Cognitive deficits in patients with mild to moderate traumatic brain injury by Eliane Correa Miotto, Fernanda Zanetti Cinalli, Valéria Trunkl Serrao, Glaucia Guerra Benute, Mara Cristina Souza Lucia, Milberto Scaff

“…Cognitive deficits reported in the literature after moderate to severe TBI include memory, language, executive functions, attention and information processing speed impairments. …”
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Effectiveness of a multicomponent intervention to promote physical activity during the school day: rationale and methods of the MOVESCHOOL study by Francisco J. Bandera-Campos, Francisco J. Bandera-Campos, Alberto Grao-Cruces, Alberto Grao-Cruces, Daniel Camiletti-Moirón, Daniel Camiletti-Moirón, Fátima Martín-Acosta, Fátima Martín-Acosta, Raúl Muñoz-González, María González-Pérez, María González-Pérez, Abel Ruiz-Hermosa, Abel Ruiz-Hermosa, Miguel Vaquero-Solís, Miguel Vaquero-Solís, Carmen Padilla-Moledo, Carmen Padilla-Moledo, David Sánchez-Oliva, David Sánchez-Oliva, David Sánchez-Oliva

“…Primary outcomes included accelerometer-based PA and sedentary time, health-related physical fitness, academic indicators, and executive functions. For statistical analyses, descriptive, correlational, regression, and repeated measures ANOVA analyses will be applied. …”
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Meta-analysis on the chronic effects of exercise on depression in older adults by Melanie Mack, Claudia Voelcker-Rehage, Pinelopi S. Stavrinou, Iuliia Pavlova, Yaël Netz, Burcu Kömürcü Akik, Antonia Kaltsatou, Sandra Haider, Christoforos D. Giannaki, Arzu Erden, Andreea Badache, Michel Audiffren

“…Primary outcomes targeted changes in overall depression severity assessed with validated depression scales; secondary outcomes included changes in specific symptoms that are related to depression such as sleep quality, fatigue, anxiety, mood, apathy, weight changes, processing speed, and executive functions. These were measured from baseline until the end of the intervention. …”
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Occupational Therapy in Intensive Care by Hülya Yücel

“…Occupational therapy includes studies on daily living activities such as feeding, dressing, early mobilization, ambulation, and cognitive processes such as memory, attention, problem solving, and advanced executive functions such as performing multistep tasks. …”
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Joint Cognition: Thought Contagion and the Consequences of Cooperation when Sharing the Task of Random Sequence Generation. by John Nicholas Towse, Andrea Sarah Towse, Satoru Saito, Yukio Maehara, Akira Miyake

“…Generating random number sequences is a popular psychological task often used to measure executive functioning. We explore random generation under "joint cognition" instructions; pairs of participants take turns to compile a shared response sequence. …”
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An earned presence: studying the effect of multi-task improvisation systems on cognitive and learning capacity by Pil Hansen, Robert J. Oxoby

“…Our team set out to test the following hypothesis: Active participation in performance generating systems has a positive effect on advanced student performers’ working memory capacity, executive functions, and learning. Our results have implications, in particular, for understandings of embodied learning in the educational sector, however a perhaps more significant contribution is a better understanding of the measures and constructs needed to arrive at a more complex, yet operational concept of embodied learning and forward the experimental study of relationships between performing arts practices, cognition, and learning.…”
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Design and validation of a Primary Reading Proficiency Test (PCL-P) by Laura Trimiño-Pérez, Jone Hurtado-Reina, Erlantz Velasco, Alaitz Martinez

“…Based on a multilevel model (executive, functional, instrumental, and epistemic), the test content is evaluated by 5 pedagogical and linguistic experts (inter-judge agreement: Fleiss' Kappa was 0.88). …”
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Sistem peradilan adat dalam kesatuan-kesatuan masyarakat hukum adat desa pakraman di Bali by I Ketut Sudantra, Tjok Istri Putra Astiti, I Gusti Ngurah Dharma Laksana

“…The institution that executing function in desa pakraman (Kertha Desa) is customary chiefs (prajuru) together with other village institution elements in desa pakraman (paduluan, kepala dusun/kepala desa). …”
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Subregion-specific associations of the basal forebrain with sleep and cognition in Parkinson’s disease by Jung Hyun Lee, Han-Kyeol Kim, Sung Jun Ahn, Mina Park, Han Soo Yoo, Chul Hyoung Lyoo

“…The posterior part of the nucleus basalis Meynert (Ch4p) volume was positively associated with visuospatial, memory, and executive functions. The PSQI global score correlated positively with functional connectivity from the Ch4al to the posterior cingulate, inferior parietal, anterior temporal, and medial prefrontal cortices, which correspond to the default mode network. …”
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Neuropsychiatric Alterations in a Patient Diagnosed with Advanced Korsakoff’s Syndrome: Clinical Case of Low Incidence and Prevalence in Colombia by Carlos Alberto Hurtado Gonzalez, Sebastian Ospina Otalvaro, Carlos Steven Marmolejo Escobar, Karen Julieth Quebrada Mera, Pablo Miguel Arango de la Pava, Carlos Andres Clavijo, Lucely Ortega Bolaños, Narda Rátiva Hernández, Angelica Maria Vidal Rosero, Paola Andrea Gutierrez Lenis, Armando Lucumí, Jean Paul Cappellaro Sánchez, Angela Agudelo Zamorano, Juan Pablo Jacome, Valentina Herrera Montoya, Luis Miguel Saldarriaga, Carolina Prado Salcedo, Sharon Fabiana Alvarado Carranza, Carlos Andres Marín Hoyos, Juan Pablo Beltran Alomia, Juan Felipe Ayala Rico, Luigui Andres Torres Colorado, Julia Andrea Arias Díaz

“…Korsakoff’s syndrome (KS) is an insidious and progressive neuropsychiatric disorder that affects specific neurocognitive functioning, especially in tasks that require sustained attention, memory, executive functions, and visuospatial functioning. Usually, this disease generates neuropsychiatric complications that worsen the quality of life (QOL) of patients in the medium term. …”
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Low educational level effects on the performance of healthy adults on a Neuropsychological Protocol suggested by the Commission on Neuropsychology of the Liga Brasileira de Epileps... by Erich Belzunces dos Santos, Ivanda de Souza Silva Tudesco, Luis Otávio S.F. Caboclo, Elza Márcia T. Yacubian

“…CP correlated with schooling, especially executive functions (54.1% vs 36.2%) and language (52.9% vs 25.7%). …”
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Neural propensity for trait rumination in adolescents: A cross-sectional study with Voxel-Based Morphometry by Diane Joss, Anna O. Tierney, Kristina Pidvirny, Nigel M. Jaffe, Hannah Goodman, Nicholas J. Carson, Zev Schuman-Olivier, Christian A. Webb

“…We found higher trait rumination was associated with lower gray matter density in the left orbitofrontal cortex, inferior frontal gyrus, dorsolateral prefrontal gyrus, and bilateral temporal gyrus, which are involved in inhibitory control, language processing, executive functioning, and social cognitions, respectively. …”
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Verbal fluency tests reliability in a Brazilian multicentric study, ELSA-Brasil by Valéria Maria de Azeredo Passos, Luana Giatti, Sandhi Maria Barreto, Roberta Carvalho Figueiredo, Paulo Caramelli, Isabela Benseñor, Maria de Jesus Mendes da Fonseca, Nagela Valadão Cade, Alessandra Carvalho Goulart, Maria Angélica Nunes, Márcia Guimarães de Mello Alves, Ana Angélica Martins da Trindade

“…Verbal Fluency Tests (VFT) are commonly used to assess executive functions and language in clinical and epidemiological studies. …”
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Clinical validity of IntelliSpace Cognition digital assessment platform in mild cognitive impairment by Willem Huijbers, Nandor K. Pinter, Nandor K. Pinter, Mandy Spaltman, Mike Cornelis, Ben Schmand, Baraa Alnaji, Baraa Alnaji, Maxwell Yargeau, Sarah Harlock, Ryu Platinum Dorn, Ryu Platinum Dorn, Bela Ajtai, Erica S. Westphal, Gijs van Elswijk

“…After ranking the cognitive scores by effect size, we found that the memory score was the most impaired, followed by executive functioning. The Early AD/MCI Alzheimer's Cognitive Composite (EMACC) and Preclinical Alzheimer's Cognitive Composite (PACC) scores were constructed from the digital tests on Philips IntelliSpace Cognition. …”
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Associations of hemoglobin A1c with cognition reduced for long diabetes duration by Jeremy M. Silverman, James Schmeidler, Pearl G. Lee, Neil B. Alexander, Michal Schnaider Beeri, Elizabeth Guerrero‐Berroa, Rebecca K. West, Mary Sano, Martina Nabozny, Carolina Rodriguez Alvarez

“…Results The predicted interactions were significant for overall cognition and attention, but not executive functions/language and memory. Discussion Findings extend the Protected Survivor Model to a “young‐old” sample, from the very old. …”
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Assessment of language abilities and functionality in adults and elders with Down syndrome by Cláudia Lopes Carvalho, Orestes Vicente Forlenza, Marcia Radanovic

“…Conclusion Functional performance was associated with different linguistic tasks in the literate (verbal memory and executive functions) and non-literate (verbal memory and lexico-semantic process) groups.…”
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A clinical study on cognitive dysfunction in depressed patients by Karnik Kishore, Deepanjali Medhi

“…Different cognitive domains such as attention and concentration, psychomotor speed, executive functioning, and memory have been found to be implicated. …”
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Computer-based cognitive interventions in acquired brain injury: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. by Rodrigo Fernández López, Adoración Antolí

“…<h4>Results</h4>Random-effects meta-analyses showed an improvement of Visual and Verbal working memory, while other domains like Attention, Processing speed, Executive functions and Memory were not benefited by the interventions.…”
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The relationships between metacognitive aspects of daily activity performance and participation patterns: Older adults’ perspectives by Liron Lamash

“…They also reported more difficulties in executive functions (EF) than in memory and executive monitoring. …”
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Cognitive decline, dual sensory loss and the use of visual aids in elderly - A narrative review by Sourav Karmakar, Animesh Mondal, Pampa Bhowmick, Gaurav Kumar Bhardwaj

“…Along with motor dysfunction, impairments in visual memory, verbal fluency, and executive functions, as well as increased depressive symptoms, predicted worse Parkinsonian disability, highlighting the critical role of nonmotor factors such as cognitive and visual dysfunction, as well as depression, in disability, even in the early stages of Parkinsonian disability.…”
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